Hello and welcome to another set of Holy Week blogs! For the past four years (four years?!) I have blogged my way through Holy Week each day. I wasn't sure what to call this set of blogs. Holy Week Pregnant? Holy Week As A Vicar? Holy Week in a Pandemic 2? Holy Week as a [...]
Category: Ministry
Six months as a vicar
It feels absolutely insane that I have been here at The Good Shepherd for six months. In many ways, the time has flown by! But, six months is half a year, a good amount of time and, as Nathan said, 'what have we done in six months?' Well, by my reckoning I've done: 0 weddings, [...]
The kingdom of God is like… The Apprentice!
Matthew 25.14-30 I love the BBC TV program The Apprentice. In it, Alan Sugar puts a group of budding entrepreneurs to the test in what is described as ‘Britain’s toughest job interview’. One of the many disappointing things about 2020 for me has been that The Apprentice wasn’t aired. In September, I missed watching the [...]
Thank you, Formby and Altcar
In the many hours I spent unable to do very much when I had Covid, I got a lot of time to think and reflect. Lockdown meant that I went from curate to incumbent very quickly without being able to say goodbye properly. Thoughts about my time as a curate had been springing up for [...]