"For many, ‘church’ means just the opposite of the negative image. It’s is a place of welcome and laughter, of healing and hope, of friends and family and justice and new life. It’s where the homeless drop in for a bowl of soup, and the elderly for someone to chat to. It’s where one group is working to help drug addicts, and another to campaign for global justice… No church is like this all the time. But a remarkable amount of churches are partly like that for quite a lot of the time."