More Reflections

If you go to Devizes, you’ll find Monday Market Street and Thursday Market Street. The names hint at something older: a time when the market sat at the centre of daily life. For centuries, marketplaces have been the heart of a community – often right alongside the church – where the sacred and the everyday… Read more

There is something deeply human about the urge to lift a hero onto our shoulders. We saw it in 1966 when Bobby Moore was carried aloft at Wembley, trophy held high. We saw it again in 1980, when Billy Beaumont was borne from the pitch at Murrayfield after leading England* to their first Grand Slam… Read more

This week there have been press reports suggesting that the long anonymous graffiti artist Banksy may finally have been identified. I have always been drawn to his work, and perhaps just as much to the mystery surrounding it. One of his murals, on the side of the former prison in Reading, is something I have… Read more

Mothering Sunday sits comfortably, and sometimes poignantly, in the middle of our Lenten journey. While much of the world marks “Mother’s Day” as a commercial event, the Anglican tradition invites us to pause and reflect more deeply. This Sunday is also known as Laetare Sunday (pronounced lay-tah-re), from the Latin meaning “Rejoice!” Lent is usually… Read more