As a Curate, along with the rest of my mentor group of Curates, I’ve just finished reading David Bentley Hart’s 2009 book Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies. I must admit that it’s not the sort of book that I would have naturally chosen to read if my mentor group had not [...]
One of the key reasons why I chose to go to Ridley Hall to study for ordination was because Chris Cocksworth was the Principal. I had come across Chris through my work for Church House Publishing whilst he served on the Liturgical Commission and he struck me as a very wise man. I was particularly [...]
Life is generally a bit ‘odd’ at present. Everything feels very new – settling into a new house, a new rhythm with the family, trying to find a level of discipline personally when there isn’t a job to run your days, waiting for term to start, trying to manage that process and discover so much [...]
”You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.” The Matrix, 1999 I am loving this whole blogging thing and finding out how deep [...]
A colleague sent me a quiz today which seems to be doing the rounds amongst diocesan missioners (amongst others, no doubt). Given that I had a free lunch hour, I sat down with a cup of tea and worked my way through it.