Two daffodils
A local encounter helped me hear Jesus’ teaching to first century crowds with new bite, new edge…
‘The Crown of all Creation’?
Look closely at this photo and you will see three soft-bodied animals draping themselves gracefully around Lobelia stems as they venture out in the cool and damp of a Norfolk evening…
Marking the cross
It is Good Friday. The lonely bleakness of this day takes me back to an experience I had in Norwich Cathedral a month or so ago…
Wilderness
On the first Sunday of Lent, and just two days after the death (16.02.24) of Alexei Navalny in a penal colony inside Russia’s Arctic Circle, I was preaching in Norwich Cathedral…
“Let the fern unfurl your grieving”
I’m currently one of 16 ‘church leader’ participants on a course run by Green Christian called “Cloud and Fire”.
An opening door
One afternoon last summer, on retreat at St Beuno’s in Wales, I took myself to a little sitting room to do some reading. But my eye was immediately drawn from the page on my lap to a painting hanging above the fireplace…
