Clergy letters

Dear friends, One of the main things I have been doing over the last month or so, as part of my role as Area/Rural Dean, is to carry out Visitations of the parishes in the Farnham deanery on behalf of the Archdeacon.  This happens every three years for …

Dear Friends I’m not generally in the habit of publishing material from my sermons here, but I was specifically asked if this might be shared more widely.  It is based on a short passage from the Gospel of John in which Jesus is talking to his friends …

It’s easier sometimes to work out what something isn’t rather than what it is!  So, from that somewhat negative starting point this isn’t a corporate-style report to shareholders, it isn’t a review of the year, it isn’t a motivational address at a spee …

Dear friends In our Lent Evenings this year we have spent some time looking at the subject of Prayer and thinking about (and experiencing) different ways of praying.  It’s rather paradoxical really that something that is so basic and central a part of …

Have you ever had a vision?  Some people say they have seen them. (Julian of Norwich and Winston Churchill both claimed to have done.) These days nearly every company, charity, school or organisation has a “vision statement”.  It sounds very noble and …