Broadway Baptist Church

When Max was a little over a year old, he fell down the stairs. He’d only just learnt to walk, and we hadn’t got round to installing the stair gates yet. It was one of those split-second incidents, that happened in slow motion. Having very briefly nipped upstairs, leaving him safely in the living room (or so I thought), Max had managed to navigate his way, stealth-like, half-way up the stairs. I came down to find him turning around and…

This Easter saw Broadway run its first (in a VERY long time) Holiday Club. After talking about it on and off for a few years, Emma stumbled across The Restoration Station. The Restoration Station was created by Scripture Union and has all the scripts, drama, videos, games, group work, work books, everything you could possibly need, written out for you. With a core team of 4, we set to work figuring out how we could run The Restoration Station, what…

Storm-saved we were, and sheltered now at last;proclaimed our rights through years to come; grew ways glad and great,commodious; a place where justice flourished free and fast;beguiled our bright-born ones to singing halls and happy fate. He came wind-dinted, shrived by weary sorrow, nor might,nor power, nor fine-filigreed certainties in his dirty handsbut a babbler to the last and baffled us with cant; lightfell lustreless, breath-beaten dreams and songs of other lands. Called our good lives lackey, simulacrum, engorged;dared to…

This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. John 15:12 I heard a comment recently in relation to some Christians filling a need in the community that went something like “help, but without the religious involvement, would be good”, and something in me got a little bit cross, if I’m honest. Why are some people willing to accept help, but with conditions? It got me thinking, if “religious” people had not stepped in…