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 [...]
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, [...]
On Monday evening, my training Incumbent will be licensed to his new parish and thus complete his transition into his new post as Diocesan Director of Ordinands and priest-in-charge of a new parish about 20 minutes away from here. Even though he moved about a month ago and has been off the scene, in terms [...]
With the end of the Summer, it’s more than high time that the articles started to flow here at ‘Wannabe’ and it’s been an interesting time of late. I’ve got a bunch of stuff in the RSS feeder that has been stacking up waiting for investigation, comment or just plain getting on with giving the [...]
Incredibly, a month has passed since my ordination as priest within the Church of England and I can only humbly apologise that it’s taken me this long to get back on the case and talk further about it. Partly the delay has been because now that I have ‘magic hands’, I’m a touch busier than [...]
Photos and comment will follow but I guess I’m not a wannabe anymore. This afternoon sometime around 4pm, I was ordained priest by the Rt Revd Brian Castle, Bishop of Tonbridge, at Rochester Cathedral. As I and ten others knelt in turn and received the laying on of hands, the heavens opened outside and it [...]
I had a surreal experience today in my last week of not being a priest. I had the privilege of baptising a little girl this morning in our main morning service, which was great. This afternoon, I was walking down a road in our parish on my way to a funeral visit for a lady [...]
At the risk of daring to veer off-topic at the present time by not mentioning CHP in a blog post (doh, done it again), the other big thing currently occurring in my life is that I’m t-minus 21 days from being ordained as a priest in the Church of England. The contrast to last year [...]
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