Here are some interesting links you my like to explore (when you've finished looking at our pages of course). Click any link to follow it.

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Local Churches

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Charities we support

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A site for New Christians

The site offers a place to explore the story of Jesus, pray, discuss,  be entertained and discover how Jesus is understood, followed, interpreted and worshipped. Rejesus.co.uk encourages visitors to take a fresh look at Jesus and to make a step or two of faith.

Rejesus.co.uk has been designed for people who are curious about Jesus or interested in exploring faith (but who are not keen to attend a church or a course). It is a resource for churches and Christians to use in their witness, contacts and publicity – using the internet to connect people with issues of faith and spirituality

Others

Some recommended Sites

http://www.christiantopics.com/

This site offers an extensive directory of online Christian articles, essays, outlines and studies.  It is a compilation of resources, grouped under subject headings. If you’re interested in “Music”, “Worship”, “Humour” or perhaps “Hermeneutics”, “Heresy” & “Apostasy” you’ll find them all listed at this site.  In fact there are more than 150 topics to choose from.

The articles I have read so far have been thought provoking and informative and balanced to give different sides of an argument.  I think this site is excellent and recommend web users to try it for themselves.

Nominated by: Margaret Evans

Sacred Space

http://www.jesuit.ie/prayer/

This is a really clever attempt to adapt Ignatian meditation techniques to worship and prayer in front of a computer. It’s a simple idea, well developed. It’s a “deep” site, with a simple interface, alongside more information for those who need support, and it's regularly updated.

Try following through one of the meditations at the computer.

Anglicans Online

http://anglicansonline.org/

This is by far the best worldwide Anglican site, and is a good place to browse to get a feel of what is possible on the Internet. Note that’s an unofficial site, produced by interested lay people.  It has a clear focus, simple, intuitive navigation, it looks good, and again it’s regularly updated.

 There is a good community sense created by the weekly introductory letter. 

Oremus 

http://www.oremus.org/

This has been running for several years, and is an attempt to help people to pray the Daily Office by emailing a short office to people. There are daily Bible study resources, and lists of people to pray for etc. It’s simple, it meets a real need: providing materials for prayer and Scripture reading, and it’s maintained every day. In some ways, the site is very basic, but the point is it works.

The Virtual Church

http://www.zchurch.com

Christian Century, an influential American religious weekly, called zchurch “one of the most professional virtual websites”. It greets you with a really cheesy map of a perfect American town—a virtual place. Each cartoon house may be clicked, taking the visitor to “interactive worship”, email cards, marriage counselling, prayer requests, chat rooms etc. Click on the river to find out if you can be baptized! (I think this is really really cheesy)

The most interesting part is virtual worship (click on the Church), which allows you to participate in last Sunday’s service, along with hymn words, Bible readings etc. This needs massive bandwidth—it just doesn’t work on all computers—but I hope that you can participate. 

Grace Cathedral

http://www.gracecathedral.org/body.shtml

This is the very slick website of the Anglican Cathedral in San Francisco. It aims to supplement their mission, rather than replace it, but there is a lot of good material.

Try listening to one of Dean Jones’ sermons in RealAudio. (He is known as one of the best preachers in the Episcopal Church.)

The Labyrinth Project aims to engage the New Ager in San Francisco, providing a way into Christianity that feels safe.

Smart Ministry

http://www.smartministry.com/

Graham Kendrick Website

Graham Kendrick is one of the nations favourite Christian Songwriters. His song “Shine Jesus Shine” is apparently the UK’s most popular contemporary worship song and is frequently featured on “Songs Of Praise”.  Last Easter we enjoyed several Graham Kendrick songs when we were invited to worship with the Lower Earley Baptists. 

There is now a website for fans of Graham Kendrick at

www.GrahamKendrick.co.uk

 This interestingly coloured site has a biography and pictures of Graham and also information on the Ichthus Christian Fellowship and March for Jesus.  There are also lyrics and background stories to some of the songs.  The website is maintained by the publisher ‘make way music’ so there are frequent opportunities to order cds or view their current catalogue.

The Monastery of Christ in the Desert

The Monastery of Christ in the Desert is the home of a community of monks in New Mexico, who live according to the Rule of St. Benedict. Their gently colourful website shows their expertise at working with electronic illuminated script. I particularly liked the “Wisdom from the earliest Christian Monks” and the piece on “Angels”. Find them at www.christdesert.org/pax.html

 Douai Abbey

Douai Abbey   is closer to home at Woolhampton, just outside Reading.

A very interesting and comprehensive website with sections on monastic life, the Rule of St Benedict, concerts, courses and much more.  There are ‘Virtual Tours’ of the beautiful buildings and grounds. It looks such a wonderful place for a retreat. Visit Douai Abbey at www.members.aol.com/douaiweb