This week I ‘attended’ the Festival of Preaching hosted by St Martin-in-the-Fields in London and presented by the Church Times-Canterbury Press. To some the phrase ‘Festival of Preaching’ may seem like an oxymoron, such is the bad rap that the medium of preaching...
Since my ordination to the diaconate in February 2018, I have been learning what it means to be a deacon. Finding myself at the interface between the flock gathered and the flock dispersed, I look back into the church, and also out to the community. That feels like a...
This day in the life of our parish felt at once momentous, triumphant and filled with the sounds of proverbial trumpets announcing the ineffable but definite quality of the historic in our midst. It was a day whose coattails you sought to seize, to grasp and pin...
