We can sometimes mishear songs and this changes their meaning, occasionally rather comically. Part of Handel’s Messiah that might be sung at this time of year has a chorus where…
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…
Today`s Gospel reading, from St. John chapter 8, 1 -11, could hardly be more appropriate when we are looking at Jesus` relationship with sinners. Here we find that after teching…
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…
The Lord Jesus engages with the crowds, and various crowds, on a number of occasions according to the Gospels and such engagements reveal something of the nature of Jesus the…