Some friends of mine in the USA sent this photo to me a few months ago and I’ve only just got around to sharing it with the world. I presume this is well-known in the USA, but it certainly brings a new slant on the phrase ‘Fresh Expressions’ for those of us in the UK. [...]
The media has been full of the reports from General Synod recently as women bishops took another step towards a (potential) successful conclusion. I don’t want to reflect on the decision particularly or, indeed, the process as it continues or, indeed, how uninformed and wrong the media managed to look throughout the whole thing. What [...]
There’s a great deal being written on the subject of priesthood at the moment. I guess ordination season will do that for you. Anyway, I just thought I’d gather together just some of my favourites. I know some of these link lists tend to be massively long. When I see a list like that on [...]
It was my great privilege to be present last Saturday in St Edmundsbury Cathedral as my former theological college colleague, good friend, and occasional commenter on this blog, Christopher (Tiffer) Robinson was ordained priest. Many congratulations to him and his wife Amy – it was good to see him finally make it to his own [...]
Last night saw the debut of BBC2′s new comedy drama ‘Rev’ with Tom Hollander. Tom plays Rev Adam Smallbone, a new Vicar in an inner-city parish, with a standard array of peculiar characters orbiting Hollander’s star. In rev-iewing it now (oho, see what I did there?), I guess I give it a cautious thumbs-up. 6.5 [...]
With all the kerfuffle about the election in this country and the new ‘progressive’ alliance at the heart of Government, I guess it was unsurprising that the nomination for the Bishop of Rochester sank to the bottom of the respective in-trays for David Cameron and Her Majesty the Queen. It has, apparently, been sorted for [...]
For the last week or two, I’ve been tracking a developing story in Scotland where yet another company that publishes Christian material is facing the axe. The first I heard was when the Bookseller magazine covered stories north of the border where the Scotsman was reporting that The Saint Andrew Press was under threat from [...]
Nearly a year ago, I finally made a move to the dark side (or the light depending on your perspective) and bought an Apple Macintosh computer. After years and years and years of being a Windows user, I basically got fed up with the viruses, the clunky way Windows operated. I needed a new machine [...]
I received a call the other day from a colleague who is doing some research work on clergy well-being and asked me for my top ten tips on how to stay healthy as a Curate in a Vacancy. I’ve given it some thought and produced my list which, with his permission, I reproduce below. Oh, [...]
You know how you sometimes bookmark news stories and websites that you think ‘I must blog about that’ and then never get round to it? No, may just be me then. Anyway, here is my oldest ‘must blog about this’ story that I never got around to that stems from 2007. The BBC ran a [...]
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