How to use editorial to support faith at home
Free, professionally written articles for you to share in parish magazines, on your website, social media accounts or newsletter
MAINTAINING CONTACT WITH FAMILIES AFTER a baptism is crucial to supporting them in the ongoing journey. One way to reach them might be through your parish magazine, website, social media accounts or e-newsletter to publicise special services, or simply offer fun ways of supporting a child’s faith at home.
The professionally-written pieces given under the headings below are available to share and use in these ways. The articles are carefully edited to ensure suitability for the intended readership – families with young children. Contributors are the Revd Ally Barrett and Margaret Pritchard-Houston, both experienced writers, well-known and respected in Christian publishing.
There is no charge for using this editorial – the content is a free gift, but check the terms of use below.
Articles to share during Spring, especially at Easter
Spring is full of opportunities to get together and celebrate lots of events at home and in church, including Mother’s Day and Easter.
Springtime fun
Mother’s Day in your church
Mother’s Day blessings
Marking Good Friday
Your church at Easter
Easter celebrations
Articles to share during Summer
Inspiring ideas to help families remember God in their summer fun, rest, holidays and journeys.
Fruits that are special
Gorgeous green
Love where you live
Outdoor fun
Stop and smell the roses
Sun, sea and sand
We’re going on a journey
Father’s day blessings
Articles to share during Autumn
Beautiful Autumn is a season of Harvest, Hallowe’en, remembering loved ones and thanking God for all that we have.
Share a little light
Love, loss and remembering
Prayer with poppies
Out and about
Learning to say thank you
Saying thank you for food
Giving generously
School blessings
Articles to share during Winter, especially at Christmas
Articles to share at any time of the year
Practicalities
How to extract text from web pages for use in printed materials
- Open the web page you want to copy.
- Drag your cursor over the text of the page to select it, (don’t worry if you can’t avoid selecting images too).
- Right click and choose ‘copy’ from the menu, or, choose ‘copy’ from the ‘Edit’ menu at the top of your screen.
- Open Notes, OneNote or a similar note-taking app and paste the text there – this will clear out most of the formatting and any images that you may have selected from the web page.
- Select all the text again, convert it all to a standard body text – this should remove any remaining formatting. You can now copy and paste this ‘clean’ text into your usual publishing software and re-format it as you wish.
Conditions of using the free content for families
We’re delighted you’d like to use the ready-made content listed above and share it more widely with your contacts.
The following information outlines how you may share the content in your own parish publications if you would like to. There is no charge – the content is a free gift.
- Feel free to link to the content from your website, social media account or via an e-newsletter if you have one.
- If you convert the text of the content for use in a printed parish magazine or community newsletter, please credit the source of the content as follows: ‘Article taken from churchofengland.org/christenings with permission.’
- If you edit the article, please add ‘Reproduced with edits.’ Please keep edits to a minimum in order to retain the tone of voice and language that has been carefully thought-through for these articles. Edits might include adding your church’s service dates, someone’s contact details, details of a related event, or removing text that includes hyperlinks, videos and other material that can’t be viewed in print media.
- If you share content on social media, or link to it from your website or e-newsletter, there is no need to add a credit.
