Good in Parts

"Preach about what you know, about your own experiences of the life of faith", said one of our tutors an alarming three decades ag...

I grew up by the sea, and miss it dreadfully – both on the hazy days of high summer, when the entire world seems to be heading to the neares...

Poor Jacob. He really does struggle to get a good night’s sleep! Two weeks ago we thought about his amazing dream – the stairway to heaven –...

  I’m not always the best of friends with St Paul. This may not surprise you unduly: there’s plenty in his writings that will never make m...

  I’m not always the best of friends with St Paul. This may not surprise you unduly: there’s plenty in his writings that will never make m...

"God is here as we his people meet to offer praise and prayer…" I’m rather fond of that hymn (not just because it’s set to Blaenw...

Reading the gospels,  there are so many times when I wish I’d been there. To have really got to know Jesus the man, to discover what made8...

Once upon a time there was a wealthy man who enjoyed a special relationship with God – so special that they agreed that God had chosen HI...

Health warning: These are very limited and partial observations drawn from my own experience. Please, please, please if you are struggling ...

I wonder if you’ve turned to any box-sets for comfort and consolation during these days of Lockdown. Beset with unreliable internet at the ...

DISCLAIMER These are my very personal ramblings...I need to think aloud to have any sense of what I actually feel so may not be totally coh...

And so the "phoney war" came to an end. From opposite ends of our huge altar the Dean and I offered the Eucharist livestreamed ...

So - countdown continued through the weeks of Lent. The Cathedral closed for public worship but our great West Screens were opened wide, o...

About 15 years ago, when I was setting off in my first incumbency, I was sent on a training day about change. I can’t remember much of th...