A Trysting Place – Day 1 – Ash Wednesday – 40 Days in Brede Abbey
Peace never comes at ‘any price’ but is forged in the heat of communities which chooses to live out their imperfections together.
Author: suffolkvicar
A vicar from Suffolk who writes things down to stop him endlessly talking about them
A Trysting Place – Shrove Tuesday – 40 Days in Brede Abbey
In Lent we leave things behind so that we can embrace the world more fully
A Trysting Place – 40 Days in Brede Abbey
An introduction to 40 Days of Reflections on the Religious Life as seen through the pages of the book ‘In This House of Brede’
Not so Rocky a Road
[Speech written for the debate about Youth Evangelism – General Synod, February 2019 – There being a time limit only word in italics were spoken] Thank you chair – Andrew Dotchin – 208 – St Edmundsbury & Ipswich On the lapel of my jacket I wear a Langer Primary Academy Flipper the Turtle Gold Award.… Continue reading Not so Rocky a Road
A Card Carrying Evangelical
[Speech prepared but not delivered during the Debate on Evangelism and Discipleship at the February 2019 General Synod] Thank you chair – Andrew Dotchin – St Edmundsbury and Ipswich- 208 Some, who know me well, may presume that I am a Liberal Catholic (or even a woolly liberal Catholic). It may come as a surprise… Continue reading A Card Carrying Evangelical
…Hurry Home for Tea and Scones
[A speech prepared but not delivered for General Synod – February 2018] Thank you Chair Andrew Dotchin – 208 – St Edmundsbury & Ipswich A poet laureate once said these words about a nun pursuing the Religious Life in Felixstowe. I hurry past a cakeshop’s tempting scones Bound for the red brick twilight of St.John’s.… Continue reading …Hurry Home for Tea and Scones
Jesus Levels With Us
If it’s not Good News for the wealthy as well as for the poor it’s not Good News for anyone. It is the task of the wealthy to be Good News for the poor themselves.
A Valentine’s Message for Trans People
The General Synod Human Sexuality Group, of which I am a part, has produced these briefing notes to answer some of the questions raised when Bishops in the Church of England issued new Guidance on how Transgender People are welcome in the Church. It is published here as sort of ‘Valentine’s Day Love Letter’ to… Continue reading A Valentine’s Message for Trans People
Jesus is my Homeboy
‘The hands of the Almighty are so often to be found at the ends of our own arms’
The Year of the Lord’s favour is about more than a good sermon.
Anybody for Chardonnay?
It is only when we do what Jesus asks us that our ordinry lives can be transfromed into the ‘best wine’.
Suffolk Vicar 