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WE JUST MISSED IT! Tarnation. We just missed out on attending the International Christian Retail Show, as mentioned in my last blog post. It took place on July 13-17 2008 at Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Florida. From the website : "You need to be at the International Christian Retail...

This week I schlepped all the way down to Derbyshire (go figure), to where the Diocese of Ripon and Leeds were having their annual conference. (I think it's held so far away so that vicars can put in whopping great petrol expense claims, and thereby fund impressive new collections of hassocks and...

If you get tired of your church, you might like to try going to church elsewhere. Trouble is, there are several objections to this sort of practice. Firstly, we're discouraged from 'church-hopping'. If our church isn't right, we should try fixing it from within - not just abandon it....

Isn't it extraordinary? The Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is subject to the - wait for it - Port of Seattle's Holiday Decorations Advisory Committee. Don't people in Seattle have enough to think about? Well, apparently the various religious groups there have been keeping them busy...

Many churches give themselves some kind of tagline, but St Leonard's in Hythe, England, has one which is particularly appealing: 'The church with the bones'. Apparently, at some point between the 13th and 15th centuries, they started filling the crypt with bits of dead people - the bones...

Can this really be true? Here's a big project I stumbled across on the interweb: The Nazareth Cross. 'They' (The Nazareth Cross Foundation) want to build the world’s largest cross, 60m high, containing a 'magnificent church' in its center - 15 stories high, with over 4,500 square...