The Hearth of Mopsus

We've been doing Messy Church at Swanvale Halt for a couple of years now. If you're not familiar with this concept, it's a way...

This is Shelley's copy of Sophocles, found, so the story went, in the trouser pocket of his drowned body, but more likely from the trun...

At Swanvale Halt we have a vestry prayer before the Eucharist begins. It's all very well but a bit unfocused, rather along the lines of ...

The phone rang at 6.25am and as I suspected it was Mad Trevor . Once I'd ascertained that nothing was actually wrong I rather too firmly...

One of the delights of the unexpected BBC comedy series Rev was the appearance of the phrase ‘Deanery Synod’ in the first episode, perhaps t...

I was delighted to discover that Radio 4's Afternoon Play was about the death of Goth martyr Sophie Lancaster back in 2007. It wasn...

Some time over the last couple of days the church had out-of-hours visitors who inspected the roof in search of something which might be of ...