I decided an update was long overdue! It is, as they say, all systems go for the conference in northern Uganda in early September. Things are really coming together now: my tickets are booked and I have my visa; the conference centre and accommodation in Adjumani is booked and the programme has, more or less,…
Here’s the latest post in my series on church leadership Leadership Roles As we continue to look at church leadership structures and roles it becomes more and more clear to me that tradition carries more weight than the clear teaching of Scripture. How right the 19th century Swiss Reformation Historian J H Merle d’Aubigne was when he is reputed to have said…
Recently I had an all-too rare but most welcome experience in a church I was visiting. For about 5 minutes before the service actually began, there was complete and total silence in the building, broken only by the sound of a few people entering quietly. It was such a refreshing change from the noise that…
