It's a Competitive Church
It’s A Competitive Church A Bishop said to me not too long ago, ‘Get off Twitter for a bit, it will do you a load of good. I gave it up weeks ago and it’s been fabulous'. Good advice perhaps but advice I declined and maybe in hindsight I should have done as he suggested, even it was just until the events of Holy Week’ had passed. I’ve never been the most confident of people and certainly not the most confident of priests and sadly over the last few days my confidence was wobbled by the wonderful and exuberant images from online ministries. Churches bursting at the seams, kids everywhere, flowers seemingly direct from Interflora’s finest florists in every crevice. I of course don’t begrudge such blossom and blooms, but as old mother inadequacy radiated once more from my brain cells, I felt a mixture of dissatisfaction and sadness by our own expressions of Easter and wondering what the future holds for churches like mine and priests like me. I don’t think my melanc...