Good in Parts

My to do list for the coming week looks something like this (which is why I'm a great fan of Justin's book though I need to do some...

If a picture is worth 1000 words, I wonder what we’d learn from picturing our readings today…There is the high drama of apocalyptic vision...

On Thursday, the Feast of Hilda of Whitby, FabBishop invited the clergywomen of the diocese to meet together, to worship and to talk through...

You don't have to be in this game for long before you realise that the people who will teach you most are likely to be under 10s... I...

Last week's diocesan clergy day was designed to tell us those things we really HAVE to know about Terms of Service, Common Tenure and th...

Al though some parts of last week were decidedly difficult, overall it was good - and as I look back from the perspective of Sunday evening ...

was the title of yesterday's Estate Churches Network conference...and certainly in a predominantly rural and affluent diocese like this ...

Do you remember the millennium bug? It was going to strike us all down on the 1st of January 2000, as all the technology on which our soci...

As I contemplated digging myself out from under a heap of purring feline to engage with the world (and specifically with two dogs in dire ne...

are given, unlooked for, in ministry. Over the past few weeks, I've been ministered to again and again by V., as she and her husband to...

I'm never much good at Remembrance Sunday. Born in 1960, WW2 seemed very close as for my parents it was their first adult reality...My f...

Today's All Souls Eucharist & Commemoration of the Departed draws a line for me, I think, under the recent tide of death-beds and fu...

A seed is an act of faith… If I knew I was going to die tomorrow, I should plant a tree today. . So Martin Luther King summed up the faith a...

Is the annual "service of remembrance & thanksgiving" we offer to those families with whom we have had contact through funeral...

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, ...