I have spent the past couple of days in Beverley, largely admiring the beautiful church buildings there and in Howden. Both Beverley and Howden have minsters as their parish churches, a minster being a church that was built originally in connection with a monastery....

March is clearly a good month for birthdays! We had three to celebrate on Sunday.    

Garry continued his series on 'Looking For Heroes' last night, studying Matt 5:10 which talks about being blessed when we face persecution. Once more, we saw again how Jesus's teaching turns the world's thinking upside down, for usually we shy away from persecution...