Welcome to Rule of Life

Join Archdeacon Simon in this year’s Summer Challenge reading the book of Psalms together. Sign up to this course and you will receive weekly emails encouraging you in your reading. The Psalms are the hymnbook and the prayerbook of the Temple, and of the Church. In these 150 songs the Psalmist explores the whole range of human experience, with all its highs and lows, of human life lived in the presence of God, and sometimes the experience of the apparent absence of God too. Find out more about the challenge and how you can get involved.

We have produced some resources to help children's groups from 3 to 11 take part in the Bring One Friend challenge

This year we are challenging every member of every congregation to Bring One Friend to an advent, Christmas or epiphany service. This course helps you go step by step through the challenge as together we build a bigger church by bringing one friend.

As well as following the Bishop's summer reading challenge you may like to encourage your church's young people to follow their own version with this challenge designed by Suzanne Finch, from Christ Church Newburgh and St James Westhead.

Harry Wood, team vicar in the St Helens Town Centre Team, responds to Psalm 143

Archdeacon Simon introduces the final week of our Summer Reading Challenge

Bec Hill, St Mellitus ordinand based at St Bartholomew’s Roby, responds to Psalm 139 and the five things she thinks this says about God.

Archdeacon Simon reflects on Psalm 121 and how it can be seen as a response to Psalm 23.