One Sunday morning, at the 8 o’clock Eucharist, I stood before a bleary-eyed churchwarden who had stayed up until 5am watching the Olympics! And I was reminded of the wordsContinue reading
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What are you looking at?
Nearly every day for the last five years I have walked down the High Street in Cheltenham. Recently challenged by a passage I read by an American geographer, Yi-Fu Tuan,Continue reading
Changing Times
Many, many years ago I remember reading the phrase, “if you don’t change, you’ll die.” And yet, human beings don’t like change – we often rebel against it. we preferContinue reading
Lets talk about the weather
There is a general assumption that we British have a fixation with the weather. Five years ago a study found that 70% of us check the weather forecast at leastContinue reading
The Good Mother
I have a confession; Mothering Sunday is way off being my favourite Sunday. On any Sunday there are a lot of expectations around in congregations about how worship of GodContinue reading
February Hope
February as a month does not have a lot going for it. Christmas is long past; summer is ages away, and coughs, colds and seasonal bugs are doing their worst.Continue reading
Sam, Monty and Mabel
Sam and Monty have been touching people’s hearts – making some people some people cry, apparently! For those of you who haven’t seen the latest John Lewis TV advert forContinue reading
Playing by the rules?
Are you, I wonder, a compulsive picture-straightener? Do things which appear unbalanced offend your sense of how the world should be? Many people seem, on the surface at least, toContinue reading
A life to live, a race to run
The Commonwealth Games are over. Considered the best ever, it was certainly a gripping 10 days. The potential of many young competitors had been recognised and, with training and commitmentContinue reading
At last, thank God!
At last, thank God! This has been the cry from a number of people I’ve met this week, following the General Synod vote to allow women to be made BishopContinue reading
Integrity
Some of my early memories are of Rolf Harris in black and white when we only had the choice of BBC or ITV. Now he is in jail with hisContinue reading
Who cares?
A mother was convicted last week of starving her four-year-old son to death. The newspaper headlines were stark and the pictures truly shocking. It was two years before the child’sContinue reading
