Sermon preached at St John’s Anglican Church, Busan during WCC 10th Assembly as part of the weekend congregational visits to local church...

So one of the joys of Germany are the bookshops, and one of the joys of the Kirchentag is the huge bookshop. I love this poster – Faith n...

I'm at the German Protestant Kirchentag in Hamburg. It is as always, brilliant, stimulating, prayerful. And this is the way it goes...

Sermon for the funeral of Gertrude Anna Stranz preached on Maundy Thursday April 5th 2012, at St Oswald's Church Croxley Green, just a...

At lunchtime today I got back from the DEFAP Forum which has been taking place in Rouen over the weekend. It was a splendid, fun and we...

Dr B and I have escaped Ferney Voltaire and Paris and we are in the glorious city of Assisi. Of course we travelled by train - wonderful! Di...

So it has happened. I have become an ecumenical bureaucrat. I suppose I'd like to think I'm a rather unlikely bureaucrat, (though I ...

Well, this evening it seems to be happening. I seem to feel that I have at last properly arrived in my new "home" in Paris. Finall...

I wandered around the house in a rather desultory attempt to think about things I might need in Paris and ended up putting a mainly rather p...

For a long time I never ate raw tomatoes, then in my late 20s I got quite partial to the little cherry tomatoes and nice ripe vine tomatoes ...

It had not been easy to find a date to go out for a drink together, and I was quite surprised that I was expected at the ecumenical centre r...

My great WCC colleagues Marc-Henri Heiniger and Muriel Bataclan invited me to talk about the history of the ecumenical movement to group of ...

Well I should be packing, getting organised, doing all sorts of things to clear my desk, finish writing projects and get ready to move to P...

Sadly all but one of our favourite coffee cups have now lost their handles. I was given them by Tante Lotte nearly thirty years ago so I su...

What follows is a list of some my attempts at kennings in French. It's not a form that should work in a romance language but it was hel...

I have come home from tonight's feminist theology group richly blessed as ever and laden with gifts, including a copy of Grace Jantzen ...

Some images for my time of transition ...