Sermon | Good Friday | 18th March 2025 I wonder how Mary felt... In the name of the... There’s a strange feeling in the air. It’s still....

Dear 2024, Well this is starting to become a bit of a habit. Last year, I was sat writing to your predecessor in a hotel in Prague. This...

Assuming I’ve finished and published this on time, and that you’re reading this on Monday 30th September 2024, then today I am 100 days a...

As I write this I have been a Deacon in the Church of England for 355 and I am 2 days away from being made a Priest - God willing!! The...

As I have said before I often find the Gospel of Mark leaving me wanting just that little bit more. It leaves me with questions. So, I...

This is one of those Sunday’s when I personally find that the Year B lectionary doesn’t quite give you what you want – mainly because...

Today is the feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple, also known as Candlemas. We’ve just heard the story of Jesus being present...

Dear 2023, Wow! What a crazy time it's been. It feels like a lifetime ago that we first met, and yet here we are in your final hours, so...

Eze. 34:11-16, 20-24; Mat. 25:31-end I’ll be honest with you, this parable doesn’t sit well with me, for one simple reason… I prefer...

Before I start, I just wanted to check in with how the bingo’s going… Today we are thinking of Christ the King, and in our reading from...

Preached at 11.15am Morning Prayer with Baptism In today’s Gospel we find Jesus in a lose-lose situation. The question put to him has...

An odd milestone I know, and not because I missed 100 days but because it took me a little longer to write this than I originally...

Recording from the 9.30am service - with an interactive telling of the story of stone soup. Text from the 11.15am service - essentially...

3rd September 2023 | Year A | Matthew 16:21-end We have been journeying through Matthew’s Gospel, with passages of welcome, stories and...

Last weekend I was at Greenbelt and went to a creative writing workshop. These two fell out and today seemed like an appropriate time to...

30 July 2023 | Year A | 1 Kings 3:5-12; Matthew 13:31-33, 44:52 ‘Have you understood all this?’ When I first read today’s Gospel passage,...

Today is the one month anniversary of my ordination to the diaconate... one entire month as a deacon in God's church. And, one entire...

As I write this it is 39 days until the end of the final term at college and 68 days until my ordination to the diaconate. In my last...

It dawned on me this term, that this academic year will be a year of ‘lasts’: last Foundation Day, last Christmas Party, last Christmas...

It’s been a while since I updated this blog… for a number of reasons. The College has been smaller this year and therefore there have...