May 15, 2025May 15, 2025 Are Christianity and therapy joined at the hip? So, here’s the question: ‘What is the relationship between Christianity and therapy?’ And the answer, of course, will depend on who you ask. Some will declare no relationship at all. There is only the gospel of Jesus Christ with nothing else necessary or needed for the believer. Others will say faith and therapy can walk hand in hand, as complimentary friends on the human journey. Others still might say therapy is the gentle dismantlement of all the neuroses which make people need religion in the first place – which makes …
May 7, 2025May 7, 2025 This stained and stunning glass Newsletter: May 2025 Greetings again, dear web friend And I start with some breaking news from the 14th century which …
April 29, 2025April 29, 2025 How shall we grow old? How will we cope with growing old? It’s a relatively new question for the human race. A quick look back …
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 …
