(I thought I'd leave the election until later - and then I thought I couldn't bear not to rant today - and then I thought again. So you will get my doubtless unoriginal musings on the election at some point, but not till after Christmas.) My...
Philip Yancey has written many books, but probably his most famous is “What’s So Amazing About Grace?” which I reread recently. It is a book that sets out to challenge the church to be people of grace: of forgiveness, kindness, understanding, generosity. People whom sinners, addicts,...
As I said, "We spent a few days in the town of Ibanda, accommodated in church-leaders’ homes. We then spent two days in a game park, being wide-eyed tourists. Then some of the team went north to the large town of Lira." The object of visiting...
My apologies to those of you who were at Middle St Resource Centre last Friday night, when I gave this talk: I started by saying something like the following, trying my best not to move my tongue (I hadn't gone to the length of having it...
My apologies, everyone. I had really intended to give you a new and interesting post, probably a book review, but the preparations for the "Servant's Voice" launch party (starting in approx 3 hours from now) has got in the way. So I'm (almost) shamelessly repeating a...
Our vicar has a longstanding association with East Africa, which is shared by his wife and his father-in-law. So when a newly-formed diocese of the Church of Uganda started looking for international links (and the school he’d taught at just happened to be within this...