There’s been a great revival of late in family history, people rummaging through history records of births and marriages and deaths and seeing who their relations and ancestors were. I…
Around St Nicholas’ day, 6th December, or the Holy Innocents, 28th December, there used to be the tradition in this country of appointing “boy bishops.” The idea was that the…
One of the things I often get asked at wedding rehearsals by brides and their fathers is when I will say, “Who gives this woman to be married to this…
I nearly saw a punch-up once during the Easter Vigil. I was at theological college where, like all these institutions, grown-ups end up playing around like children, only worse. The…
A bishop, now dead, was known among his clergy for saying of some of his priests, “What’s the clue? Brown shoes.” By this he meant that he was never surprised…
