Just down the road from where I grew up (and where my parents still live) a mighty storm is brewing!
A Tai Chi class in Totley has been evicted from its current location of All Saints church hall. The church wants to focus its attention on a Christian perspective but through doing this has [...]
Preached at Christ Church Ware, 20th December 2009
This year with a toddler in the household we have a remarkably different Christmas than last year. Last year at six months old, Reuben was far more interested in the paper that any presents came in. This year he has developed a curious interest for what ever is [...]
It is finally unleashed!!!!
Mouse currently follows around 70 people in this Twitter stream, including one Archbishop (John Sentamu) and nine bishops (Alan Wilson, David Hamid, David Rossdale, David Tomson, Lee Rayfield, Mike Hill, Nick Baines, Pete Broadbent and Steven Croft). Mouse provides his readers with an occasional top 10 tweeters in the Twurch, based on [...]
If you haven’t seen it yet, you must read Alastair Cutting’s amazing personal story of his Hillsborough experience.
So, back to the house quickly to find some of my spare ‘clergy shirts’ (with dog-collars). Pam was swamped in hers; broad-chested Andy could hardly button his. We went, as requested over the radio, to the hospital to [...]
Did you get excited about the table which showed Technorati rankings? Technorati ranks on the basis of links to sites, whereas Alexa can give you a much more accurate picture of who goes where. The Alexa traffic rank lets us know on a day to day basis who is reading what. The lower the value, [...]
Continue reading about Anglican Blogs – How do they stack up – Part the Second
Or, to be a touch more precise, here in St Albans we have a new bishop, and he is Alan Smith. Bishop Smith is currently Suffragan of Shrewsbury in Lichfield Diocese, a former chaplain of Lee Abbey and a graduate of the top vicar factory in England, Wycliffe Hall.
Here’s a snippet from the press release:
On [...]
You may have spotted this piece in the Times yesterday on a Church of England Vicar sacked for being a swinger.
A female vicar who told colleagues that she went on swinging holidays in the South of France and who turned up drunk to church services has been banned from practising for 12 years by the [...]
The new Bishop of Bangor is the current Archdeacon of Cardigan.
After two-and-a-half days locked in a cathedral, members of the Church in Wales have named their choice for the next Bishop of Bangor.
The Archdeacon of Cardigan the Venerable Andrew John, 44, is the ecumenical officer for the St Davids diocese in west Wales.
The 46-member electoral [...]
A funny little story in today’s Mail…
Some days she strides up to church wearing hot pants and biker boots.
Or she might opt for dominatrix-style red leather high heels to go with her six piercings including a nose stud.
Not the apparel you would normally expect from a Church of England curate.
But punk rocker Skye Denno insists [...]
Wales Online is reporting the threat to resign of at least one senior clergyman in Bangor Diocese if Dr John becomes Bishop:
A SENIOR clergyman has threatened to quit rather than work alongside the man who could become the UK’s first openly gay bishop because he says homosexual acts are “sinful and wrong”.
Canon Peter Jones said [...]
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