St Peter’s, St Albans

St Peter’s Church in St Albans I found fairly uninteresting from a historical, though not an aesthetic point of view, for it is certainly an attractive building. It has a particular penchant for female leadership but it was the altar which most caught my attention. Although I do not consider the communion table to really be an altar (for nothing is offered upon it), St Peter's had a curious little diorama beneath it.

A leftover form Easter, no doubt, which someone had forgotten to clear away, or had not the heart to destroy a little artwork which some child had carefully and laboriously arranged. The scene shows figures approaching an empty tomb, while another beholds the risen Lord. I was pleased to see an affirmation of the Lord Jesus’ resurrection. Christianity is concerned with many things, but chiefly with life: new life, eternal life, and spiritual life. If ever we drift away from the Christ's cross and resurrection, we drift away from the gospel itself.

"Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.” Acts 17:30-31, NKJV