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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
I was out of the house early last Saturday morning for a planning meeting and so only picked up my post about lunchtime. By that time, the news was already emerging on the Internet that the Rt Revd Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, my diocesan bishop was resigning his post. Like all the other [...]
I have started getting lots of e-mails with photos and people uploading to Facebook pictures of themselves with their brand spanking new dog collars on. Yep, it’s ordination time for some of my now ex-Ridley colleagues. Some of them look pretty good in a dog collar, as if born for it. Others look less comfortable! [...]
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