Going to bore some of you now. The offside rule – it’s a rule in the game of football – women aren’t supposed to know it, traditionally, but then women aren’t supposed to be in a world cup final, win the Euros twice in a row or, indeed, become priests, But, thankfully, those ships have… Read more

We need rest. “Come to me, all you that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” These are beautiful words and they are probably my favourite words in the entire Anglican Eucharistic liturgy. The comfortable words from the Book of Common Prayer Service, coming just after the Absolution: Hear what comfortable… Read more

Familiarity breeds contempt they say – or at the very least, familiarity breeds indifference. It did then and it does now. It could be the subheading for today’s Gospel reading. Jesus is back home in Nazareth. His fellow Nazarenes, those with whom he grew and laughed and played and worked, could be saying:  look at… Read more

Think back to the pandemic. It seems a life time ago and hard now to ponder what we gave up. Rightly gave up. But such a sacrifice – and possibly for many the greatest sacrifice was the loss of touch. Yes we could hug those we shared our homes with, but many do not share… Read more

Fill in the blank… Life is… Forest Gump famous filled in the blank by saying ‘Life is a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get…’ But how about: life is not a dress rehearsal! Life is a rat race! Life is a bowl of cherries; (I don’t get that one!) Life… Read more