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Working life and ministry notes of the Bishop of Buckingham
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I may be gone for some time - 6 days ago
...said Captain Oates . But only, in fact, DV until Saturday. As announced at Oriel College when preaching at Evensong, I’m off for the inside of a week’s retreat at the Benedictine house of Saint-Wandrille near Rouen. This is a wonderful place to... Topics: Benedictine, Christianity, Monastery, Saint Wandrille

What kind of Unity? and of Church? - 9 days ago
Rowan Williams ’ lecture in Rome marks an interesting reframing of ecumenical futures . There is, of course, the conventional RC model. The Church achieves the Unity for which Jesus prayed when every Christian in the world submits to it as a Divinely... Topics: Catholic Church, Christianity, Denominations, Ecclesiology, Ecumenism, England, Jesus, Protestantism, Religion and Spirituality, Rowan Williams, Second Vatican Council, Unity

Seer Green: Global story, Local school - 9 days ago
Back to Seer Green Church of England Combined School where I had great fun with music a couple of years ago , for their 150th Anniversary celebration. Singing was great, and Olwyn Oakley , child ren, staff and friends seem to be enjoying life. Good to... Topics: Big Ben, Buckinghamshire, Church of England, Education, Globalisation, Royal Albert Bridge, schools, Seer Green

Ministry: Rudiments of Wisdom - 11 days ago
30 years ordained this year, and someone asked me what I thought I’d learnt . That conversation gave birth to a few stray thoughts on the back of an envelope. It would be rather grand to call them laws of Vicaring, but here goes (in no particular order. Topics: Aston Sandford, Buckinghamshire, Ministry, Parish Ministry, Thame

Global Warming reality checkpoint - 12 days ago
Thanks to Martin Hodson , environmental scientist, for a tip off about the best book I’ve seen in the run-up to Copenhagen. There’s all kinds of srong views being expressed about global warming and our options about it . As something of a natural... Topics: David MacKay, Ecology, Environment, Martin Hodson













