Good in Parts

The first part of this week, as we approached our patronal festival, was spent very much focussed on that one service - on making the church...

my bishop teased me gently on Tuesday, noting the thurifer getting organised and the diminutive acolytes standing waiting... Thus at a stro...

It began with a few gathered around a table with bread and wine. They heard the words of Jesus. Jesus’ words changed the bread into the food...

Today was one of those days at church in the valley. You know? the ones where half your regulars are away, for all sorts of good reasons, an...

Earlier this summer an email arrived reminding me that, as usual, there would be a labyrinth in Gloucester Cathedral in the week before Gre...

I spent last weekend, with some 20,000 others, at the Greenbelt Festival at Cheltenham racecourse. As always, over four days we were present...

Just one week ago excitement was at fever pitch in the vicarage. Hugger Steward and the Dufflepud were already encamped in the swamp that wa...

My beloved friend, whose parish is only 15 miles from here, finds herself conducting untimely funerals, for babes and children, far too ofte...

It was a bitter January day. The snow lay thick on the ground, and driving was impossible. But nonetheless, I had to reach the Cathedral, wh...

Yesterday I saw a poster outside a church not far from here It read: “Do you have a family? We are a family here” My first reaction (and tha...

Suspect that I may be breaking the longest silence this blog has yet known...In part this was the result of 2 lazy weeks aboard Polyphony, e...

Hospitality – a great Christian virtue – one central to the life and ministry of the church, defined by the OED as “the reception and entert...

Today the Church of England is invited to remember John Keble... I've just been googling and found a site with these "definitions...

Back in January, while avoiding some piece of essential admin, I noticed a Calligraphy Quiet Day at our diocesan retreat house...I've al...

and across the country clergy and people try to focus on our primary calling, to be the Church, the Body of Christ, in our own communities. ...

The loveliest chapel in Gloucester Cathedral is, I think, the blue chapel...with fabulous glass and an altar of stunning simplicity. It is h...

After the high tension of yesterday's General Synod debate, which I followed pretty constantly on twitter, it was undoubtedly very good ...

I was part of a small diocesan working party that put together a pack to encourage our parishes to "Pray like Hannah" - with passi...

This month churches across Gloucestershire are going to “Pray Like Hannah”...But why? It's an answer to a question, and also an invitat...