Category: Church Matters

 Underneath the headline ‘We are born to believe in God’ there was an article in The Sunday Times which began::

When I step down from leading the church here in Chelmsford, the likelihood is that my successor will need to

To my surprise and delight this Christmas I was given a beautiful Victorian ‘prie-dieu’. ‘What’s a prie-dieu?’, you may ask.

At our staff Christmas lunch ‘Secret Santa’ gave me a collection of 365 ‘pick-me-ups’ to help me have ‘a really

Normally when my head hits the pillow, I fall fast asleep. And for that I am grateful. However, sleep doesn’t

In Chester Cathedral there is an old clock with the following inscription: When as a child I laughed and wept,

The other day I had to have a tooth out – but thank God, before the dentist yanked it out,

Last week my friend John died – and tomorrow I shall be going to his funeral in Gloucestershire. Alas the

I have just returned from a visit to China, where I was teaching at the Wuhan Seminary in the Central

As Marie Antoinette, the wife of King Louis XVI of France, approached the guillotine, she accidentally stepped on the foot