Tag: events

  • Recycled churches

    In the UK, church attendance has been in decline for decades, possibly a century. Almost nobody I know, including myself, go to church for it’s intended purpose. Our villages, towns and cities are peppered with thousands of churches. Many of them are very old, expensive to maintain and trying to find a place in a world in which their old role has been all but washed away. This past week I attended two events. One was a ‘festival of light’, and the other was a group of Armenian musicians. Both events took place in churches. Both were remarkable. One of…