Opinionated Vicar

Very helpful and challenging piece by Justin Welby on conflict resolution and social media: The subtleties we lose when we communicate e...

Excellent and thought-provoking piece by Nigel Traynor , reflecting on Rowan Williams book 'Tokens of Trust', and what it means to b...

With one or two exceptions, I've avoided blogging on same-sex marriage. The bishops of the CofE in the Lords have issued a statement to...

Amidst all the sound and fury around redefining marriage this week, I've been trying to work out what I think. The Ugley Vicar has alrea...

I'm preparing a sermon on conflict and opposition, and someone sent me this, which I think nails it: whenever we criticise someone, ha...

Spent Valentines night doing our marriage preparation course, which seemed like an appropriate way to spend Feb 14th. Must be the recession...

The much trailed speech by Nick Clegg this morning has this passage about marriage: The institutions of our society are constantly evolvi...

I was struck by this part of an interview with Gary Barlow in the Radio T imes, talking of the moment he and Robbie Williams decided to make...

Having taken time out from church stuff during the sabbatical, I'm very challenged by this: "Many of my 'minister friends spea...

The faster way to improved behaviour There is a principle that is called ‘Catching your children doing something right’. As mothers, fathers...

There are some special CofE resources for Valentines Day , which happens to fall on a Sunday this year (that was careless, I hope Sunday is ...

Here's Alastair Campbell on the Andrew Marr show yesterday , defending Tony Blair as he did at the Iraq inquiry a few weeks ago. The cyn...

January must be retrospective month at the Beeb, with last weeks 'History of Now' on the Noughties replaced by Kirsty Youngs The Bri...

Lovely, simple article from Care for the Family , entitled '5 ways to value your child'. It struck me on reading it that you could s...

Here's a puzzle. How does this : "I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails m...

Last weeks announcement on joint weddings & baptisms (summary of media coverage here - in the main fairly positive) is one of the fruits...

Thought provoking post by Michael Hyatt 'Does God Send Negative People Into our Lives? ' a snippet: It’s easy to resent negative peo...

Had this recommended by someone I met at a baptism 'do' recently, there's a few clips on Youtube, website here . A church in Wel...

A story of a very interesting 40th birthday present . I must admit, it's not the first thing that usually comes to mind on reading Galat...

Our marriage preparation course started this week, with 7 couples, all of whom seemed to enjoy it and find it valuable (we'll see how ma...