Opinionated Vicar

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Every night I would check my alarm clock 10, 15 times to make sure that I'd set it to 'on'. Every morning I'd wake with a fe...

The excellent Time to Change campaign, which focuses on ending the stigma around mental health, has hit on a simple and superb idea. 6th Feb...

With a couple of kids at primary school, I'm fairly picky about which channels get blocked on our TV. Anything showing music videos is o...

Dick Acworth, a former vicar and Archdeacon of Bath and Wells, has a son with bipolar disorder who was wrongly found fit for work by the DW...

No, not that sort of organ. A new campaign has been launched today to encourage Christians to donate blood and organs as part of their g...

Ht 38 Degrees . High res version of this pic available for posters etc. here

The revelation that Starbucks, a company so successful in the UK that it plans to open 100 new outlets in the next 5 years , has paid hardly...

Phil Groom reports the closing of the book on the sorry case of the Society of St. Stephen the Great, and their destruction of what used to...

It doesn't seem that long ago that it was depression awareness week, but this week is Mental Health Awareness Week . Great to see the fo...

The Government has agreed to a compromise arrangement on charging VAT for repairs to listed places of worship. The VAT reform is staying in...

The Coalition for Marriage is campaigning, in response to government consultations and moves on the issue, to preserve the current legal de...

This very clever song/vid has just gone up on the CofE website , linked to the online petition against George Osbornes hike in VAT on lis...

'Home' by Dave Hart. Great song, but it has a tragic backstory. This email arrived yesterday: Our youngest son Dave sadly took h...

Brilliant news, the CofE has officially thrown its weight behind the 'Time to Change' campaign, which I've been blogging on all ...

This week is OCD Awareness Week , and here's a snippet from one persons account of their OCD: OCD all started for me on Christmas Day ...

Following on from yesterdays piece, good to see Alastair Campbell supporting the Time to Change initiative that got £20m of government fund...

Too much on to blog today, instead please read this . It's about an online dating site which specifically targets married people, encour...

The new Immigration Minister Damien Green has just announced the end to child detention at a centre in Scotland . However the article goes o...

The saga of the former SPCK bookshops wound up fairly rapidly last year following the takeover of the governing charity by the Charity Commi...