Good in Parts

The feast of St Michael & All Angels - and one of those golden, autumnal days that make it easy to sense the presence of angels at every...

Last week Cheesehead noted a decline in blog activity and the responses to her post confirm that many one-time enthusiasts are neglecting th...

When I was working in London in my twenties I always knew when the tube reached Embankment station, even if it was too crowded to see out of...

Patient souls who follow my tweets may remember that 2 weekends ago I spent much of Saturday and Sunday at the bedside of a rather special l...

(thanks to Chris for suggesting this theme for a couple of posts - I'm bored with blog silence but needed a hook to hang things on) Yes,...

Yesterday we were invited to remember Hildegard of Bingen... For my congregation at the BCP Eucharist, remembering wasn't really an opt...

this is the week to celebrate the intransigence of inanimate objects (or perhaps semi animate, since I am one who anthropamorphises many sen...

Sorry, patient reader...I've no idea where the week has gone, or what happened to my shining resolve to indulge in reflective blogging. ...

The long now is, of course, the very best place to engage with God. There were many many opportunities across the weekend – some obvious, so...

1 ...... Was the theme for this year’s Greenbelt. What a theme for those of us caught up in feverish activity, in dreaming of 6 impossible ...

Time on the narrowboat always helps me see things differently. Instead of hurtling from pillar to post, constantly diverted, filling my days...

Somehow we seem to be at the very end of August - the last gasp of summer (though it feels to me as if we've hit autumn early this year,...

And really will return to some sort of decent blogging one day soon, here's the text of my homily for the 8.00 tomorrow... I'm not e...

We have been working on our slightly battered narrowboatPolyphony ...Removing and replacing windows, applying more mastick (sp?) than I knew...

A good morning at both churches today. Several groups of visitors, who were more willing to offer feedback than the regulars are - and were ...

What draws you to church? You come here faithfully, once a week or once a month, and I can’t help but wonder why. I guess that on one level ...

for a touch of sanity... 13 groups in the Church of England have now responded to ++Rowan's disappointing "Communion, Covenant and...

As we enter an unpromisingly damp August, the height of the great British summer, I wonder if you are dreaming of far away places where the ...