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Opinion – 13 June 2026 - Mark Clavier Well-Tempered The Pastoral Wisdom of Brother Cadfael Colin Coward Unadulterated Love The Scientific Revolution : Idolatry Triumphant Michell...
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Law & Religion UK

Reservation of spaces in churchyards: update - In an earlier post summarizing legal position on the reservation of burial plots in churchyards (2016), we noted that petitions in almost-full churchyards ...
9 hours ago
The History Blog

“Roman” helmets identified as medieval - A new study of iron helmets found off the coast of Spain in 1990 has revealed that they are not Roman as previously thought; they date to the late 14th/ear...
12 hours ago
The Thoughts of Chairman Bill

Britain’s War Against Practical Innovation - You step outside to reattach a plug to a cable that has been violently tugged loose by a passing ride-on mower, thinking, naively, that this is a five mi...
12 hours ago
Spitalfields Life

Secrets Of St Anne’s, Limehouse - Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours The exhibition The Original Chinatown in Limehouse, Myths & Realities is at St Anne’s Limehouse, Three Col...
17 hours ago
A Letter from Home

Friday 12th June - harvest lunch - This looks like being my vegetable harvest for 2026. Because of the impeding house extension work I haven't sewn, planted, or grown anything this year a...
19 hours ago
Laudator Temporis Acti

The True Work of the Philologist - Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848-1931), *Platon*, Bd. I, 2. Aufl. (Berlin: Weidmann, 1920), p. 4 (tr. Constanze Güthenke): The philologist is an i...
1 day ago
Suffolk Gazette

How to Win a Pothole Damage Claim - A pothole damage claim can repay tyres, wheels and misery. Here’s how to gather proof, dodge excuses and improve your chances fast. The post How to Win a...
1 day ago
This Is Anfield

Liverpool striker set to sign new contract after MLS & La Liga transfer interest -
2 days ago
Naws

Trains, a good idea? - This was the rail network in the UK around 1920 (probably it's peak), pretty much every major town and quite a few villages had stations, over a third o...
2 days ago
The Continuum

SATAN'S DEVICES Part One - *POLITICAL SEDUCTION: Lowering our Vision* “Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.” II Cor. 2:1 I am an old...
2 days ago
Quantum Theology

Firefly thoughts - [image: a spiral bound notebook open on awooden desk with a handwritten notes on it and a weighted pen on the right hand page] I am in the throes of fin...
4 days ago
Faith, Folk and Charity

The Far Side of the Bridge, Chapter 4 - Some of my friends will be aware that over the past few months I’ve been working on a new novel: one that, for the first time, is entirely unconnected with...
4 days ago
A Skinny Fairtrade Latte in the Food Court of Life

Reflections... - Today was a very full day at Railway Town Baptist Church, and we welcomed a...
5 days ago
The Urban Astronomer

The June 2026 Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus - We have a wonderful opportunity to watch a grand spectacle of nature, a close encounter of two of the brightest objects in the night sky. A rare conjunctio...
6 days ago
Rectory Musings

If Music Be the Food of Love, Play On - A Sermon for Trinity 1 (proper 5) for the Festival Eucharist in the Hertfordshire Festival of Music 2026. - There is something inherently captivating about a beautiful piece of music or a finely curated festival. It freezes a moment of pure truth and beauty, st...
6 days ago
RevdKathy's Scrapbook

- jammernews: bowlby4: [ID: To the people who say Ocasio-Cortez’s proposed 70% top marginal tax rate on Americans making over $10 million a year is too ra...
1 week ago
Edward Feser

Leo XIV contra the new Babel: Reflections on the pope’s landmark encyclical - Last week, Pope Leo XIV issued *Magnifica Humanitas*, the first encyclical of his pontificate. It has received much attention, both positive and negativ...
1 week ago
Biblical Preaching

