May the dark clouds roll away

Sunday 23 January 2022

At the beginning of this New Year, I’ve been writing and talking about the ways faith is expressed in and through pop music in all its many guises.

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Healthy Guilt

Sunday 16 January 2022

Recent years have been characterised in this country by a phenomenon I don’t recall experiencing to the same degree before: the upsurge of a collective sense of guilt too great for anyone to dissipate.

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Bringing gifts

Sunday 9 January 2022

Epiphany has always been a bit ‘Marmite’ for me.

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St Stephen and St Paul ‘in Hong Kong’!

Sunday 26 December 2021

Prior to his conversion, St Paul was present at St Stephen’s martyrdom in Acts 7.

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Broken Vessels

Friday 17 December 2021

In the sixteenth century tea culture of Japan, a young attendant to Toyotomi Hideyoshi (a warlord of the time) dropped an invaluable piece of teaware, with it breaking into five pieces.

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It’s been one of those weeks

Sunday 12 December 2021

It’s been one of those weeks where you kept your eye on the news, because there’s been a lot of ‘telegrams and anger’ as E.M. Forster called it.

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Blessing of the Crib

Sunday 5 December 2021

One of the treats of my childhood Christmas Eves was being allowed to help set up our precious stone crib.

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Advent Sunday

Friday 26 November 2021

Advent begins this weekend.

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Sunday 21 November

Friday 19 November 2021

20 November each year marks the Transgender Day of Remembrance when we remember all transgender people who have been murdered or died because of who they are.

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