The Hearth of Mopsus

As in previous years I spent a couple of days on a Lenten retreat at Malling Abbey. The Holy Sisters are planning building work to turn pa...

Several conversations about the same subject over the last few days – the decline of the Church and what might be done about it – led me ba...

At the end of March, the legislation allowing people of the same sex to marry under the State comes into force. A month ago the House of ...

I sat in Hornington Parish Church some time ago, reflecting, as I usually do when there, how relieved I am not to be looking after it. It...

Any church event requires cake, and our enquirers' course is no exception. We thought we ought to have one. Our biggest problem was fi...

The Old Testament reading for the morning eucharist at a local sheltered accommodation development yesterday was from the Book of Jonah. J...

A stray mention in a magazine describing a film festival in London led me to Beyond the Hills , a dour but compelling description of sad...