Sarah Hills, the Canon for Reconciliation at Coventry Cathedral, gave some great teaching when we were at the Cross of Nails conference in Romania. Reconciliation, she said, is a journey, not just a destination. What happens en route is crucial: she christened it Walk Theology. There may be danger, confusion, anger, fear, lament – all […]
TALKING BEFORE THE SERVICE
These Sundays I’m working with the Church Army captain on a very relaxed, informal sort of service in the hall, available to people who don’t normally come to church and who find formal services not only intimidating but also impenetrable. They are not Communion services, for obvious reasons. I’m very happy to support him in […]
MARKS OUT OF TEN
We’ve recently come back from Romania, where we had been invited to a conference that included a jubilee to celebrate ten years of the Cross of Nails centre for reconciliation (between church denominations) that we developed there in the beautiful city of Sibiu. The conference was fascinating, with delegates from Cross of Nails centres in […]
FAREWELL TO TINA
Over the past few months a lot of information has come to light which has been confusing about Tina and her history. It seems that she kept part of her life in compartments which were separate from each other. The discovery of what has been going on in some of the other compartments has been […]
KEEP WATCH, DEAR LORD
Some people may have followed the story in the past of ‘Serena’, the woman who was trafficked to this country and whom we met in our previous church in Birmingham, and ‘Tila’, her daughter, now 10 years old. I launched a Justgiving site last year which wonderfully raised £1,000 for them, and this is an […]
INTROVERTING
I’ve just been on a writer’s weekend at a lovely place with delicious food, where we sat round tables for six in a room with a huge picture window overlooking the bay. The following day I got chatting to a fellow guest. She had been on my table the previous evening, keeping everyone entertained with […]
Westminster attack
Originally posted on Nick Baines's Blog:
This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme (written late last night after getting out of Parliament): I entered the chamber of the House of Lords yesterday afternoon, ready to lead prayers. A colleague came in and said there…
