Purple Words on a Grey Background

Anyone who knows me at all will be well aware that I have never been a great fan of dressing up. I never feel very comfortable wearing a sui...

On Saturday night a priest posted that one hour after the new restrictions were announced, Anglican Twitter was looking for loopholes. It st...

You may have seen headlines about a letter written by Chris Loder , the Conservative MP for West Dorset, about resuming funerals in parish c...

For about the last 40 years as a youth leader, ordinand and clergyperson, I've been constantly preaching the message that the church is ...

Earlier today I put a post on Facebook about this picture. I came across it recently at a gathering with my colleagues. Painted at the end o...

Really looking forward to welcoming singer-songwriter Rob Halligan back to St Nick's, Beverley. It's free to come, but it would help...

Today is a significant anniversary for the Church of England. It marks 25 years since the first group of women were ordained priest in Bris...

The whole process of changing jobs as a C of E vicar is a relatively long one, and when you know you have a job, there is usually a bit of a...

It was very sad to learn of Don's death this week. As I look back over the time I have been in some kind of Christian ministry (as a lay...

This is just a shameless plug for the fact that we have Alison Adam coming to lead a Big Sing at Morecambe Parish Church on Sunday 17th May ...

At least one person asked for a final blog post on Rev, and the final episode has now gone out, so here goes. If you haven't seen it yet...

After yesterday's edition of Rev, there was a flurry of tweets, expressing sadness and disappointment about it. Avoiding spoilers, suffi...

I was initially quite surprised by the tone of a recent article in the Independent . As a newspaper which is politically critical of the gov...

A little while back I went to a lecture by Professor Linda Woodhead at Lancaster Priory about the future of the Church of England. She was ...

Normally I enjoy reading or hearing Giles Fraser. He's usually challenging, often controversial, and never makes comfortable listening. ...

I was in the thick of a meeting where we were trying to imagine the future of the Church of England might look like. Generally speaking, if ...

A couple of friends will, almost certainly, respond to this, but I'd be interested to hear from others, too. Having grown up in an evang...

I've been thinking about how we explain and explore the meaning of things we do in church. At our Baptism preparation evenings,...

Ask most clergy, and they will say that congregational numbers aren't really what it's about. Scratch a little under the surface, an...

It was good to see some more coverage on the news today about the problems of metal theft. Churches are well-acquainted with this, with ris...