• Yesterday’s Baptisms

  25/11/2013

  Yesterday was the Feast of Christ the King – and that meant a lovely baptism service of a pair of twins.

  Here’s how it went:
  
  

  Unbridled joy.

  baptisms

Previous Posts

• Upcoming Synod etc

  06/06/2007

  Tomorrow the General Synod begins. The thick books of synod papers arrived a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve been dipping into them since then. There is not much that appears  to be terribly contentious, in my view. However, the consequence of bland motions and nothing for people to get their teeth into is that…

• Richard Rohr

  05/06/2007

  Went to hear Richard Rohr at lunchtime today. He was talking about male spirituality. It was held in a local venue which was once a presbyterian church and which was packed for the occasion, which was very good. The event was called “A prayer, a pie and a pint”, which was interesting as they ran…

• New SEC Bishop

  02/06/2007

  When I was supposed to be completing my training as an ordinand, and just before I was ordained, I went to spend some time with the Coptic Church. The Copts are the Orthodox Christians of Egypt. I went there because they have grown phenomenally in confidence and numbers whilst still maintaining their [oriental] orthodox culture…

• Liturgical Formation

  01/06/2007

  We are going to be talking about Liturgical Formation next week at the General Synod. At a pre-synod meeting last night, I found myself wondering whether anyone else had the vague notion in their head that in some way, what happens in a cathedral is part of the liturgical formation of a diocese.  Does what…