Wool gathering of a northern dean

Today in the Cathedral we held our Easter service Stations of the Resurrection. This was an hour long procession round the Cathedral (no sit...

On St George's Day, we have the results of yesterday's presidential elections in France.  The final standoff in May will be between ...

It's Sunday in our hill-top village. We awaken to the sound of shutters rattling in a keen north wind. When the wind is up it howls ...

Vézelay is awakening out of its winter sleep. It is cold, but the shops and restaurants are opening and the visitors are starting to arrive....

There are no Easter bonnets or bunnies in Mark’s Easter story.   How strange it is, and how thin.   There is the empty tomb, the young man...

Good Friday is a time for passion in every sense.  It's hard to be dis passionate on the day that lies at the heart of our redemption.  ...

Let me speak personally.   Bach’s St John Passion was the first choral work I sang as a schoolboy in the early 1960s.   Singing the treble ...