Good in Parts

BBC Radio 4 has a sort of religious magazine programme, Sunday - which for some reason has acquired the right to name a new dahlia that has ...

If you're feeling weary, I suggest you just move straight on. I'm not quite sure why I'm blogging this - it's not, I promise...

Recently, Paul posted this "Now - here is my secret: I tell it to you with an openness of heart that I doubt I shall ever achieve ...

I’m so glad they were both called, these men of faith and passion, who came to understand that nothing in life mattered as much as the good...

or "at last someone understands" Thanks to John for posting this on his blog. It's quite simply perfect.

Today the church remembers Irenaeus , Bishop of Lyons and teacher of the faith...Not someone we focus on every day, but still pretty signifi...

Yesterday Hugger Steward sat his last A level and, apart from the Music Department residential in a couple of weeks, has finally and definit...

Yesterday's session of the Spir Dir course was, incredibly, the penultimate one. That means that 26 weeks have passed - which I find ver...

In her comment the post below, Mary asked what John might be holding. I've hunted online for readings of this icon, but can't actu...

One way and another, I seem to have spent quite alot of time with John the Baptist recently, which makes it the more ironic that his birthda...

Considering that the cake was baked at around 1.30 am. and decorated as the dawn chorus got under way, its looked pretty good, and managed t...

Youth Group birthday weekend once more...the culmination of weeks and weeks of preparation and creativity from members of Koinonia, who'...

When I arrived for the 7.30 Eucharist this morning, I'll admit I'd forgotten St Alban. So, apparently, had most other people. The fr...

Yesterday's CME wasn't the only thing I've had to leave after only part of the programme this week. On Sunday our PCC met for lu...

Our first session focussed on practical stuff around our need to address issues from our curacies that might lead to excess baggage carried ...

I know, I know, - I promised a post on Timothy Radcliffe – and it was such a wonderful book I simply have to write it up soon. But in the me...

and also the 29th anniversary of my father's death. Back in 1978, he died on a Saturday, and Fathers' Day was the following day. Som...

Another celebration, another cake! Extra-special-friend-whom-I-love-lots was "collated and installed" as a Canon of Gloucester Cat...

Yesterday I had one of my periodic supervision sessions with WonderfulVicar.The idea of this part of training is to work on a particular iss...

This passage from Revelation 7 has been floating around in my head all week, since Charlotte Methuen , the new Canon Theologian of Gloucest...