The Hearth of Mopsus

Christine the dog lady maintained in 2021 that she would never have another Boxer after her third died . In the end she took a final beast i...

I find my Lent Quiet Days in Simon and Clarissa's Garden Room at Bortley Mill  just as worthwhile as the more extended time I spent over...

Something very odd happened on Sunday. It wasn't a heavy day in terms of duties, just the services at 8 and 10 and a conversation with a...

The CEO of the local Council was only supposed to be a couple of minutes, but I was waiting for him for about twenty. Well, things come up, ...

Fr Donald sat with me saying Evening Prayer. At the moment, the Common Worship Office book gives us the option of reciting words from the E...

‘I do believe our prayers are heard and answered’, says Michael Mayne, the late Dean of Westminster, in the book I’m reading at the moment, ...

We prayed for Sheila - of course we did for such a loved member of the church, hoping that somehow the fast-developing cancer had been caugh...

‘I think that clock is fast’, observed the Chief Executive as he cast his eye across the Council chamber, and so it was – by about five minu...

The most striking event in the parish this week has been the opening of a new fast-food outlet on the row of businesses which already has tw...

One of the actions listed in our Church Development Plan is to equip our people with more practical advice on talking about faith. When I, G...

Among the tasks we've set ourselves in our Church Development Plan is the aim 'To establish a group to regularly, deliberately and e...

Clarissa, who looks after Gristham church not far away and has kindly heard my confession a couple of times after the Cathedral ceased to be...

At first, Sally our pastoral assistant told me that Harriet wasn't going to be able to get to church anymore. Her Parkinson's had ad...

A US-based friend once told me of a young Christian friend of theirs who, when asked (for instance) whether they wanted to go to the shops o...

My copy of Celebrating the Seasons is a bit worn and battered now. It was brought out as a companion volume to Celebrating Common Prayer, th...

For a couple of weeks our gates have been a bit low on Sunday mornings. I went through the list of the congregation and discovered that I kn...

'To you that hear prayer shall all flesh come', it says in Psalm 65. 'You are the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of the ...

One of my current projects is to reunite as many as possible of the Spiritual Instructions of Fr Reginald Somerset Ward, the Anglican spirit...

Actor Lena Headey was on the radio yesterday talking about her relationship with the Hindu god Ganesh. [On a trip to India] I picked up a ...

The three hours of the Maundy Thursday vigil always seems to pass quicker than three hours should. By this time I was unaccountably weary an...