Clergy letters

‘What a difference a day makes …’ so the popular song goes – ‘twenty-four little hours…’  And indeed it does.  On 13th June we remembered Grenfell one year on – lives lost, and lives turned upside down, never again to know the relative peace of a life …

He was born in an obscure village the child of a peasant woman; he grew up in another obscure village where he worked in a carpenter shop until he was thirty when public opinion turned against him. He never wrote a book, he never held an office, he nev …

It’s June! I wonder if you are like me – and can’t quite believe that we are now half way through 2018!  Time seems to race by, everything is busy and fast-paced, and times of quiet reflection – times to pause – seem hidden, far and few between. I was …

There will be many who read this letter who won’t have met me – or indeed many of the people who make up the family of Wrecclesham’s special parish church, St Peter’s (the church on the hill that you might walk or drive past more times than you can cou …

By the time we sit down to read this letter, the bright-light glory of Christmas and Jesus’s arrival will have passed.  Also behind us is Epiphany, the season of wonder and hope when we stood in awe at the door that is between us and the light of the w …