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Doctrine, Mission and Vocation in Samuel Wells’ “What Anglicans Believe”

July 5, 2020

I was recently given a copy of Samuel Wells’ excellent book What Anglicans Believe: An Introduction.  It’s well worth a …

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A Question of Theology

July 31, 2018

As I wrote in my last piece, I’ve been looking back on the last couple of years of training for …

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Things I didn’t know before I trained for ministry in the Church of England – “I’m not as radical as I thought I was”

July 28, 2018

I’ve had confirmation of passing training, I’ve been sent details of the service at the Minster, and so after a …

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Sunday Morning in the Midlands

March 20, 2018

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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Morality and Message: The Church of England, Young People, and LGBT Issues

July 7, 2017

The Church of England’s General Synod is meeting this week and – as many people have pointed out – many …

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“the civility of my knee, my hat and hand”: Thomas Browne’s “Religio Medici”

April 8, 2017

Thomas Browne, the seventeenth-century doctor and speculative thinker, is one of the authors I’ve only begun to read in the …

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A Church in Crisis: Anthony Trollope’s ‘Clergymen of the Church of England’

March 24, 2017

Last month the Erewash Press published Clergymen of the Church of England, Anthony Trollope’s collection of “clerical sketches”.  In it …

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Vada the Omi: On the Polari Evensong

February 4, 2017

I woke up to something of a controversy this morning, and it concerned the Church of England (a familiar feeling…)  …

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A Very Manly Christmas: On “Men-Friendly” Services

December 2, 2015

Yesterday the Diocese of Oxford published a blog post on creating a “man-friendly” service for Christmas Eve. It remarks on …

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Cassock Rippers and Ecclesiastical Fiction: An Interview with Catherine Fox

August 27, 2014

Catherine Fox was educated at Durham and London Universities and has a degree in English and a PhD in Theology. …

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My latest book investigates a literary urban legend about Shakespeare and the King James Bible.

Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible - my book on the history and use of these two texts.

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