Today’s reading (Matthew 9:9-13) looks at the calling of Matthew (Levi), a tax collector who heeded the call to follow Jesus. As a tax collector, he was despised and disliked; religious people often disliked Jesus because he associated with ‘tax collectors and...

Although it's still March, we took time last night to celebrate the April birthday of a girl who is 'two, nearly three!'

This week’s Lent theme is ‘sacrificing’. ‘Sacrifice’ is a word laden with preconceived ideas, but it is at the heart of the Christian faith. A sacrificial life, says Sally Welch, ‘is one which offers to God all the trials as well as the joys, all the challenges as...