Sunday Morning in the Midlands
It’s a spring(ish) morning so the birds are making themselves known outside the window by the time I get up. …
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Fierce Imaginings: The Great War, Ritual, Memory and God – by Rev Rachel Mann
Given that tomorrow is November 11th, it seems appropriate to be writing about Rachel Mann’s Fierce Imaginings. Like her previous …
Why I Am A Christian
Rather more than a year ago, whilst I was applying to train as a lay minister, I was asked to …
Morality and Message: The Church of England, Young People, and LGBT Issues
The Church of England’s General Synod is meeting this week and – as many people have pointed out – many …
The Parson’s Handbook by Percy Dearmer: A Classic of Victorian Anglicanism
Today the Erewash Press published a book I’m very proud of: our affordable Kindle edition of The Parson’s Handbook by …
“the impression of a good shepherd”: George Herbert’s “The Country Parson”
As part of the training I’m undertaking at the moment, I had to write a brief review of a piece …
“the civility of my knee, my hat and hand”: Thomas Browne’s “Religio Medici”
Thomas Browne, the seventeenth-century doctor and speculative thinker, is one of the authors I’ve only begun to read in the …
Lace Mills and the Last Supper: A Window in Beeston Parish Church
In a previous blog piece, I mentioned the habit some renaissance painters had, of painting saints and other figures from …
Paint, Time and Paradox: A Stroll Round the Ashmolean
A few weeks ago we were in Oxford, and had a couple of spare hours so went to the Ashmolean …
Vada the Omi: On the Polari Evensong
I woke up to something of a controversy this morning, and it concerned the Church of England (a familiar feeling…) …
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