This blog post was originally published in via media.news on 15th November 2024. Via Media News is an Anglican news site whose strapline is Rediscovering the Middle Ground. My post was written in response to the publication of the Makin Report on the serial abuser, John Smyth, who died in 2018. His activities were never …
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Who do we think we are? Ecclesiology in a Time of Decline
This is a blog post first published on the website of Sarum College, an academic and training community in Salisbury, who are giving me invaluable support as I work on my PhD thesis. The Museum of the Moon in Southwell Minster When I was four months old, I was baptised in King’s College Chapel, Cambridge. …
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Camino Stage 4: Day 8 – Paris to Southwell
Give us today our daily bread The unwinding of this stage of this Camino reached its culmination today. The final part of the journey was very simple. Paris to London: London to Southwell Guy Turner kindly collected me from Newark, and BT 14:00 I was walking into 47 Easthorpe. I was so tired, so I …
Camino Stage 4: Day 7- Bayonne to Paris
Church of the Holy Spirit, Bayonne I let myself sleep in after a weird, broken night. Got up, packed up and went out to find breakfast. Then visited the Church of the Holy Spirit, and said prayers there. Unusual dedication, a 12C church with later bits, including fine vaulting above the sanctuary. But my favourite …
Camino Stage 4: Day 6 – Langon Hospital to Bayonne
There are many things about the French Health Service that are admirable. At the level of emergency departments they act fast. Their triaging is much better than ours. They are less stuffy, and doctors, nurses and para-medics are all much nearer to the patients, and they all pitch in. If you have a question that …
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Camino Stage 4: Day 5 – Abbaye de Rivet to Langon Hospital
The church of St Germain Monastery life starts at 04.30 with a vigil. I didn't make that, but got up early, packed up and was at breakfast at 07.00. There I saw a rare and beautiful thing - Kettles. Which meant a proper cup of tea (even with the accursed Lipton's teabag) for breakfast. I …
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