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Dear Editor,

In September’s en you helpfully drew attention to developments in Hong Kong, explaining that this may result in some Christians using rights granted by the UK government to settle here.

Dear Editor,

Since reading the Independent Inquiry into the Child Sexual Abuse in Cof E churches, I became aware of how much the report mirrored my daughter’s experience. The difference was that this happened in an evangelical church. Therefore, I believe this report is valuable for all churches and needs to be read thoughtfully.

Dear Editor,

I would like to ask readers to pray for the Highbury Centre at 22-26 Aberdeen Park, London N5. Since 1893 it has been a place of welcome for missionaries and Christian friends from all over the world, who appreciated its Christian ethos.

Dear Editor,

I write in response to the article ‘Living with difference’ in the July issue of en.

Dear Editor,

Several of the Christian organisations, missions and churches which I support or belong to include in their regular mailing a Prayer Diary, with valuable topics and news for every day of the year.

Dear en,

Rachel Jones’ article (‘Is this how intro-verts feel when life is normal?’) immediately caught my eye. May I put in a plea that The Good Book Company seriously consider a book on personality types and the implica-tions for how we do church and discipleship? While the issue is not openly addressed in Scripture, it is perhaps implicit. Take, for example, Peter and John and their witness in Acts 3. All the action centres around Peter (the extrovert?) while John (the introvert?) is not reported as saying a word! And if it is indeed the case that behind the Gospel of Mark (fast-moving, action-packed) is Peter, then the contrast with John’s more thought-ful, intimate Gospel is telling. Squeezing introverts into an extrovert mould in terms of worship, fellowship and mission may be doing the gospel a disservice, so a quiet, thoughtful, biblical appraisal may be just the ticket! ; )

Dear Sir,

It was heartwarming to read of Robert Stivey’s attempt to re-open some of the chapels in the valleys of South Wales (en January, front page).

Dear Sir,

Every January something pops through my letterbox to bring a shaft of light into these dark days. The CofE authorities send me a little advertising puff about the annual Lent Course provided by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. For years this has given me a laugh, although, to use a phrase of my mother’s, it’s too daft to laugh at. All the usual politically-correct nostrums cast in the Noddy language with which the church patronises and torments us to death. But suddenly this booklet isn’t funny anymore.