Alun Brookfield

Editor of Ministry Today


On Kidney Stones & Ministry (Issue 53)

In February 2011, the author was rushed to hospital in sudden and severe pain. It turned out to be a medim-sized kidney stone on the move. These are his reflections penned a week later (the stone took another two weeks to pass).

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The Violence of Language (Issue 50)

(This article began life as a sermon for Remembrance Sunday 2010. Further reflection led the author to realise that, with a little extra work, it might be of interest to Ministry Today readers) It would be easy to believe that we live in extraordinarily violent times. We don’t, of course, ...

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Editorial (Issue 50)

In almost every previous edition of Ministry Today, the Editorial has been written by our founder and Chairman, the Revd Dr Paul Beasley-Murray. On this occasion, the 50th edition of Ministry Today, which happily coincides with Paul’s 40th anniversary of ordination, it is my privilege to pay tribute to him. ...

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Changes in Attitudes to Death & Dying (Issue 47)

Funerals are strange events, and becoming stranger, as the general population increasingly lose their connection with the Christian faith. As a vague Christian recollection becomes increasing mingled with personal philosophies and pre-Christian superstition and mysticism, the demands on a Christian leader become ever more complex as we seek to steer ...

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