Broken Vessels
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.
It’s been one of those weeks
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.
Blessing of the Crib
One of the treats of my childhood Christmas Eves was being allowed to help set up our precious stone crib.
Sunday 21 November
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.
Sunday 14 November
It was fantastic to be at the Patronal service last Sunday to celebrate with the congregation.
We are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses
This last year has reminded us starkly of a truth common to every human being – that each one of us one day will face the sorrow of being parted from those we love by death and ultimately the reality of our own death too.
Sunday 24 October
Along the pilgrim way, near Canterbury we came to All Saints Church, Boughton Aluph where refreshment abides.
