We are off to France once more … for seven weeks … camping! We never thought we would be able to do it yet again. We have enjoyed extended camping holidays in France every year since 2011. Major heart surgery for me last year prevented us going in 2014, and we thought that it would […]

The former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston, the late Cardinal Richard Cushing tells how early in his career, when he was a parish priest, he was called to a home to give the last rites to a man who was dying. Following the custom of the Roman Catholic Church, he knelt by the man and […]

The story is told of a sailing ship during the 19th century on a voyage from Great Britain to South America. Towards the end of its journey it was blown off course in  great storm and, to make matters worse, their water supply was contaminated by sea water. After more than a week with no […]

  Mark Warburton, the manager of Brentford FC, has enjoyed a successful two seasons in charge, taking the club to promotion from Division 1 into the Championship during his first year, and into the Play Offs for a place in the Premiership during his second year. Acknowledging that Warburton’s team play in a particular attacking […]

  One of the delights of living in rural West Dorset are the various little gems we have discovered on our travels. The Church of St Nicholas and St Magnus at Moreton, and its amazing etched glass ‘Forgiveness Window’, is one such gem. It has been suggested that ‘Forgiveness is the chief characteristic of the […]

Fifty Shades of Grey is a film, currently doing the rounds in British cinemas, produced by Universal Pictures. It is based on an erotic romance novel by British author E L James, first published in 2011, the first instalment in the Fifty Shades Trilogy that traces the deepening relationship between a college graduate, Anastasia Steele, […]

  ‘Well!’ said the Roman Catholic Priest, pointing his finger at me during an Ecumenical Ministers’ Fellowship, ‘And what is it that you are giving up for Lent?’ ‘Sin, Father!’ I replied, ‘Just sin!’ My response caused much amusement amongst my fellow Clergy, especially in the light of the Priest’s well-known love for a tipple […]

The ‘Week of Prayer for Christian Unity’ is traditionally observed from the 18th to the 25th January. It is a week when, here in the UK, member churches of ‘Churches Together in Britain and Ireland’ get together to celebrate our common Faith, and talk and pray about how Christian Unity can be further developed in […]

In recent days we have seen the slogan, ‘Je Suis Charlie” (French for ‘I am Charlie’) everywhere. It is a slogan adopted by supporters of free speech and freedom of expression after the massacre on the 7th January 2015 in which twelve people were killed at the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in […]

Today is Epiphany (which comes from the New Testament Greek word epiphaneia meaning ‘manifestation’ or ‘striking appearance’), a Christian Feast Day that celebrates the revelation of God the Son, as a human being, in the Person of Jesus Christ. In Western Christianity, the feast commemorates principally (but not solely) the visit of the Magi or […]