Preaching to Build the Church - I recently returned from a three-month sabbatical. What an incredible blessing that time was for our family – time to rest, time to grow closer to God, ti...
1 week ago
Opinionated Vicar

Burnhams Hospital Pass - Already Keir Starmer's would be successors are showing comparable levels of decisiveness and competence. First Wes Streeting backtracks from an outright l...
4 weeks ago
Peter Mullins' Blog

A sweeter fifth Sunday of Easter - The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: *the judgments of the Lord are true* and righteous altogether. *More to be desired are they than gol...
5 weeks ago
Steve Tilley's Blog

In Appreciation of House of Games - House of Games recently has become our chosen programme to watch whilst eating our supper, Monday to Friday. We usually only watch one episode of 25 minute...
1 month ago
Writes of the Church

The Five-Year Mission Plan: The Next Steps - Dear Sir It’s with great sadness, in some respects, that I leave this benefice. I know that the announcement of my new post came as a shock to many of you ...
1 month ago
Because God Calls

Reflection for Good Friday – Treasures of Darkness - Today was difficult, moving and memorable. I grew up in the New Forest village of Minstead, and attended All Saints Church with my parents. My father still...
2 months ago
The Artsy Honker

Stations of the Cross response - It’s been a while! But I’ve actually been doing some composing recently. Here’s just a small thing: a Stations of the Cross response, composed for use at S...
3 months ago
Science Blog

Neanderthal Men and Human Women Drove Most Interbreeding Between the Two Species -
3 months ago
Many pies

Salesforce DevOps - knowing a bit of git helps - [image: The DevOps Center logo with the git logo behind it] Nearly two and a half years ago I wrote Salesforce DevOps - can you get away without knowing gi...
3 months ago
Liturgy

Ash Wednesday and Lent 2026 - Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing that you have made and forgive the sins of all who are penitent: create and make in us new and contrite hear...
4 months ago
Seeker

Pilgrimage - Pilgrimage has become more popular in recent years, perhaps encouraged by certain television programmes that follow groups of pilgrims walking well-known...
4 months ago
Getting There... 2 steps forward, 1 back

Here is my Servant - ReadingsIsaiah 42.1–9Matthew 3.13–17 We long for words like love, truth, and justice to become flesh and dwell among us. But in our violent world, where ha...
5 months ago
Miranda Threlfall-Holmes

Sunday Worship - Tyndale - I was delighted to be asked to present Radio 4 Sunday Worship today, commemorating the 500th anniversary of Tyndale’s English translation of the New Tes...
5 months ago
Clonehenge

Brief Clonehenge Update - Hi, I don’t know who will see this. We’ve been on hiatus for a while on WordPress. But in case anyone is interested, Clonehenge wants to let you know that ...
5 months ago
Kate Shrewsday

A blessing for the solstice - Here we are in the Northern Hemisphere, arrived at the darkest day. This year, for us here just outside London in the UK, the contrast between light and da...
5 months ago
reverendally

Hymns for All Souls - First, a new one that is simple but functional, and can be sung to Tallis Canon or similar (just help yourself, it’s not on CCLI yet): O God of love, at cl...
8 months ago
One Cannot Have Too Large a Party

What does it mean to carry your cross? - Text: https://www.lectionarypage.net/YearC_RCL/Pentecost/CProp18_RCL.html Years ago, my preschool aged son got really mad at me. I don’t remember what ...
9 months ago
SorryWatch

I value my idiot constituents - A bad apology can make things worse. This was one of those cases. The post I value my idiot constituents first appeared on SorryWatch.
1 year ago
part time priest

exploring contemplative prayer - Sabbatical July-October 2024 July 2024. It is perishing cold swimming off Iona, even in July, but we gamely wade in, encouraged by two young ...
1 year ago
Bishop's Blog

Salt and Light: Sermon at the Licensing of Andy Dodwell to be Vicar of Tupsley and HamptonBishop, 27th March 0925 - Romans 12.1-8 and Matthew 5.13-16 In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. What a wonderful gathering this is. Welcome to yo...
1 year ago
Purple Words on a Grey Background

