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This lovely song by Matt Redman reminds me of something I read years ago about worship. While we can think of it as a performance for the benefit of the congregation, the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard suggested that, if worship is a performance, then God is the audience of worship, the congre...

Good to hear! God never stops surprising us!

I hope everything went well, Ernie.

I found this lovely video of former boy soprano Aled Jones and his son singing ‘The Lord’s My Shepherd’ very uplifting.

Whar do others think ? I think stay online. Good plan, Joyce! :thumbs: As far as i can see, getting the average church ready for 'socially distanced' services is extremely difficult. Most Dioceses are assuring vicars they are under no pressure to go back quickly. I can understand some people's keen...

The Diocese of Oxford did an experiment with live streaming of services, which I think Joyce has mentioned above. Once aspect of this was the screening of a local service in care homes, followed by communion by extension being taken straight out to them, to give the nearest possible experience of be...

The offline church I belong to is starting to grapple with what returning to the church building will look like. It doesn't seem likely, in a very old village church building, that we're going to be able to return to anything like the previous pattern of services, with people at the main morning ser...

Thanks, Pam. I didn't know the book was out. Good for Tim ! I remember him well. I wonder if for the next edition he'll need to add a chapter about what's happening all over the country now ? I suppose it's not exactly 'Online Church', though, more a mere matter of hundreds,possibly thousands, of c...

Thanks for the mention, Joyce! The inspiration for the book was the number of times we were asked for ideas by students at different levels. We also had a member, Tim Hutchings, who wrote his PhD about online church, for which he conducted interviews with many members of online churches. Tim has now...

Archbishop Justin Welby leads a short service of Night Prayer for Wednesday during the Easter Season, recorded in March this year in the chapel of Lambeth Palace. With music from St Martin's Voices.

Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day’s journey away. When they had entered the city, they went to the room upstairs where they were staying, Peter, and John, and James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son ...

The Bible tells us: After his suffering he presented himself alive to them by many convincing proofs, appearing to them over the course of forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. While staying with them, he ordered them not to leave Jerusalem, but to wait there for the promise of the Fathe...

Today, we celebrate Jesus' ascension into Heaven on the 40th day after his resurrection. The feast has been celebrated 40 days after Easter in both Eastern and Western Christianity since the 4th century. Prior to that time, the Ascension was commemorated as a part of the celebration of the descent o...

Fascinating memories! Thank you for sharing some of your families' histories. My maternal grandpa and uncle were miners, which was a reserved occupation, so they weren't called up. My father went into the RAF and trained as a navigator, but he didn't get to fly very often. My mother took the opportu...

I find the creation of the video and the song itself - both the results of people using their gifts for the benefit of others - very uplifting!

A beautiful sung blessing from churches across the UK.

Thank you, Caroline!

A friend posted this on Facebook:

This is amazing!