The Hearth of Mopsus

At Banvale Church along the way they've finally completed a rebuilding project that's taken twelve years from inception through argu...

A friend may be leaving Oxford, a city she loves, after more than two decades. The 1930s is not her favoured period, but having heard Doroth...

On my way back from a visit to my Mum in Dorset I called in at Burley in the New Forest, a place I haven’t visited in probably 35 years or s...

Usually the safeguarding training I'm obliged to attend is run by the Diocese, but today I was at a school-based session. It wasn't ...

If you listen to coverage of the violent riots and disturbances disrupting various English towns and cities at the moment, one of the more p...

The Deanery Chapter gathered yesterday to hear the head of the Mission Department at the Diocese talk about lay ministry. That's what th...

Keeping with the principals of theological colleges, Fr Robin Ward of Staggers lately posted a link to this video of Pope John XXIII being ...

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 ...

Every two years we clergy go through a Ministerial Review. I think that as one of the dwindling band of incumbents with freehold, technicall...

Delving back into the history of the Church of England reminds me how we have always, it seems, believed that British society wanted less to...

This is a scene that can’t happen now. In 2013 we hosted the Town Council Rogation service that used to rotate around the local Anglican chu...

Messy Church at Swanvale Halt has been severely impacted by the pandemic, though we aren't entirely sure why this should be. Our numbers...

The Vicar of Tophill and the priest-in-charge of Hornington described for the meeting’s benefit the process of establishing the new ‘minster...

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...

The idea was that I would meet S.D. at Tate Britain, but at first we managed to miss one another – I had, inexplicably, the wrong time and t...

It's been a long, long time since we had a meeting of the Local Vocations Advisors, and even the prospect of nice sandwiches in Church H...

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...

A zoom down to Dorset to celebrate my birthday brought the chance to revisit two museums which have been completely refurbished over the las...