Charity Begins Where? - You may have noticed that there has been a big flurry of activity online recently about *comments Vice President J D Vance made* about the prioritisation...
1 year ago
Francis Pryor - In the Long Run

Sorry About the Pause - I do apologise for being absent from this blog for almost exactly a year. There have been many reasons, including computer hardware issues and other practi...
1 year ago
thoughtfullydetached

Against, and Also For, an Austere and Simple Vision - Life is the flight of the alone to the Alone. (Plotinus) Under pretence of driving out the vendors from the temple, they have driven away the little ones w...
1 year ago
... because God is love

“Grant that what we sing with our lips we may believe in our hearts…” – a sermon for RSCM Music Sunday - A sermon preached for RSCM Music Sunday during Come-and-Sing Choral Evensong at St Mary’s, Shenley Church End. Readings: Isaiah 49.8-13 and Colossians 3.12...
2 years ago
Scatter Cushions

Teaser Tuesday - 28th May - Teaser tuesdays now hosted here. Grab your current read Open to a random page Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT T...
2 years ago
Allan R. Bevere

Changes Here at My Blog - The time has come for me to move on from the blogger platform. I have been blogging here since December of 2005, and it has been a great run! I am not go...
2 years ago
The Vicar's Wife

Who’s Living in Your Vicarage? - Our Vicarage was beginning to empty out earlier this year. Our lovely Persian lodgers found a flat and moved out just before their baby was born. The Joker...
2 years ago
Madcap Manor

3 Kings card for my Church - Hi, guys! My Church has recently introduced a system whereby, instead of sending individual cards to each other, we all sign one BIG card to wish us Compl...
2 years ago
Maverick Philosopher

New Yorkers are Getting What They Deserve - They are paying the just tax for willful self-enstupidation. Vote Democrat, get more crime. The morally decent should leave NYC, and indeed every Democrat-...
2 years ago
Vic the Vicar!

Compline (Night Prayer) - Monday, 28 August 2023 - In the beginning there was nothing - and God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) sang and it was: Creation was! Tonight may the Godhead sing over you and bring y...
2 years ago
The hermeneutic of continuity

Saint Gabriel - The angels call for our veneration and awe as part of God’s creation. Part of the destructive modernism of the 1970s included advice to Catholic school t...
3 years ago
The dullest blog in the world

My desk - My desk had a number of things on it. There were various items of stationery, including some paper. Some other objects were on the desk too, but nothing ou...
4 years ago
Of Course, I Could be Wrong - at Saint Laika's

Record Sleeves With Dogs On ( 831 ) - … [CLICK TO READ MORE]
4 years ago
tigerish waters

Last Post - *Sorry for my long absence, I am writing to say that this will be my last post. Google have forced my hand. They have been asking for my date of birth...
5 years ago
Lessons from The Lockdown

How to be Married - I really like my husband. He once made me laugh so much that just thinking of it now, many years later, makes me snort with mirth until I’m wheezy. He’s so...
5 years ago
Revd Alice Watson

On telling stories. The parable of the talents. A sermon for 2 before Advent - May I speak in the name of God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. So Jesus tells another parable. This is his final parable recorded in Matthew, which perhaps...
5 years ago
Chaplaining On

On Success in Ministry - It was my own University Chaplain who first pointed out that I was addicted to achievement. After January exams in the third year, I showed him my back-of-...
5 years ago
Ordinary Glories

On the Ristorante Abruzzi, Rome - I forget which biography of Napoleon it is- I read it, pages dusty and his story then fresh to me, as a teenager many years ago- but in it an English hist...
5 years ago
Arundel & Brighton Latin Mass Society

Ash Wednesday Mass... - ...at Christ the King, Langney, Eastbourne at 9.00 am. The celebrant will be Fr Thomas Mason.
6 years ago
Comments on: Introduction: About Summer Winos

