From the daily archives:

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

The end of Christian bookshops?

November 17, 2009

After the debacle that was the Brewer brothers’ rape and pillage of the SPCK chain of bookshops, the Wesley Owen chain now looks to be heading towards the event horizon of the recession’s black hole. Mouse has the details. He also notes Phil Groom’s optimistic hope of a buy out.
It’s probably worth noting that in [...]

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Interceding with the beatitudes

November 17, 2009

Here’s a set of bidding prayers based on the beatitudes with an Advent feel to them. On first use the response was replaced with a sung Taizé Kyrie. They are formal and meditative, and follow the structure of Matthew’s text.
Let us pray for all God’s church,
that we in our place and time,
may help people know [...]

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