What could you forgive? What could you not forgive? A child breaking a window accidentally, or an adult breaking one, deliberately? Could you forgive someone who stole from you if you recovered the loss? If they stole from you and you didn’t? Could you forgive someone who broke your heart? Does it depend who and Read more

In one of the children’s Bibles it says, as motivation for torturing and killing Jesus, ‘Some people did not like Jesus talking about God’. Sometimes the children’s way of saying things is so much more to the point. Some people did not like Jesus talking about God. For those who are not very familiar with Read more

Genesis is the first book of the Bible – a book about origins. I do not take it literally, or believe it was ever intended to be taken so. It was written as a poem, in Hebrew it scans as a poem; it is a poem. We should not be afraid to own that. It Read more

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