As a ministry it served a real need and in its own way, very fruitful. But alas, because I now put on weight, forever abandoned: the...

Hey, it’s a Friday! I only realised this when I opened my Gmail account to find an email from Alexia, reminding me of all the wonderful...

Christmas Eve! One of the many sadnesses of leaving childhood behind is that this day is no longer one of unbearable excitement. Such...

Reading the obituary of playwright Ian Curteis in yesterday’s Times, one sentence unexpectedly jumped out right from the screen. “As a...

“And it came to pass in those days, …” Well, these days I’ve been preparing for Christmas, Christmas 2023. It’s hard work, challenging...

Clearly a terrifying experience for a member of the congregation at our daughter’s licensing at Lambeth Palace this Monday. He tweets: ...

Well, I’m hoping it’s going to be easier than last week’s blog. I’m talking about my Mac, so very slow last Friday. Writing my blog...

Today is Friday, 19 November while on the other side of the English channel it is Vendredi 19 Novembre. Which tells you a lot about our...

So we were having our coffees in the bright morning sunshine, facing the historic market hall at Covent Garden, when we realised that it...

We don’t know her name, we don’t know what happened to her but we do know she had been seized from her home and trafficked to become a...

“Why the COP26 climate summit will be both crucial and disappointing” reports this morning’s Economist. And yet despite everything it...

The world is endangered yet again, then saved by a man in a dinner jacket. That’s basically the story line of every James Bond film since...

Suddenly I was confronted with a signpost showing two opposite directions, not what I was expecting as I walked the second leg of the...

Twice in as many weeks our day-to-day plans have been entirely disrupted by covid. As it happens, not by us having covid– we continue to...

This Wednesday, while visiting Cambridge, we found ourselves virtually alone in the medieval splendour of King’s College chapel. So I...

Every so often a verse from the Bible jumps at you to challenge us to think afresh about how we are to follow Jesus. Well, for the last...

“Everyone knows where Dad is except Dad.” So my daughter whatsapped yesterday as I walked Cheshire’s Sandstone Trail with Bella the dog....

“I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused.” As the 20th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, I am currently...

So tomorrow it’s going to be another D, as in Dulwich Park. For your info my other D is Delamere Forest which I did in 2019. Not that I...

An encouraging email this week: “A big thank you for the support through MDR. You are one of the few clergy I feel instinctively...