Wool gathering of a northern dean

What do we make of the latest statistics about cathedral attendances? I've been a cathedral dean for half my ministry, and was a canon...

'Now is the time for the burning of the leaves' says Lawence Binyon of the late autumn. The trees are stripped bare. It can take you...

October feels like the start of the new year in the Cathedral. It’s true that the rhythm of Cathedral meetings is already a month old, the C...

The seasons of the year are like tides that ebb and flow. We experience them as peoples and societies, as churches, as local communities, ...

Regulars know that I take to blogging as a way of responding to what has stimulated my imagination. I can't complain of a lack of materi...

The week Coventry will mark its most significant anniversary of modern times. On the night of 14 November 1940 the German Luftwaffe sent 515...

I've been signed off work while recovering from surgery. So with time hanging heavy on the sofa, I went to the iPlayer and downloaded al...