A Trysting Place – Day 8 – 40 Days in Brede Abbey
In the life of faith there is no room for spiritual one-upmanship which presumes that our work is more important than another’s prayer or our worship more precious than another’s washing-up
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A Trysting Place – Day 7 – 40 Days in Brede Abbey
Of all the tools the Church has to bring healing to a broken world the most powerful is the willingness of the individual Christian to confess their sins.
A Trysting Place – Day 6 – 40 Days in Brede Abbey
‘All work and no play’ is as true an aphorism in the enclosure of an Abbey as in our churhces as in our Lenten Journey
A Trysting Place – Day 5 – 40 Days in Brede Abbey
In our journey of faith we need a balance between being busy and being prayerful – Ora et Labora when balanced help us steer a straight course.
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.
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’
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’.
