The Hearth of Mopsus

Well, if not danger, mild irritation, anyway. At the beginning of the Clergy Conference at Swanwick it is now the custom to ask everyone to ...

Purcell; Duruflé; Fauré; and Rutter's 'The Lord Bless You and Keep You', which I find a bit soppy but says what you want it to; ...

That progressed shockingly quickly. The announcement that the Bishop of Guildford had inoperable pancreatic cancer only came a month ago. Ve...

As the diocese digests, as it seems to be, the imminent death of its bishop - things have moved on since the news got to the BBC - I'm ...

A few weeks ago I shared the text of the letter we sent on behalf of the SCP to our diocesan bishop outlining our 'dissatisfaction'...

A letter to a diocesan bishop: We write as your loyal diocesan chapter of the Society of Catholic Priests in regard to the recent statement ...

There is an Area Dean in the church-set TV comedy series Rev , but she has a minor role next to waspish Archdeacon Robert, who turns up at t...

Ironically, as it was pointed out to us at Deanery Chapter today, this coming Sunday is designated Safeguarding Sunday in the Church of Engl...

'Never read the comments' is of course sound advice in almost any corner of the Internet (not here as all the comments are informati...

At the time, the time being early 2018, Paula Vennells’s personal involvement in the case of our Swanvale Halt subpostmaster’s suspension , ...

There are many occasions when I take great comfort from not following the debates of the national Church in any detail: there are plenty of ...

Several of my colleagues of The Other Integrity have been posting pictures this Holy Week of the Chrism Masses they've attended with the...

The question will now be whether the shaky and open-ended compromise statement the College of Bishops is recommending to the Synod on human...

The grim monument of Archbishop George Abbott in Holy Trinity, Guildford, provides one of the most Gothic experiences you can have in Surrey...

At Deanery Chapter we counted up the incumbents of local parishes who have left full-time ministry over recent years, and spent some time mu...

The proposal that the old town centre parish church in the probably-to-be-merged parish of Hornington and Tophill next door to Swanvale Halt...

When I suggested to S.D. last week that Archbishop Justin should trumpet as a great step forward the fact that the Anglican bishops at the L...

One of the few boons of the pandemic period was that we all became accustomed to online meetings. Although they are, in form, horrible, they...

For such a big and venerable house, there are remarkably few images of the Bishop of Guildford’s official residence, Willow Grange, around. ...

When he attends Morning Prayer at Swanvale Halt, Donald, the retired hospital chaplain, often brings a subject which is at the top of his mi...