In the Chatterdom of Clapton Common
Last autumn, at an open day on the Common, our church treasurer, Margaret Browne, was interviewed by a Clapton Commons...
Parish
up and down the Kingsland Road
The Resurrection, Clapton
In the days after Easter I like to walk through Abney Park cemetery and sense the mighty stirring of the...
Carnival at the Caledonian Club with Sion College
There is a network for clergy in London that encourages conviviality and “godly learning” and it is called Sion College....
Youth in Church: the writing is on the wall
A couple of months ago my bishop invited me to her house for tea with a handful of other...
No Room on the Wardlist: a Christmas Story
One of my parishioners works in the City. She has done so for years and works extremely hard. In fact...
On the Eve of All Hallows
It is almost exactly 12 years since I became a vicar in Stamford Hill and about eight years since...
The miracle of the tap
The church leaks from the cement ceiling and the crypt is pretty damp too. Water is rising from the ground...
Can we bless on zoom?
When I was training to be a priest I was told that you can only bless somebody if you can...
Doors into the Imaginal Realm
“Please God to open these doors for me” writes the inmate of a detention centre in North Carolina after reading...
Still We Grieve
I buried three people over the last five months. None of them died because of COVID-19, although one family felt...