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I’m an Anglican priest with a particular interest in the relationships between theology, spirituality and the arts.

Latest Reflections

Reflections
Van Gogh
Van Gogh

Sunflowers.  Iris. The rush-seated chair. The bandaged ear. The starry, starry night…

‘The Crown of all Creation’?
‘The Crown of all Creation’?

Look closely at this photo and you will see three soft-bodied animals draping themselves gracefully around Lobelia stems as they venture out in the cool and damp of a Norfolk evening…

Marking the cross
Marking the cross

It is Good Friday. The lonely bleakness of this day takes me back to an experience I had in Norwich Cathedral a month or so ago…

Wilderness
Wilderness

On the first Sunday of Lent, and just two days after the death (16.02.24) of Alexei Navalny in a penal colony inside Russia’s Arctic Circle, I was preaching in Norwich Cathedral…

“Let the fern unfurl your grieving”
“Let the fern unfurl your grieving”

I’m currently one of 16 ‘church leader’ participants on a course run by Green Christian called “Cloud and Fire”.

An opening door
An opening door

One afternoon last summer, on retreat at St Beuno’s in Wales, I took myself to a little sitting room to do some reading. But my eye was immediately drawn from the page on my lap to a painting hanging above the fireplace…

Mapping the Gospels

Unfold each ‘map’ to be taken on a journey through a key episode in the gospel. Paintings, poems and prayers are revealed, stirring the imagination and stimulating new insights from the gospel text.