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Local Pastoral Ministers – the hidden frontline
Local Pastoral Ministers (LPMs) are a unique group of people quietly enriching our county by loving their neighbours with care and compassion. Offering tremendous support to the pastoral work of […]
A church setting up a company? Must be the Bodmin Way
When you think of company start-ups, you don’t naturally think of them in the context of church life. But that’s exactly what they’re doing in Bodmin. They have started Bodmin […]
Not just Christmas Carols but New Street Christmas Carols
Time moves quickly and never more so than at Christmas. Even the recent winds seem to be hurrying us along, adding to the sense of panic and worry that we […]
If the church really is in decline why bother with confirmation?
If the Church of England really is racing towards its decline, stopping only to scoop up a handful of older people, why did 30 people, including teenagers, choose to be […]
The Shelley-shaped holes she will leave behind after retirement
Shelley Porter has been with Truro Diocese since 2001 and when she announced her intention to retire, there was a ripple of disbelief. Shelley is so involved in so many […]
Have we abandoned compassion as the UN Rapporteur claims?
The UN’s rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Professor Philip Alston, has delivered a heart-breaking report on the impact of austerity on the UK, declaring that we have abandoned […]
We Will Remember Them
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in […]
Keeping Cornwall safe in the Home Guard
Roy Olver was 16 when war broke out. He was living and working on his family’s farm at Terras, just outside of St Stephens near St Austell, and remembers Mrs […]
The DAC – is it just an abbreviated bureaucratic hoop to jump through?
Managing a diocese inevitably involves jargon and a bewildering array of abbreviations, DAC, BDC, OFS, CMS, TMS to name a few. All of which can be intimidating and excluding. And […]
Rookie veterans create beautiful sculpture to commemorate WWI
Remember the story of former commando Patrick McWilliam and the stone sculpture project for the award-winning Peace Garden at St Pol de Leon? The plan was to gather a group […]
