Friday, 29 March 2013

Love so Amazing: Thoughts on Good Friday Evening

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At the end of the Good Friday service at the Cathedral, we sang Isaac Watts’ great hymn ‘When I survey the wondrous cross’. When we got to t...
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Friday, 22 March 2013

'Just In': Inauguration Thoughts

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So now he is ‘just in’ as Archbishop of Canterbury. Yesterday didn’t make him archbishop: he has legally held the office since early last m...
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Sunday, 17 March 2013

Ten Years Ago: Durham, Iraq and a New Dean

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This Wednesday, 20 March, is St Cuthbert's Day. The day before, Pope Francis will have inaugurated his public ministry. The day after it...
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Sunday, 10 March 2013

About Isaac

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Our first grandson was born a week ago, in the hospital in Leeds where they film the TV docu-series One Born Every Minute. (My daughter wise...
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Sunday, 24 February 2013

Birth and Death In Lent

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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...
Friday, 8 February 2013

Equal Marriage: Gamaliel's View

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After the vote in parliament on equal marriage, how should the churches respond?   Some of the rhetoric of church leaders has been lit...
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Tuesday, 29 January 2013

Farewell to the Bishop of Durham

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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...
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