• Here comes the Sun

  21/12/2018

  The solstice is past. Here comes the sun.

Previous Posts

• How to be Single at Christmas – repost

  16/12/2013

  This post was first published in 2010 I find myself wanting to write something about being single at Christmas. After all, I’ve got some experience to draw on. There was a time when I used to find being on my own at Christmas a tricky thing to think about, but these days its one of…

• Gender Segregation in Universities and Elsewhere

  13/12/2013

  Having been involved in university chaplaincy a couple of times, the issue of gender segregation in universities that has come up in the news is not a new thing for me to think about. There have been a couple of news reports about issues surrounding Islamic groups in universities this week and quite a lot…

• Rudolphus

  12/12/2013

  I’m not sure who is responsible for translating Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer into latin and setting it to plainsong. Whoever it was, they have earned an Advent Blessing and a Tip of the Biretta from me. You can hear it here:

• Mary Magdalene – Pray for Us

  10/12/2013

  Am terribly saddened to hear news just in from the Bishop of California that two of the icons of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco have been destroyed. One was of John Donne and this one was of Mary Magdalene. I saw her every day when I spend three weeks living at Grace Cathedral last year.…