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Rector’s Blog (Page 11)

A faith for the worst of times

Well, it’s over! Perhaps like me you felt that the day was never going to arrive and by the time it did you were rather sick of all the shouty debates, the over-extravagant claims and the wild predictions of fear and collapse that each side threw at each other. Well, it did come. Millions did…

Are you in or out?

So, are you in or out? In just a few days time we’ll be asked to vote on that very question: do we stay within the EU or do we vote to leave? Whatever the merits of each case (and there obviously are positives on both sides), what has struck me is the way that…

Who are you?

If you had to describe who you are, where would you start? Would you start with where you were born, your family, your career, the football team you support? What would be at the top of the list? Certainly at parties, or when we are introduced to new people, we tend to follow the Cilla…

Nothing is more important than God

So how was it for you? Easter, I mean? Was it full of chocolate and focussed on the family, or did Jesus get a look in? Did you even notice it had come? One of the greatest struggles in our lives today is time. We don’t ever seem to have enough, and what time we do have…

I wonder if you believe it?

On my first Easter Sunday at St Nicholas I borrowed a man-sized Peppa Pig costume and had one of my friends wear it and run into church half way through the service, shake my hand and run out again. At the same time his daughter was sat wearing a blindfold and listening to some music,…