Author: David Stanford

People throughout history have always wanted to shut up other people who say things they do not like or do not agree with. I guess it is a human thing!…

Our Christmas message this year was that in Jesus Christ there is real, solid hope. God has reached out to us whoever we are to give us firm ground to…

An unusual year, unusual Christmas! We'd love you to join us online this Christmas. All our Christmas services are going to be online livestreams this year - but that means…

We're very glad that from this coming Sunday (27th September) we shall be taking our first small steps towards meeting together again. It will all be rather different, what with…

A lot of us are hopeful that soon we'll be meeting together again as a church. We've taken the decision that as things currently stand it would not be best…

So here we are trapped in our own homes. The old days when we used to decide what we wanted to do and where we wanted to go without recourse…

There are a lot of words that could be used to describe the current crisis which is unfolding around the world. There is one right away - "crisis". We will…

This short blog makes a powerful point. Easter is really important for all sorts of reasons, and here is another one. https://www.thegoodbook.co.uk/blog/interestingthoughts/2019/02/15/what-we-learn-about-jesus-through-rio-ferdinands-w

This is a fascinating interview with a guy who was really glad to find atheism, and to be free to live his life how he wanted. But then he started…

There is so much moral confusion in our culture. Here is an interesting blog post which highlights the fact that the recent Irish referendum result has been widely celebrated despite…