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Continue reading →: Mid-faith CrisisI recently received a trial copy of a magazine, Premier Christianity, which had in it an article by an author, Nick Page. Nick has written over 70 books, mainly on religious topics. I also had the pleasure of meeting and chatting to him recently at the annual Congregational Federation conference, where he…
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Continue reading →: Credo article
This is the text of my latest ‘Credo’ article which appeared in the Newark Advertiser on Thursday 29 June. Just 4 weeks ago I retired following a career of 39 years in Local Government. As people at work heard about my imminent departure (at a relatively early age) almost…
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Continue reading →: Mencap
On Wednesday 28 June Newark Mencap held a coffee afternoon in our church hall. Mencap have hired out our Church Hall from Monday to Thursday for the last couple of years to run their ‘Avenue Programme’ for people with learning disabilities. The hall was full to overflowing with the regular attendees,…
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Continue reading →: Presidential Visit
Today we were delighted to have as our preacher Rev. Paul Davis, who is the current President of the Congregational Federation. Paul spoke about his life in medicine before he trained to be a minister, and gave us some interesting personal insights. He preached about Nicodemus, and how in John’s…
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Continue reading →: Facebook
The church now has a Facebook page. Go to https://www.facebook.com/NewarkCongregational/ or just follow the link from the sidebar on any page of the website. We hope you find it interesting and useful. Mark and Julie
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Continue reading →: Credo
Below is an article that I wrote for the ‘Credo’ column in the Newark Advertiser. It appeared in the 24 February 2017 edition. We are living in interesting times, at least as far as politics is concerned. In this country we are still coming to terms with what Brexit…
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Continue reading →: Happy New Year
Well wasn’t 2016 an interesting year? During the year we seemed to lose a lot of very well known people, Terry Wogan, David Bowie, Victoria Wood, Muhammed Ali – the list could go on and on. The world is poorer for their passing. But it was in the world of…
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Continue reading →: Credo
This is the text of my latest Credo column for the Newark Advertiser which appeared in this week’s edition Mark Advent is at hand, which means Christmas can’t be far away. It’s easy to miss out the Advent season in the headlong rush towards the 25th of December. I guess…
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Continue reading →: Carol Concert
Our annual Carol Concert is being held in the church on Monday 05 December 2016 at 7 p.m. It will feature a performance by Just Sing! – Newark’s Community Choir – which will sing three numbers and there will be several well known Christmas Carols for the audience to join…
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Continue reading →: The Reith Lectures
Yesterday I listened to this year’s first Reith Lecture by Kwame Anthony Appiah. The lecture series is about identity, and the first lecture concentrated on religious identity. Appiah made some very interesting points about the nature of religion and belief, about the relationships between different faiths and the role and…
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