May 6, 2020
As I remarked to a close colleague the other day, grief is exhausting. His mother had just died in a Care Home. It was not unexpected, […]
April 21, 2020
In January this year I started to muse about how the Extinction Catastrophe we are facing is connected to global warming and the extinction of species […]
April 7, 2020
I am half expecting a Royal Visit. One of the peculiarities in being the Dean of Christ Church Oxford is having to reside in the Deanery, […]
April 3, 2020
I watch every single day during my self-imposed quarantine period a herd of ‘great white pelicans’ (migrating birds) settling on a Banyan tree (ficus Benghalensis) about […]
April 3, 2020
For those who don’t know me, my name is Joe. I am a few months into my new role as the Communications Officer for Modern Church […]
March 31, 2020
THIS WAS the title of the Modern Church South West group day conference in Bath last month, led by Stephen Parsons, author of survivingchurch.org. The seeds for this day […]
March 31, 2020
Civil Partnerships and Marriage In 2019 the British Government opened civil partnerships to heterosexual couples as well as to same sex couples, giving two options for […]
March 12, 2020
July 31, 2019
It feels like I’ve been campaigning for social and ecological justice nearly all my adult life. I have tried to criticise what I consider to be […]