Wool gathering of a northern dean

We’ve all done it: got on our feet, opened our mouth, heard the words come tumbling out and wished the ground would open and swallow us up. ...

This 200 th anniversary year of Richard Wagner’s birth has been a great celebration for his admirers. I had better admit that I am one of t...

Up here at Rookhope in the North Pennines, we are a thousand feet higher than Durham. The height brings the temperature down by 3 degrees, ...

So The Railway Children has attracted its first complaint in 42 years. Someone has alerted the British Board of Film Classification to the r...

Last week Durham’s Lindisfarne Gospels exhibition opened to the public. I have already visited four times. It would need a twice-daily visit...

I hope this is not seen as an act of shameless self-promotion.  But yesterday, an advance copy of my new book Landscapes of Faith: the C...

I got into trouble on Face Book yesterday over the Bishop of Leicester's statement as convenor of the bishops in the House of Lords abou...