Good in Parts

Yesterday was a looong day which began at 7.30 with Morning Prayer before the 8.00 Eucharist, and ended in the pub after some wonderful peac...

I've just been listening, in a desultory, day-off sort of way, to Women's Hour , where they were having a phone- in on loneliness. N...

Right, all you kind souls who've been enquiring as to the success or otherwise of "Into the Wilderness". In the cold light of ...

No doubt seasoned alt. worshippers could have warned me about this, but I'm sure I didn't ignore a crucial para in the books nor e...

Not a reference to dearly beloved C.S. Lewis, great though he is, but to my experience as Deacon at the Eucharist this morning. As usual I r...

Yesterday evening my husband came home with a sandpit...yes, a sandpit ...which he'd spotted on a skip while visiting a customer. Even ...

No..not a new kind of cocktail, nor even an ice-cream sundae, but the heading for this week's session with the Youth Group. A long long ...

Thanks to Ian for this, which feels scarily close to the likely reaction of most of the people here. You think I'm joking??

Clearly God knew what He was doing when He sent me that little boy this morning. This evening featured my monthly session at the local care ...

.... when you know for sure why you are doing this job. Curate to small boy at altar rail "May Jesus bless you today and every day. He ...

Every so often, liturgy really seems to get it right and achieve what it describes....This evening I heard again and again "Remember, y...

I spent yesterday, along with many others, at a pre-Lent Quiet Day in the Cathedral, led by + Stephen Cottrell. ...His theme "A Pastora...

In my comments box below, Tom penned these words, which I find so very helpful that I thought I'd put them up in lights... " W...

In his comment on passing the Peace below Dave said "sometimes actions have to lead meanings" which set me off wondering how on...

A good friend whose integrity and conscience I hold in high esteem has been distinctly "off" God lately and blogged recently on ...

We've recently begun an overhaul of Baptism preparation here. Nothing too radical, as we're not even considering an obstacle course ...

When I posted here that I hoped to try some new things this year, among the thoughts I'd had was to finally go to a non-classical conce...

Heard on classic fm this afternoon that today would have been Jacqueline du Pre's 60th birthday. Her recording of the Haydn Cello concer...

Lunched yesterday with a gaggle of local clergy, who are part of an ongoing discussion about the shape of the Anglican church here, and how ...

Talked about this on the school run and, as had been predicted, the kids were considerably more conservative than we had been last night. Th...