I am sitting in remote cabin where I have gone for a week of prayer and writing. A squirrel has befriended me in my hermitage. Several times a day she lands with a thump on the windowsill, taps boldly on the window and watches me with bright anticipation. Ask and it shall be given to you. […]
In the preparations to move house I have uncovered a photo and meditation on journeying that I wrote about a road near my previous home in Derby …. Just around the corner from where we lived, the road turns sharply, sloping steeply into a brief, tree-canopied cutting called ‘The Hollow’. Half way down is a […]
Awake very early without reason – and none is needed. So here I am, well before the dawn, jogging on the towpath in the dark, by faith not sight, torch strictly for emergencies. Merton believed that after God created the day and the night he preferred the night. He is surely right. So do I. […]
Forty years ago on, on 30th September 1979 …. I was ordained at St Paul’s Cathedral and began a curacy at Holy Trinity, Wealdstone. Training had been hugely fulfilling. St John’s, Nottingham was a place of exciting spiritual and theological riches for me, with an exceptional faculty. A number of lifelong friendships began there. Within […]
Pilgrim Today off the corner of the island of Saints the sea is wildGod’s firstborn have surfaced there chaos monsters are at play There are no rules of coursethey simply hurl themselves at everything bellowing in primal joyLaughter booms across the whirlwindAll is drenched in salt and light The rocks, as they […]
An unexpected title? I wonder how you to reacted when you saw this title? For at least two reasons the idea might come as a surprise. Firstly, this is the Christian season of Lent – a season that reminds us of the deep seriousness of Christian faith and commitment. This way of life requires […]
On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, ‘Let us go across to the other side.’ And … they took him with them in the boat. A great gale arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the boat was already being swamped. But he was in the stern, asleep on […]
Dear God, I don’t often sit down and write to you. But there’s a difficult question that I want to ask. It’s bothered me for a while now and it’s this: do you really know everything absolutely everything? You see, I can’t help feeling disappointed if you do. And (forgive me if this sounds disrespectful) I can’t […]