Alleluia, Christ is risen! Today, I went to a church service in an actual church building for the first time since I preached at St Mary's, Thirsk at the end of the Archbishop's mission in York. That was at the beginning of March. Nathan has taken the brave decision to open St Giles this morning. [...]
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Weekly Check-in (52)
I'm giving a slightly better score this week: 5/10. Although it's an improvement, the rubbish-ness of last week has leaked into this one a bit, and there's been a bereavement at my home church, which is really sad. But it has definitely not been all bad. We had a nice weekend. Saturday was Grandpa's 80th [...]
Weekly Check-in (51)
Unusually for me, I'm rating this week 4/10. Maybe even 3.5. Some weeks, things are just tough. There has been various unexpected twists and turns this in week, and I am also just generally starting to feel run down. Not to mention the anxiety of seeing things open up when I'm just not sure we [...]
A month as a Vicar
So, my licensing on Zoom happened just over four weeks ago and I thought I'd check in to say how it's all going. The licensing service itself, although weird because it wasn't in church, was lovely. At Nathan's, there were just 9 screens, and I had wanted to keep mine quite small too. In the [...]