Good in Parts

In a few minutes we’ll stand to proclaim the faith we share. We do this week by week, and perhaps the individual clauses begin to blur and r...

On Tuesday I found myself talking about Fair Trade to a small group of local supporters, as part of a chocolate and coffee tasting that had...

If you've been around here this summer you'll know that I've been pretty busy with baptisms down in the valley, with barely a S...

At diocesan synod on Saturday, after the inevitable and painful discussions of the budget, we heard a presentation on Fresh Expressions fro...

My lovely friend Songbird posted this over at RevGals, and in my current weary state it's absolutely spot on, because nothing, NOTHING, ...

taking funerals. One morning about 10 days ago the phone rang three times in swift succession, each time with a different funeral director o...

In the midst of a rather startling run of funerals, I just want to flag up the thing that is currently very clear to me after my ministerial...

Last Sunday's Common Worship Collect (Trinity 17) was based on his words "You have made us for yourself and our hearts are weary t...

Thanks to clever cross posting wotsits, the original "church near you" post spent today up on FB where responses were too interes...

A place for prayer A place to celebrate A place to remember A place for peace A place for family A place for friends A place for hope A plac...

Things are very happy right now at Church in the Valley. Two weeks ago, we celebrated St Matthew's Day, combining it with Back to Church...

Maggi is looking at book deadlines, so blogging for England at the moment - and posted some challenging words from Richard Rohr earlier thi...

Sally has joined the crowds venerating Therese of Lisieux (whose relics are currently on a kind of royal progress around the UK) and moved o...

My good friend S., with whom I trained at vicar school, clearly knows me far better than is comfortable. She sent me this today...I promise ...

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...