Dear Lord, It has not been the best week for us here on earth. I am really hoping that you know that already, otherwise the world would...

Lord we pray for all the people of your world, Especially our brothers and sisters in Ukraine: For those with decisions to take Which...

Dear Friends, First, thank you for continuing to read these letters. It has been an extraordinary opportunity for me to speak to you in...

Dear Friends, After heavy rain before the sun had risen followed by a hailstorm at lunchtime, the golden sun is now shining into my...

My dear Friends, I recently conducted a Bible Service at St Mary’s church. This is an annual event for the school when we present each...

Dear Friends, I could smell it before I saw it, pungent with promise, as I made my way up the church path, just as the sun was setting...

Dear Friends, It has probably only happened to me twice, properly, unselfconsciously. Once, when I was a child, once when I was in my...

My dear Friends, Huge and heartfelt thanks to those of you who took the trouble to respond to last week’s Pastoral Letter, with kind...

Dear Friends, who are still reading! Surely one of our most well known and most well loved hymns starts with the words: "Dear Lord and...

Dear Friends, I do hope that 2022 is already proving to be a good year for you all. We all need the reassurance of a sense of recovery at...

My dear Friends, Laurence Olivier, one of our most celebrated actors of the last century, was once asked, "What does the sweet smell of...

My Dear Friends, Thank you for reading these witterings from the Dog House where I live over the past months, and thank you to those of...

My dear Friends, "Love", according to Michael (Mouse) Tolliver in Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City, "is having someone to buy a...

My Dear Friends, One of the great joys of parish ministry is seeing people coming alive in their Christian faith. One of the great...

My dear Friends, I wasn’t even studying 20th Century American Literature, I only attended the lecture because a girl I was fond of at...

Thank you again for reading my letters. I have written, and you may well have read, well over 100 of them now. I will continue to write...

My dear friends, As some of you may know, I am owned by a tiny Bichon Havanese called Timothy and a large Labrador called Mahler. Every...

My dear Friends, "Missing, presumed killed." This was the message my paternal grandparents received in the Spring of 1940. Then, another...

My dear Friends, First may I say how grateful I am to those of you who have taken the trouble to write back to me in recent weeks, to...

Dear Friends, The hallowed feasts of All Saints and All Souls are coming up, when we especially think about the journeys our departed...