Easter and Holy Week

Service times for Holy Week are advertised on our new parish website www.salcombechurch.co.uk Its very basic at the moment and is just a single page. The big service is going to be Easter 10am and we are looking forward to welcoming lots of visitors, especially families and children. Afterwards there is a great big easter egg hunt.

County Council Prayers Ban

According to the Western Morning News 12th March - front page - NALC has asked Devon County council to ban prayers at the start of meeting. They apparently could fall foul of the Human Rights Act and the Race Discrimination Act. NALC are worried of a potential challenge in the courts.

Are these people COMPLETLY bonkers? A UK survey done last year concluded the vast majority of other faiths in Britain are more than happy that prayers are said - even though they are Christian. In fact the report implied that people of other religions wanted to urge Christians to be more vocal and be more assertive. They were not offended by prayers, Christmas, Easter, Whitsun, crosses, crucifixes, church bells, etc, etc. Rather, they got comfort that they were in a society with a religious heritage.

Who is really complaining about this? I suspect its a small group of politically correct pen-pushers who are keen to marginalise the Christian faith. You wonder, did they have a bad experience at Sunday School all those years ago?