Life of Wiley

At the suggestion of Dave Warnock, I’ve created a Frappr map of UK Methodists. If you fall into this category of people belonging to the world then please go ahead and add yourself or your church.

An interesting column from Madelaine Bunting in the Guardian Unlimited regarding Richard Dawkins’ programme on Channel 4, The Root of all Evil Thanks to Nigel Coke-Woods for the link.

On Sunday I was preaching at Abbots Langley Methodist Church. This Sunday, the first after Epiphany, is usually set up to talk about the baptism of Christ and this was indeed one of the set lessons for the day. However, when I looked at all the lectionary readings together the one characteristic that came through [...]

Yesterday marked the beginning of One World Week. I encourage you to take a look at their list of 40 promises (PDF) and promise yourself that you’ll do at least one of them. I used this in the service that I preached (PDF) yesterday at Kings Langley Methodist Church.

Last night, as I was drifting off to sleep, I was wondering how it was possible to make Ajax-based web services accessible in the sense of making them friendly to screen readers. It may be that this is very straightforward as I haven’t researched the matter yet. But I was thinking about this because of [...]

Yesterday I preached for the first time in about 16 months as I’d taken a sabbatical to give more time to the children. I’m glad to be back preaching, I’d forgotten how much I enjoyed it (and how exhausting it is). Yesterday’s service was at Abbots Langley Methodist Church with a congregation of about 2 [...]

Last Sunday we attended our church review to discuss where we felt the church ought to be going. It was good to look back over the last 5 years and see where we have grown as a church (although some of the things that were brought up as growth were really status quo). However, we [...]

We’ve been put in a bit of a quandry in relation to our church just recently. We’ve been attending Trinity for over 10 years now and found the church to be very warm and welcoming. Louise and I were both brought up in the Methodist tradition and are comfortable with its social theology and doctrines, [...]

On Sunday I had the privilege of participating in worship lead by one of Local Preachers on trial. The theme for the service was faith and he gave a great illustration for the benefit of the children in the service at the beginning talking about the hazel tree in his garden. Sadly, his confidence let [...]

It seems to have been quite a while since we managed to get to a service at our church together as a family. We managed it this Sunday for our Harvest Festival. Our Minister Rev. Will Hunter lead the worship and used the Parable of the Sower for the basis of the service. As it [...]