By: Andrew T. Smith - Hi Iain. We have no information on the gravesite, but would say that it is possible a simply wooden cross was Mr Sallis' own request.
6 years ago
Rev'd Claire

#AnecdotalEvidence by #WendyCope #notgb19 - It may be that you don’t like poetry. You might not want your heartstrings tugged by dancing language which renders ordinary extraordinary. You might not w...
6 years ago
My view from the loo

A new attitude - Not strictly a view from the loo, but more a portal into a different existence; the world of cruising. I have spent a very happy winter on my not so new ...
7 years ago
Countercultural Father

Our Lady Who Turns Her Face to the Wall - Some years ago, my late mother gave me a small statue of Our Lady of Torreciudad. She sits on top of the chest of drawers by my bed, in the corner of the ...
7 years ago
Phil's Treehouse

ESL #3: Political - Another of the books I'm reading on my ESL is Justin Welby's Reimagining Britain. A couple of days ago the Archbishop fronted the publication of a report b...
7 years ago
Mulier Fortis

Rosary On The Coast At Margate... - Following the witness shown in Poland and Ireland recently, a group of lay people in the UK decided to try and organise a similar day of pilgrimage and p...
8 years ago
connexions

Hymn of the day - Praise the Lord who reigns above And keeps His court below; Praise the holy God of love And all His greatness show; Praise Him for His noble deeds; Praise ...
8 years ago
Exciting Weariness: Even Lesser Feasts of the Church of England

7th November- The Centenary of the Russian Revolution - *The Centenary of the Russian Revolution* *7th November--Definitely a good thing, honest--Even Lesser Festival--Red* Members of the Church had long been l...
8 years ago
Significant Truths

Results day - Results day on Thursday and I was relieved that my students did alright, possibly not the best set of results ever but nothing too surprising, most doing a...
8 years ago
Filey Parish Blog

NEW WEBSITE FROM MARCH 2017 - http://fileyparish.org.uk/
9 years ago
Dreaming Beneath the Spires

Failing Better: A New Year’s Resolution, of sorts - Christ Church, Oxford University Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett So it’s a New Year…2017. I love...
9 years ago
Quantum Diaries

The forgotten life of Einstein’s wife - 19 December was the 141th anniversary of the birth of Mileva Marić Einstein. But who remembers this brilliant scientist? While her husband, Albert Einstein...
9 years ago
parishLife

O Antiphons - It is especially in the final week of Advent that our attention is fixed on the messianic promises proclaimed by the ancient prophets of Israel. A distinc...
9 years ago
Curlew River

Neither denial nor despair - Walter Brueggemann has some timely thoughts in his book A Pathway of Interpretation (pp.85f.), where he turns his attention in one chapter to the poem that...
9 years ago
part time priest

Take a deep breath - Still waters run deep (river Thames at Pangbourne) Could we all just take a deep breath and calm down a bit in the western world? In the US, feelings hav...
9 years ago
Saint Teddy's Church | love one another, by this all will know you are my disciples

Christian fiction writing: Why are you doing it? - Have you picked up a Christian magazine recently? There are some good ones about. But quite often it seems that these magazines are produced by people who ...
9 years ago
Chemistry World blog

Setting the metallic hydrogen record straight - Guest post by Andy Extance In 1935, two scientists working at Princeton University in the US made a prediction that chemists and physicists are still striv...
9 years ago
The Heathen Hub - Blogs - Stranger In An Even Stranger Land by Gurdur

The politics of pronouns, the language of abuse and democracy - You can make anything political, from cheese to pronouns. Whether you can do that in any worthwhile way is a different matter. An exchange on Twitter...
10 years ago
Beyond the Woodshed

Mired and Mithering - Tis many weary weeks to endure afore the winter winds fall still and owr wood is allus dwindled to nowt. There be no shed to keep the timber from the rain ...
11 years ago
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