Good in Parts

I said I'd post a little more about the "boiling down" process by which we were encouraged, during last week's training, t...

Now that we are definitely into autumn around here, and have moved into daylight-saving mode, I find that many of my journeys seem to involv...

Perhaps this shouldn't count towards my monthly allocation of bloggage, but I've been thinking alot about community in the wake of a...

What we are to become is both task and gift – Marilyn McCord Adams The fundamental moral question, therefore, is not “What ought we to do?” ...

In the mornings recently as we’ve gathered in St David’s Chapel for morning prayer, it has been to the background rumble of a small cement m...

Busy busy day, which began with the 8.00 Eucharist...not a congregation that expects (or indeed welcomes) a sermon as a general rule, but as...

was the name of my first piano book when I emerged triumphant from John Thompson Book 1...No more pictures of cute gnomes and instead pieces...

If ever there was a timely Friday Five , this one must be it. In a week in which I’ve spent one day learning about preparations for moving o...

With everything else that is currently going on in my life, I've signed up for a whole month of blogging every day... Let it be known th...

This evening, for the 4th year running, St M's opened its doors to the families of those for whom we've conducted funerals over the ...

John Davies, a Greenbelt friend (and the author of one of these which look to be a thoroughly Good Thing) has been following the M62 across...

Singing Owl over at Revgals writes: All Hallows Eve (Halloween) is near. As a child, Halloween was one of my favorite holidays. We didn’t y...

When I arrived at the hairdressers yesterday, the staff were very busy discussing a recent funeral....which, they assured me, had been held ...

Recipe for a-less-than-perfect day off… Forego lie-in in order to go for bad haircut (usual stylist away – Curate a congenital wimp when it...

The experience of preaching last night was definitely less than uplifting. Words that had seemed just right on even the final read-through f...

So, I wrote my sermon mostly with real live pen on paper as I sat on Hattie Gandhi's beautifully patchworked bedspread in her student r...

Ladies, gentlemen, boys, girls and especially dogpals...I thought you should know this. As I came home from the 7.30 Eucharist this morning,...

So last night I prayed the Michael Leunig prayer and prepared to turn off the lap top and go back to sleep. One way and another I spent alot...

God bless those who suffer from the common cold. Nature has entered into them; Has led them aside and lain them gently low To contemplate li...

Question: if you don't know about something till after it has happened, are you still late ? I've just discovered, via Julie at One ...