All quiet over here…

So, why no news? Well its partly been because I have no idea who reads or might stumble upon this blog, so I have had to keep my news off the radar until an official announcement! I have taken up the offer of a job in the South West of England, as Vicar of Six [...]

Amidst all the chaos…this week’s sermon

It’s time for another sermon…

This one was written for my interview on Thursday, or at least the basis of it was (preaching a sermon at the start of an interview is definitely a first for me, and I was more nervous than i have ever been at the start of a sermon! And during!)

I fleshed [...]

Now the truth can be told

Not been blogging, and been quite distracted lately, due to the last week where I went around the country and had two job interviews! I have been thinking very seriously about ‘discernment’ and how I find out God’s will for what I should be doing – normally I just get on with things and hope [...]

Dave Walker Sums up my life

I wanted to post this week’s Dave Walker Guide to the Church cartoon but unfortunately its only available to subscribers of this august organ… I get the CT every week from my local newsagents, a surprisingly good read for a church newspaper! Website here…or you can visit the blog here, well worth bookmarking/adding to favourites [...]

A sermon for Pentecost

The sermon I will be preaching in about forty minutes! As always click on the Bible links for the full texts and on [more] for the complete sermon held at New Kid Deep Stuff

Year A Pentecost (2008) RCL Principal

John 20.19-23
1 Corinthians 12.3b-13
Acts 2.1-21
Jesus Loves the Church
I recently found myself in a [...]

This month’s editorial

I seem to have got out of the habit of posting my ‘letter from the Vicar’ on my blog. As it sometimes gives something to comment on, here’s this month’s!
There are lots of funny (both in the amusing and peculiar sense) ideas of what or who the Holy Spirit – or Holy Ghost in older [...]

Tarting things up

I spent today at Ely Cathedral – about once a month I get the chance to go and be a ‘Day Chaplain’, which means saying prayers on the hour over the Cathedral PA and being available to anyone who might want to chat, about pretty much anything. It was raining and grey, so I [...]

Six down, none to go

Just finished my final Annual Meeting and am feeling relieved and happy – all of them have been mainly positive, and only one had me feeling a little as though some members of the church were looking more backward than forward.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it now, and I will doubtless say it [...]

Church – business or pleasure?

There’s some interesting (and sometimes frustrating) discussions going on at the moment in our Team. We are a group of thirteen parishes which some months back lost our ‘Team Rector’ due to his having to resign through illness. So we are in the process of seeking to make an appointment to what is, [...]

So much to say…yet

Over this past week my mind has been buzzing with issues, ideas, thoughts, concerns, hopes and dreams, yet I don’t seem to have been able to get them into coherent enough form to actually write them down in any comprehensible way. I am taking some time over the next couple of hours to tidy [...]