Here's your chair at my fireside, and I hope that during 2026 you will drop in here often to share thoughts and observations. 2025 has...

There have been a disquietingly high number of instances of assault — women assaulted by men — in the United Kingdom. This horrible problem ...

During the Covid lockdown in 2020, I started an expression of church on Facebook (The Campfire Church) with my daughter Grace and my husband...

You have to be careful how you treat people who want to be good. In an ideological setting like a church community  or a political arena, be...

New Year resolutions are probably a good thing if they take the form of a path to walk — direction of travel — rather than hard-and-fast rul...

  Just recently I saw a post doing the rounds on social media warning of the intention to mine our posts, conversations and photographs for ...

  I don't have any photos of Margery, or I'd put one here. The Ashburnham Stable Family tasked itself with praying for revival in Ea...

I want to tell you some more about Margery, but two things happened this week that made me laugh, so those first. I'm ( fairly) sure my ...

  In 1983 I got involved with the Ashburnham Stable Family, started by the Revd John Bickersteth — who I think may have been one of the most...