Before I even get to talking about the sessions, one interesting point to discuss about the Christian New Media conference is that they actively encouraged people to tweet about the sessions and the conference. This seemed pretty successful such that people unable to attend the conference could keep up with what was going on. Indeed… Continue Reading
Reading through the newly published Sonning Parish Profile includes one thing I didn’t know – the church owns the local pub! I wonder if that means the Vicar and Churchwardens get free drinks?… Continue Reading
I’ve blogged from time to time about politics within the Church, but every so often, even at a local level, village politics and St James come into contact. In the past it’s been in relation to things like the villages memorial oaks being on church, rather than public land, and occasionally the Parish Council will… Continue Reading
I’ve just had one of those evenings where nobody knows what to do, but people turn to me because I’m the Churchwarden! When I turned up at choir practice the kids were still over in the Parish Centre on their break, so I went into the church, and there was a small creature in the… Continue Reading
With my Churchwarden hat on there was a good little bit of news from the Budget today – the news that although the basic rate of income tax will be cut from 22% to 20% on April 6th (which was announced last year), they are now not going to cut the rate at which Gift… Continue Reading