November 14, 2024November 14, 2024 How truth toppled an archbishop Next Sunday, with a degree of irony, is Safeguarding Sunday in the Church of England. And priests across the land are probably wondering what to say to their flock. I would be. It is not a good moment for the church; though who knows? Maybe it is. The Archbishop has this week belatedly resigned over a safeguarding scandal; but the visceral anger reverberating through the church suggests he will not be the last Episcopal fall guy. And it’s hard to know with stories like this which of these are worse: …
November 5, 2024November 5, 2024 R.I.P. Nuance We gather here today to say farewell and goodbye to nuance, a much loved member of the human family, now …
October 23, 2024October 26, 2024 Pink Floyd in Eastbourne We saw Pink Floyd perform in Eastbourne last night. Well, not the actual Pink Floyd because they aren’t talking to …
November 23, 2022 Why I will not be ‘lonely this Christmas’ This is a meditation on the shift from dependency to intimacy. But let us begin at the beginning. Our sense …
November 15, 2022 November, this strange lantern November brings no announcement Just sudden dark as the clocks go back, a loss of light on the walk home …
November 7, 2022 Mastery or mystery? Today, we let go of mastery and rest in mystery. We’ll not be misled by the word ‘rest’ however; it …
October 25, 2022 An Inconvenient Convent – the new Abbot Peter mystery ‘An Inconvenient Convent’, the eighth and latest in the Abbot Peter series, is set in a convent by the sea, …
October 24, 2022 When the shipping forecast saved me It’s 5.25am, it’s the shipping forecast on Radio 4, stay with me. I am about to be blessed. I am …
October 19, 2022 On being Liz Truss Liz Truss is a woman who delivers. I know this, because she’s told me. Often. ‘I deliver,’ she says. Whatever …
October 12, 2022 Is the church obsessed with sin? The church’s obsession with sin…how do you feel about it? And encouraged by the church authorities, do you sometimes join …
October 4, 2022 The spiral way The way of the growing soul is not a linear path. We do not slay dragons one after the other, …
September 29, 2022 My holiday notes – I think I saw you The sea shifts, adjusts, invites and holds The sun melts, warms, lights and exposes The mountain is rock, sparse, itself …
