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Tomorrow is The Festival of Ascension and it sits between the two festivals of Easter and Pentecost. Easter is when we celebrate the resurrected Jesus, and Pentecost is when we celebrate God’s Spirit coming to live in all believers. Ascension sits b...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt got tired of smiling and saying the same things over and over at White House receptions, and so one evening he decided to find out whether anybody was paying attention to what he said. As each person approached him to...

This week we celebrated the installation and collation of Jerry, the new canon residentiary at the Cathedral. Us Anglicans like to use long words, do we not! To put it another way, we welcomed a new pastor to the church in the town centre! After th...

Do we really know each other? Because there is a difference between knowing someone and knowing about someone. We often know a lot of things about each other. For example, we can know someone's name, their age, where they live, what they do for a li...

Breakfast. I love it. It’s my favourite meal of the day. Whether tucking in to a “full-English” at a roadside greasy spoon, picking apart a pair of smoky kippers in a posh Edinburgh hotel, slicing open a warm, succulent cantaloupe on a country lane ...

Christianity asserts that we are holistic beings – that our bodies, minds, and spirits are interlocked and interwoven and cannot be separated. In terms of the mind, we are both intellectual and emotional beings. We have the capacity for ordered thou...

When I was about eight years old I was sitting with my friend Matthew on the back seat of our school bus, staring out of the rear window. In the car that followed behind the bus, two punks started sticking two fingers up at us and so, giggling, we re...

What happens when we die? Where do we go? And what form will we have? These are questions asked by every human being that has ever lived, and throughout the millennia there have been many different answers. As a Christian minister who regularly takes...

When I write the word “church”, what is the first thing that pops into your head? I expect you imagine a building or a service (taking place inside a building). Well, these are expressions of church but not church. If you have been reading my articl...

In the iconic 1980 film, The Blues Brothers, the two protagonists Jake and Elwood set off on a quest to save the Catholic orphanage in which they were raised. They do this by getting their R&B band back together and staging a gig to raise $5,000. Th...