Good in Parts

Having been so inspired by Moot it was kind of inevitable that the following evening saw me back in New Forms, where Dream was exploring A ...

comes in as many forms as the Festival itself….from Quaker silence, through the Franciscans Celebrating Common Prayer to the Underground Roc...

Greenbelt was launched (33 years ago) as an arts festival – and when I first visited it as a student in the early 1980s, the arts on offer w...

Dave Walker puts it best. I did actually see Dave across the bookshop tent...but at the time he was being overwhelmed by the son of a friend...

is always a pretty good description of the wonder that is Greenbelt - but it was also the theme of this year's festival. Certainly the w...

Thankfully, we've always been within easy reach of Greenbelt Festival since it featured on the family's map, so we've never had...

This was the Weekly reflection from the ever- wonderful Henri Nouwen Society : the it's by Rabbi Albert M Lewis. As more than one person...

So ran a song much loved by my father. With all possible respect to his memory, I'm not completely sure I recognise the concept - but t...

and true to form, I have returned to a sermon crisis. Preaching at St M's in the morning and again at local Conregationalist church in t...

No- this is not actually an announcement that my life is totally out of hand (though it might be) but rather a thoroughly literal comment on...

Feeling slightly bored and random first thing this morning, I thought I’d have a look and see if that state of mind is a perennial August is...

God is really really good! Having faffed, footled and generally avoided anything productive for most of Saturday, I managed to put together ...

thank you for asking. Hattie Gandhi remains the perfect person with whom to travel and our hosts at Tregithy were their usual hospitable sel...

in search of a Lizard, a bath and a flushing loo... Dogs, daughter and curate are Not At Home to callers (or anyone else for that matter) un...

When I was trying to gather my thoughts for holy joes last week, this kept flitting around at the back of my mind, though I couldn't rem...

about half way through lunch. "This is the staff nurse on X ward ... As the duty chaplain, I wondered if you could come over. We've...

the English traditionally talk about the weather...and feeling slightly short of blogging inspiration, I propose to do just that (yes, again...

Time drinking wine with friends Time to limp along the Thames path (note to self...it's worth taking the extra time to change out of hol...

Tuesday night was a classic example of what happens when you listen to fears more than to friends… Ever since agreeing to speak to holy joe’...

after a lovely escape to London, which I'll blog later, we returned home last night to the alien sight of small groups of people gathere...