Good in Parts

In an attempt to resume some regular blogging (have an awful feeling that when not reflecting here, I may not actually be doing much reflect...

I’d planned this week carefully. Knowing I had the Gift Day at St M’s to occupy me all day yesterday, I’d arranged for Mary to preach at bot...

Currently a tad tearful as LongsufferingClockMaker has just taken Hugger Steward properly back to Cambridge, where he will stay til late Jun...

Back in January I recall making some rather extravagant promises relating to my distressing tendency to buy books by the hundred and read ...

This having been my first Easter as a proper grown up priest with 2 parishes to call my own, a spot of reviewing of the past week's mani...

indeed - Aleluia

we carried the cross from valley to hill...hard work, for the hill is steep & at the end the ground was rough beneath our feet. When we ...

From the very beginning I have wondered -- what is the real music of his life? Born homeless, - in a minor key,- with dangers lurking on the...

During our Lent course this year, we took one session to explore how we learn & grow in our faith…We realised that we all learn in diffe...

Was ever another command so obeyed? For century after century, spreading slowly to every continent and country and among every race on earth...

at Church in the Valley. On Monday, 6 of us gathered in the Lady Chapel for an Iona Eucharist. Hugger Steward & I had gone overboard wit...

I was licensed to these parishes on 6th April last year, though the liturgical calendar means that I'm mostly remembering my final week ...

The second station...focussed on foot-washing & what that might look like in 21st century Cashes Green. In the interests of practicality...

This was the title of the first "Experience Easter" station (the one for which Hugger Steward washed 500 pebbles). `Jesus said ...

This will surely be the oldest sermon I have ever preached! As pressure mounted over the last week, I comforted myself with the knowledge th...

Things are pretty frantic in the vicarage. Having welcomed every child from two out of three schools in the parish to Experience Easter, and...

Even before I found myself reduced to one-handed typing, my blogging had been pretty erratic recently - & this is part of a more general...

A Time for Everything 1 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: 2 a time to be born and a time t...

This was always going to be a busy time, even before The Arm happened. My invitation to our local schools to follow the "Experience Eas...

Mothering Sunday – the Caring Church (3rd in a 4 sermon series on aspects of the healthy church) A couple of questions this morning. What w...