Cash, camels and certainty It was described as ‘a googly,’ but it wasn’t a bowler helping us to retain the Ashes. It was a surprise question in Parliament that appeared to hit the mark. It was a great media moment, but it made me think again about Jesus’ solemn teaching. A question was put by...
Magazine Leader – January 2011 “Happy New Year!” How do you know whether this proves to be the case? Can you measure a nation’s happiness, or an individual’s wellbeing? Recent public debates have drawn attention to how measuring economic activity doesn’t deliver all that we need to know. After all, it’s argued, it doesn’t take...
Stone will host an unusual carol service this Friday when singers, musicians and shoppers will parade through town singing the appropriate carol outside each shop that took part in the giant Advent calendar competition. Singers will meet outside the Shelter Charity Shop on Lichfield Street on Christmas Eve at 9.30am and make their way through...
Stone’s giant Advent shop calendar reaches a climax next week when the town’s Big Issue saleswoman opens the final window on Christmas Eve. In the build-up to Christmas 24 shops, businesses and organisations have each decorated their shop on the theme of a carol, which will be unveiled on a different day in December, and...
Barry Lakin, a Friend of Mosty Lee Water Mill, was chosed to open the twelfth window in the Stone Advent Windows - at The Mill Restaurant. The excellent Nativity scene was prepared for The Mill by the Children of St. Domonic's First School, Stone. Some friends of The Mill and Christ Church gathered to see the opening at midday on Sunday, singing a rousing verse of...
