Wool gathering of a northern dean

It's a bank holiday weekend. The sun is shining. The world is beautiful. Tomorrow is Whit Sunday. It's not a time to be gloomy. Ho...

It’s that time of year again. The shops are full of lurid spectres, ghosts, creepy-crawlies, masks and skeletons. ‘Halloween is almost here!...

In the Chapel of the Nine Altars in Durham Cathedral, there is a striking sculpture by local sculptor Fenwick Lawson. His Pietà shows Mary a...

Here on the Durham peninsula, we live with water all the time. As the River Wear, it flows round the rocky acropolis on which Cathedral and ...

Last week we went to Sheffield to see The Winter's Tale . The Crucible Theatre has a thrust stage and we had seats close to it. It alway...

It may have been the coldest Easter Day on record, but in Durham it was golden. I wish it could have gone on for ever. In an ultimate sense ...

SPCK have just published my new book, Lost Sons: God’s Long Search for Humanity. I don’t want to indulge in self-promotion ( moi ?).   But ...

In a dean’s life there are occasional diversions from the solemn business of looking after a Cathedral.   This weekend the Olympic Torc...