Good in Parts

LET man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, Th' intelligence that moves, devotion is ; And as the other spheres, by being grown S...

It’s a mixed blessing to have the diocesan retreat house actually in your own parish. When I was there last, on my ordination retreat, I w...

For God so loved the world............ that he didn't send a committee!

comes from the other side of town, but was just as therapeutic. I'd been intending to present an aerial view of the racecourse, to whet ...

I’ve been wondering whether poor Dillon the evil Jack Russell gets an unfairly bad press on this site…so just to redress the balance here is...

Last week I had an interview with my Bishop. A few years ago, even writing that sentence would have reduced me to a gibbering wreck! Bishops...

Not long home from our Mothering Sunday service, and I have had such a lovely morning…. After a rather low-key event last year we'd dec...

Good morning! You're beautiful with God's beauty, Beautiful inside and out! God be with you. ...

Is the title of a rather wonderful multi sensory prayer activity , devised by Chris and Sheila Chesterton… Back in the autumn, I attended a ...

You Are Kermit Hi, ho! Lovable and friendly, you get along well with everyone you know. You're a big thinker, and sometimes you over thi...

Or thus, I'm sure, the poor LongsufferingClockmaker would describe it. He could well have a point... You see, following on from the prea...

Norman Kember and the remaining peace activists are free. Full story here And amid all the rejoicing, renewed prayers for the friends and fa...

Serena wanted to know the origin of “The Handyman of the Lord”…which I quite agree is a wonderful phrase, with such a ring of truth to it. ...

As you may have deduced from the thinly disguised hysteria in recent posts, I've been feeling rather overwhelmed at the sheer busy-ness ...

One week ago, I blogged the nightmare of a diary wiped completely, as if its contents had never been. On Saturday, having received the 2006 ...

As a mother who has rather grabbed the limelight when it comes to parenting, and who is verily married to an extremely LongsufferingClockmak...

That's the motto of the wonderful writing courses that DarlingDaughter attends at Kilve Court each spring. Ironically, when it's app...

There are many forms of poverty: economic poverty, physical poverty, emotional poverty, mental poverty, and spiritual poverty. As long as we...

Having just emerged from a really tough Lent study group, in which I talked far too much and failed to help either of the group members who ...

from the excellent Mealtime Habits of the Messiah by Conrad Gempf "Blessed are the desperate" .