Archive for June 2005

Being big enough to say sorry

Jun 23rd, 2005 | By | Category: Ministry

This weekend marks the anniversary of me going to a small country parish. I spent seven years there.

One of the problems of being in a parish of 90 families with the same people being in church 52 Sundays of the year, as many of them were, was finding something fresh to say every Sunday. On one hand there was a danger of being bland and saying nothing, on the other there was the danger that, if one said anything challenging or provoking, someone would take offence and there would …