Wool gathering of a northern dean

I have just drafted an essay on Durham as a 'northern cathedral'. It is due to be published later this year in a collection of pie...

This is a great day for the Church of England and for Anglicans across the world. Today, the Reverend Libby Lane is consecrated in York, the...

Two unconnected stories have hit the headlines and made me stop and think. The first is the sentencing of a teacher who had sex with a 16 ye...

As I write this, a vast crowd is gathering in Paris in a defiant cry for freedom and unity following last week's terrible massacres. Man...

Dear HarperCollins Cato the Elder famously said in the 2nd century BC, Carthago delenda est: 'Carthage must be destroyed'. Or, as we...

In every cathedral and parish church, the year ends on a high note. Or rather, begins - for Advent marks the start of another liturgical cyc...

Here is a piece I wrote for Christmas, published today in the Durham Times and other local papers . -------- For many North East people, a ...