Wool gathering of a northern dean

In every cathedral and parish church, the year ends on a high note. Or rather, begins - for Advent marks the start of another liturgical cyc...

Here is a piece I wrote for Christmas, published today in the Durham Times and other local papers . -------- For many North East people, a ...

It is raining again. At Nuremberg we disembark and are bussed to the city centre. We are told we have 40 minutes before we leave for Prague....

W. H. Auden famously wrote about the despondent aftermath of Christmas:  'Well, so that is that'. He talks about taking down the tre...

It’s hard not to be nostalgic at Christmas. Memories of childhood Christmases come flooding back at this time of year. If I am at risk of se...

Outside Durham town hall there is a sign wishing us all SEASONS GREETINGS. Let’s not argue about the missing apostrophe. It’s the text itsel...