09/03/14 MALMESBURY ABBEY âLook, the Lamb of God, that takes away the sin of the world.â Donât pity me too much, there are many profound privileges to being a vicar. One…

16/02/14 MALMESBURY ABBEY âPerfect love drives out fear.â It feels like a familiar friend now. Shifting chairs, carrying boards, carting hay bales, moving ramps, setting…

21 S T DECEMBER 2014 Why on earth Bethlehem? Why an animal feeding trough, in a cave, in a rural Judean backwater, with a disgraced teenager as a mother, a few shepherds…

11 T H JANUARY 2015 Last November I used Proverbs 26:11, a graphic reference to a dog, to illustrate a point in a sermon. Every single Abbey member I have spoken to, it seems,…

1 S T F EBRUARY 2015 There were two choices for young people at St Andrewâs, Aylestone in Leicester, where I grew up. You could either sing in the choir and experience the…

15 T H F EBRUARY 2015 My birthday falls at the end of Au- gust, most years. I always find it particularly moving that the good people of Malmesbury shut down their High Street…