Good in Parts

so NaBloPoMo is over and done with - and Ive managed it. Let us not even begin to consider why it is so distressingly easy to achieve those...

Hot on my post yesterday about the sad demise of Advent , this week's Friday Five is full of the "joys" of the season - the o...

Ask the Matriarch this week is all about how we can hang on to Advent in a world that wants us to keep Christmas - and of course, this is t...

Just because many another is doing it, - and also so that I know for myself, this is more or less the answer to "What does a curate do...

Everyone seems to be considering their schedules at the moment ( here , here and here for starters), and I am very aware that I need to bui...

It was pointed out to me last night that I had failed sadly in my pastoral duties. After all, it's pretty rare in these parts for someon...

is the slightly infelictious way in which the Bishop suggested that we announce this morning that the period of scanning small ads and wonde...

The weather turned suddenly colder in the third week of November that year. I went to bed really early, because I'd not been sleeping to...

Happy wanted to know the source of the Henri Nouwen extract on waiting ... It came to me as a Daily Reflection from the Nouwen Society but e...

A year ago today I was in Kanyakumari, where three oceans meet at India's southernmost tip...the furthest I have ever been away from hom...

A couple of years ago, wonderful Bishop Stephen Cotterell came to lead our Shrove Tuesday Quiet Day in the Cathedral…It was a good good da...

Yesterday my "thought for the day" from Henri Nouwen was entitled "Active Waiting" Waiting is essential to the spiritual...

As you might expect, since I've lived and worked in Gloucester diocese for 17 years now, Gloucester Cathedral has featured largely in so...

Today the church remembers with gratitude Hilda of Whitby. When I set out to write about her during ordination training, I was disappointed...

Another gem from that training day Vocation is going from one place to another In the direction God wants. Vocation is responding to so many...

One thing that has fascinated me as I’ve scanned the small ads in the Church Times week by week is how very little they actually say about ...

A long time ago, I posted a set of 10 Commandments for Church-going adults , which I'd purloined from my former vicar in Small Church in...

if you are likely to read the December edition of St M's Parish Magazine! It's my month to write the clergy letter, and fresh from m...

Eucharistic theology created with QuizFarm.com You scored as Orthodox You are Orthodox, worshiping the mystery of the Holy Trinity in ...

"A church for children" was the one comment I treasured from the visitors' book at our former church in small Cotswold village...