One person’s staycation is another person’s vacation.  You may be choosing to stay home and enjoy your city, but, depending on where you live, you may find that there are plenty of tourists who are visiting your city as well.
The Church of England, hoping to get in on the staycation trend, has launched a new Church of England Staycation web service to encourage locals to put churches and cathedrals in their stay at home travel plans.  Churches and cathedrals can provide a bit of sacred space, but they are also wonderful sources as museums, art galleries, architectural sites, history, and …read more

Recently the Church of England released a new publication titled Growing Together. It’s a short book (and course, I think) designed to help new couples along with new marriage.
The whole idea has me thinking about premarital counseling. Did you have any counseling before you got married? It’s pretty standard around these parts if you want a church wedding, particularly in an evangelical church. Kerri and I were more than willing to go through the sessions with our pastor. We got married in the church we were attending. Our only disappointment was that the pastor we had asked to perform …read more