This year I’ve joined a small group of people in our diocese working with the DDO and Vocations team to help promote young vocations across the diocese. Over the next 4…
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Simon Jenkins wrote last week in The Guardian that we should nationalise our churches, in what I can only describe as a scathing and rather inaccurate attack on parish churches and…
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Ministerial Training // Residential vs Regional, yet again…
In Friday’s Church Times Revd Dr Michael Volland wrote about residential training for ministry in the Church of England, and so of course the usual debate begins again: which is the…
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Updated for 2018! I’ve spent a few hours over the last few weeks looking for videos to use in some of our Christmas services and so I thought it might be useful…
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A few years back for a project I was working on called ‘Share the Hope’ I put together a list of scriptures that told the Christmas story through December. I…
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Top 10 Tips for Starting Ordination Training // Guest Post
I’m delighted to be hosting a guest post today from Andrew Avramenko who has just started at Vicar School. It’s great to get a fresh and up to date perspective on…
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So, I’ve been on hols. Lots of thinking and writing time. A small disaster of a locked iPad and losing a week of writing but I am over that (french wine…
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So after the heartfelt post on Monday, I thought an alternative view of my Priesting might be good too, definitely a sign that God has a sense of humour.. I think…
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Church of England & Ministry Curate's Life Prayer
A Priesting prayer. ( Or just some rambling thoughts…)
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. I often hear people utter in prayer: ‘less…
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Christianity Church of England & Ministry Curate's Life Ministry Mum Vocation
Surviving the first year of curacy
It’s nearly a year since ordination and I’ve survived! Sometimes it feels like it’s only by the skin of my teeth, but I’m still here nonetheless. So I thought now…