Purple Words on a Grey Background

Today is Ash Wednesday, which marks the start of the season of Lent for Christians. At some point today, many Christians will be going to th...

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

On Friday we had a family get-together over in Lancaster for the launch of Jono's first CD. It contains two worship tracks that he has w...

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 ...

Image via Wikipedia In a rare burst of energy, we all got up, breakfasted and got across to the Big Top for some morning worship with Rend C...

Holy Week involved meditation on the wounds of Jesus,  so on Good Friday we had 5 prayer stations reflecting those themes. Thanks to Sue for...

It was nice to get a mention on Mark Beach's blog , so I'm returning the compliment. Mark and I were curates in neighbouring parishe...

Despite the title, it's not about church services in conservatories. It's quite a churchy thing, so if you're not interested in ...

It's always a challenge to think of something new to do with the big festivals in the church year ( and I don't mean Greenbelt ). Th...

The cartoons of Dave Walker always capture brilliantly the more absurd side of church life. It was good to come across this one again So...

This year I have set a new record. In 18 years of being a priest in the good ol' C of E, I officiated at 3 services of Book of Common Pr...

Working on the calendar that includes this part of Holy Week as Lent, this may be the final Lent Blog. This week has been exhausting, but...

Just noticed our stats for our "A Church Near You" pages online. Apparently we've had over 760 hits since 20 Oct when I activa...

Ok. It's my blog, so I can use it to plug services if I want to! We started Holy Week with a very special communion and meditation last ...

Over the last few days I seem to have had several conversations about what to wear. No, not a fashion conversation - these were about cleric...

A week or two back I got an invitation to a meeting about the Remembrance Sunday ceremony at the cenotaph in Morecambe. Apparently it has be...

Operation Noah was founded in 2001 by Christian Ecology Link to campaign on climate change and global warming. They welcome support from p...

Probably the most neglected major festival. Been thinking why we need the ascension. Why didn't Jesus just stop turning up? Concluded ...

Earlier on, I was thinking about some exchanges between students relating to the content of Christian meetings. The issue in question was ab...

Something I discovered on Iona in the Abbey Church were images of a cat and a monkey, either side of a window. From what I learned about the...