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