The clergy can sometimes feel very isolated. Perhaps you are the only clergy-person in your benefice.  And maybe your curacy was in a larger...

 I have seen it suggested that perhaps the greatest need for an effective long term clerical ministry is resilience.  I think there's a ...

19th Century evangelical Anglicans were often opposed to what they called "Ritualism". Rightly or wrongly, what might be meant by ...

  A prayer of St. Hilary of Poitiers suitable for the preacher on Trinity Sunday:   O Lord, "we look to Your support for the first ...

    Psalm 8 (p546) John 16:12-15 (p1084)   In the Name…   Trinity Sunday. I don’t know if the clergy or the congregations find...

  From The Rectory   We recently had BBC comedy writer and stand-up theologian James Cary come and perform his excellent show: God, The ...

 Look away now if you are coming to church this morning or prepare! Psalm 97 p603 (John 17:20-end p1085) THE APPEARING OF GOD, RESPONSES ...

In the inaugural Ronald Blythe Lecture (available on The You Tube), Rowan Williams talks about the importance of reading, looking, seeing to...

 Look away now if you are coming to church this evening!  Reading: Acts 1:1-11 (page 1092) Gospel reading: Luke 24:44-end (page 1062)   ...

 You may wish to look away now if you are coming to church this morning - or get prepared!  Psalm 67 p581 (& John 14:23-29 p1082) Seek...

  You’ll say I am far too young! But believe it or not, I have begun to think about middle age. It’s a moving target of course. The middle a...

  Psalm 30 (page 558) Praise God for bringing his anointed King back from death!   ·        Title: of David – the great Old Testament k...

  Oxford educated barrister, Bijan Omrani begins chapter two of God is an Englishman with the case of the snail in the ginger beer bottle,...

  John 20:1-18. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the reality TV show, The Apprentice, with Lord Alan Sugar. Lord Sugar gives the young h...

I’m going to read an imaginative re-telling of the crucifixion by Peter Marshall, an American Presbyterian pastor who died in 1949. I’ve...