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  • Mon, 20 May
    Peter said: God, who knows human hearts, showed that he accepts all people by giving the Holy Spirit to all who believe. (Acts 15:5-12)
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Welcome to the Church of Our Lady Saint Mary South Creake

Visitors to this website, just like our real visitors, come for many different reasons and with differing levels of knowledge about the Christian faith, about church buildings and church history. We have tried to design the site so, whoever you are and whatever your needs, you will find the information you want.

St Mary's from the east

We have therefore quite deliberately built the site with two starting points. If you know your Common Worship from your Book of Common Prayer, your Clerestory from your Chancel and your Anglo-Catholic from your Evangelical, go to About us.

And if that sounds like gobbledygook but you want to know more about our beautiful church and why we love it, go to Visitors.

We also have a FAQs page where we answer, or attempt to answer, some of the more commonly asked questions about our Church and our Christian faith.

But if none of those are right for you, maybe we are being too clever so just dive right in.

 

Church of England News

What's on at St Mary's
Nick Baines's Blog
Musings of a restless bishop
  • Sandford St Martin Awards
    The annual Sandford St Martin Awards (for excellence in religious broadcasting) will be presented at Lambeth Palace on Monday 3 June 2013. The shortlisting was not easy this year and the quality of submitted radio and television programmes was very high. A nice problem to have. Here's the list: TELEVISON NOMINEES ANGELIC VOICES: The Choristers […]
  • Religious broadcasting (again)
    I published a piece in yesterday's Guardian Media Blog on religious broadcasting. The comments that follow on the Guardian site are predictable, if not very rational. Here's the text: Mention the words “religious broadcasting” in polite company and you can feel the slightly embarrassed echoes of Songs of Praise and Thought for the Day float […]
  • Compassion
    Yesterday the Guardian published a short blog post on religious broadcasting, so I guess I should post this. This is the text of this morning's Pause for Thought on the excellent BBC Radio 2 Chris Evans Show. I thought of doing something on the agonising banality of Eurovision, but just couldn't muster the enthusiasm. (I […]
Thinking Anglicans
  • More data on Religion from the 2011 Census
    British Religion In Numbers reports on 2011 Census Detailed Characteristics for England and Wales: On 16 May 2013 the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published the first outputs from the third wave of results (Release 3.1) from the 2011 census...
  • opinion
    Ruth Cartwright explains in the Guardian Why I’m leaving social work to become a vicar. Martin Vander Weyer of the Spectator has been talking to Richard Chartres: Bishop of London Richard Chartres on bankers, Occupy and Justin Welby. Nick Baines...
  • New clauses and amendments to Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill
    The updated list of new clauses and amendments to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, arranged in the order in which they will be considered next week, is available here as a PDF file. Towards the end of the file...