Wool gathering of a northern dean

Jenny and I are like Simeon and Anna in the temple, getting old while we wait for a child to turn up. Not that we are quite ready to say Nun...

After the vote in parliament on equal marriage, how should the churches respond?   Some of the rhetoric of church leaders has been lit...

We have said farewell to Justin Welby. This time next week he will be Archbishop of Canterbury, exchanging the see of Cuthbert for the see...

Next Sunday is Holocaust Memorial Day. So I thought I would blog a few reflections on it, partly to help me prepare for a sermon I am preach...

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 ...

This is my 50th blog as the Decanal Woolgatherer.  What to write to mark this half-century? This has been my first year of trying my ha...

This is the blog I did not want to write.   It is of course about the vote in Synod on women in the episcopate.   Tuesday 20 November at ...