Not a normal vicar

Sunday, 30 October 2011

Masking our true feelings

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I imagine that if you are in the business of selling masks this is the time of year you must like. For tomorrow it is Halloween and many chi...
Tuesday, 25 October 2011

Women in the Church

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BBC Radio 2 is holding its annual Faith in the World week. And this year it is focusing on the role (or lack of?) of women in religion. As p...
Wednesday, 28 September 2011

Ding dong the wedding bells will chime

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We celebrated our Silver Wedding at the end of September. On the day itself we had a day out in Oxford – somewhere we always enjoy visiting....
Thursday, 1 September 2011

Six degrees of separatoin

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Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that everyone is on average approximately six steps away, by way of introduction, from any othe...
Sunday, 14 August 2011

Britain's Holy Trinity - profit, speculation and consumption?

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Drawing on 1 Kings 12: 10 – 16, Proverbs 1: 8 – 19, Matthew 12: 22 – 30 The passage from 1 Kings needs a brief explanation. Following the...
Monday, 8 August 2011

Riots

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Like many people I suspect I've been watching the riots in London (and now in Birmingham and Bristol) with a lot of mixed feelings. The...
Monday, 27 June 2011

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind

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Levy Bellfield started a life imprisonment sentence on 23 rd June after being convicted of the murder of Milly Dowler. Bellfield was alre...
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The title of this blog was inspired by a conversation I had in the early days of ministry with a non church goer. I had arranged to meet her to discuss a baptism for her children. She said to me "I like you. You're not like a normal vicar are you?" (a) I don't know what a "normal" vicar is like and (b) I'm not a vicar. I am a Methodist minister (Vicar is a term used in the Anglican church for a parish priest.) However, I like the sentiment a lot. And the day I become like a "normal vicar" is the day I've lost my calling. The views expressed in this blog are my own and not necessarily those of the Methodist Church or indeed anyone else!
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