The Three Dancers” for half an hour to see what would happen. I learnt this way of looking at paintings from Henri Nouwen, which he...

Thanks to modern technology and an over-conscientious work ethic, this blog comes to you from a remote valley in Bohemia. Jacqui and I...

“And the most attractive quality of a speaker,” writes Rick Warren, “is authenticity.” He continues: “Credibility is a preacher’s...

“God bless Adam and his family, even though he’s a *.” So prayed the unemployed and unemployable inadequate Colin in the final episode...

“Slow down! This is not a race, just a run in the park.” I had to keep on reminding myself, as I ran in my first Ormskirk 5k park run...

Once this blog has been dispatched, I walk to church for morning prayers. A sad occasion, as this will be the last time Phil Weston will...

There couldn’t have been a greater contrast. One building, looking very much like a church, saying it wasn’t. Another building looking...

Q How do you damage, even destroy, a church? A Give it a £1million. That’s what happened to a friend’s church – not in...

The owner of Norton Grange hotel, opposite our vicarage in Rochdale, was planning to open a health club. He came over to win our support....

Which size of red shoes would the new Pope be wearing? A Vatican official was being interviewed on preparations for electing the new...

Louange et gloire à toi Dieu de Jésus-Christ! Louange et gloire à toi Source de la vie! The fact that I didn’t know what ‘louange”...

So here I am once again, in the middle of a very large field in Nottinghamshire, writing this blog as the sun (rather than the usual...