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CW75: Everybody Welcome!

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The concept of hospitality has changed down the centuries. For most of us today it conjures up shared meals with friends or the ‘hospitality industry’, hotels and restaurants – places where people ‘buy hospitality’. This latter picture is perhaps as far as you can get from the original meaning of hospitality. Hospitality is about our relationship with God and calls us to welcome and care for ‘those who are strangers, enemies, or distressed, without regard for reciprocation’.

CW75: A day out in the countryside

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People and the DALES is an award-winning outreach project delivered by local charity Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust (YDMT) which enables people from disadvantaged backgrounds to visit the Yorkshire Dales for health and well-being. One group leader working with refugees and asylum seekers in Blackburn and Darwen said:

‘Doctors should prescribe a dose of the countryside instead of anti-depressants, as being in the great outdoors is so good for people.’

CW75 Online Exclusive: An accessible welcome

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Having a parent who is a minister means I have grown up in and around churches for most of my life. I have been using a wheelchair for 12 years so thought I would share some of my observations. Obviously there are listed buildings which have limitations on what adaptions can be made but there are still things that can be done to help wheelchair users feel more comfortable visiting your building.

CW75 Online Exclusive: The Rural Tradition

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My father-in-law, an Ulsterman, was an enthusiast collector of books by AG Street. His collection of Street’s books now sits on my book shelves, and adds a bit of variety to the bible commentaries. AG Street was a Wiltshire born farmer who lived through the years of the depression in the 1930s, and found that he was able to supplement his meagre income by turning his hand to writing, and later broadcasting.

CW75 Online Exclusive: Church as guest

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What if the church were to see itself as a guest rather than a host?

CW75 Online Exclusive: Far too welcoming

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This document was passed to the editor by WikiChurchLeaks. Given the interest in fake news, we decided to throw caution to the wind and publish…

CW75 Online Exclusive: Getting stuck in

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Welcome on board! Can we learn from airline cabin crew?

CW75 Online Exclusive: Messy Church Southam

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As part of our Deanery Hope14 mission week, I was asked to organise a ‘Massive’ Messy Church, drawing together all the Messy Church teams (and others) from across the deanery to put on a central, joint event. This proved so successful, that we have done it twice a year since then!

CW75 Online Exclusive: Moor Church

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Having read Ephesians 3: 16-19 I asked the question, ‘So what links are there between these words and the tree we have just created?’ We were standing in a traditional barn, having just brought from the woodland on the farm some branches, twigs, leaves and heather to produce our own collage of a tree.