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And fear shall have no dominion
Posted by Simon Parke, 21 Jan 2020
Sometimes people say they like to help others; perhaps you do. It seems like a good idea.
But I’m not concerned about what you can do for others, because you cannot do anything for them – except defeat your own fears.
If you were to defeat your own fears…
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Peter Ball: a legacy of shame
Posted by Simon Parke, 17 Jan 2020
This blog is a reflection on the BBC’s brilliant documentary, ‘Exposed: The Church’s darkest secret.’
It is the story of the appalling behaviour of Bishop Peter Ball; and the appalling church cover-up which followed.
Which is more appalling – the choice between two sorts of shit, I grant you…
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Endings and Beginnings
Posted by Simon Parke, 16 Jan 2020
On our journey home there are many endings and many beginnings.
Were the changes you have lived written down, they would make for many books; so many goodbyes, so many fresh starts; so much sadness and so much discovery.
Endings don’t tend to feel so good…
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Home improvements
Posted by Simon Parke, 13 Jan 2020
Let’s be honest, Ronald’s house was rather squalid.
He really had no idea what lived under his sofa or dripped through his roof – and he didn’t much want to, either! Not his thing at all.
So when he was offered some expensive gold curtains to put up in his front window, he leapt at the chance…
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Ten terrific attitudes
Posted by Simon Parke, 8 Jan 2020
I was once asked by a magazine to do a ‘Ten things life has taught me’ piece.
It was a while ago, and there’ll be nothing here that is new to you and your experience. So forgive me if they feel a bit musty, like some battered book in the second-hand shop.
But for a beginner like me, as I re-read my answers, they all seem strangely fresh…
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Julian of Norwich, contemporary of both Chaucer and Langland, was the first woman to write a book in English. Yet remarkably, she disappeared from view for 600 years, before her rediscovery in the 20th century. My new novel is Julian’s own telling of her life.
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In the first of my Abbot Peter mysteries, in a prequel to the Abbot’s Stormhaven adventures, Peter takes us back to the monastery of St James-the-Less. There in the shadows of Mt Sinai, Abbot Peter faces a discomforting cocktail of deception, delusion and death.
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