Moving: Gareth Lewis
Adrian Reynolds
In days of short pastorates and heavy-handed shepherding, it’s good to rejoice in a long and fruitful ministry. Gareth Lewis, senior minister of Christchurch Harpenden and a long-time director of en retires from his ministry in Hertfordshire this month after 31 years of service.
In those years the church has grown considerably and blessed the wider Christian world extensively, especially through the training up and sending out of men and women into Christian service, whether at home or abroad.
How honest are you before God and other people?
As I write, much of the news is dominated by Trump and Ukraine. Of course it is. But just behind these another story rumbles on. It’s about the enhanced CVs of some our politicians.
Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor, has come unstuck in a number of ways. The latest of these is her entry in Who’s Who where she says she contributed to a prestigious economic journal. It turns out that she did indeed contribute to an economic journal: just not that one, but one with a similar sounding title. Sinister? Or simple error?