As indifferent as the rain – poem
This Island has no interest in meIt just lets me be I generally need more attention thoughso I have been treating it […]
Category: Life and faith
Send in the spies
Sermon at service for licensing of lay ministriesLeicester Cathedral ReadingsNumbers 13: 1-2, 27-33Ephesians 4: 1-6Luke 10: 17-20 If those bible readings were […]
Living in remembrance
A Remembrance Day sermon I was standing at the War Memorial on Sunday as many of you were. I spoke the words […]
The hospitable God
An extract from a piece written for Celebrating Community (ed Emma Ineson and Chris Edmondson, pub DLT) – a book commissioned by […]
Tinnitus and the sound of God
‘Let anyone who has an ear to hear, listen …..’ Rev 3.13 Along with many in our society I am hearing impaired. […]
Birth or burglary
For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. When they say, […]
A squirrel named desire
I am sitting in remote cabin where I have gone for a week of prayer and writing. A squirrel has befriended me in […]
Seeking the road much travelled
Just around the corner from where I used to live in Littleover, Derby, the road turns sharply, sloping steeply into a brief, […]
Running in the dark
Awake very early without reason – and none is needed. So here I am, well before the dawn, jogging on the towpath […]
40 years on …
Forty years ago on, on 30th September 1979 …. I was ordained at St Paul’s Cathedral and began a curacy at Holy […]