I have a getting-on-my-hobby-horse moment from time to time. I suppose for the world it’s almost a Don-Quixote-tilting-at-windmills moment over the use of the word ‘good’. I’d like churches to have big notices on the sides of their buildings ‘Good people don’t go to…
Whereas some in society might have hoped for religious decline in the 21st century and, depending on which statistics you note, might even cite less adherents or religious practices, religion is certainly not invisible on the front page of paper or screen. The recent…
What would we do in all our towns and villages if God communicated to all churches that there was to be only one group meeting together? (Well, for starters, we’d have, at least, to listen to each other if there was no option!) I…
I enjoyed Pastors’ Study Week. (This wasn’t meant to say that I don’t usually enjoy them but you know how it is with conferences or classes – and Pastors’ Study Week is a mixture of both – that some engage you more than others.)…
I wasn’t surprised at the result of the Irish referendum voting in favour of same-sex marriage. I was somewhat surprised at the media reporting which described the result as ‘overwhelming’ when to my mathematical head the result of the actual voting was 62% yes…
I am thinking in words. I am writing words. You are reading words. You are ‘hearing’ them – thinking them and about them. This is a way of communication. You know what I am thinking or feeling – what I want to say. Can…
I walked the Via Dolorosa – the traditional walk of the faithful recalling the steps Jesus took from his condemnation by Pilate to his crucifixion and placement in the tomb and thus the site of his resurrection – when I was in Jerusalem. It…
It certainly was a fascinating time, this journey to Israel. To be in a group of mainly clergy (there were a few religious and a lawyer) with all our denominations, travelling together to see both the history of the land in terms of the…
You couldn’t write this stuff! Last Thursday The Rev’d Dr Boris Gunjević was installed as Tutor at Westfield House. This is a permanent position – a called position in the ELCE. Thursdays are the day when daily chapel is at 5:00pm and not in…
I haven’t been bombarded with electoral fervour (yet) so I was rather surprised that various religious groups are releasing – I’m not sure what to call them – statements, manifestos, letters, calls – to their members about the forthcoming British election. The Bishops of…
