The annual jamboree that is COP - the UN Climate Conference - is over.  World leaders and representatives of the nations have returned home.  Those from global corporations and business have gone back to their day jobs making the world go round.  Scientists are back...

The climate is changing. Not the political climate.  Nor the economic one. Nor the cultural or social climate of our nation. Well, truth be told, these are always on the move. But no.  I mean the Earth’s climate is changing. Unless you have failed to watch the news,...

I like a bit of wildness!  I wonder what image that conjures up in your mind?  Coming into my 60th year, perhaps of an aging rocker doing air guitar while head banging to loud music!  But while rock music is part of my eclectic musical tastes, that’s not what I mean. ...

He sat down in front of the young adult group one Sunday evening.  An Australian whom our minister had got to know.  Let’s say his name was Roger.  “Hello”, he began, “my name is Roger, I am a Christian and I am alcoholic”.  To the ears of a very naive young Christian...

I’ve always found the Bible a bit odd.  I mean, the beginning and the end.  No, not the kind of questions it raises when placed aside the story of the cosmos told by science.  I always found it odd in that it starts with a story of a garden.  And ends with a story of...

I was supposed to be on sabbatical till the end of this month.  But the restrictions on travel as well as the pastoral and missional demands of the COVID-19 lockdown has meant it rightly needed to be delayed.  No, I’m not asking for sympathy.  As God reminded me a few...

I spent some of my daily exercise out in the bluebell woods near my home a week or so back.  A wonderful carpet of blue, a heavy scent filling the air.  What a wonder - life being restored as the exceptionally warm April brings new life once more.  A wonderful...

I’ve taken to going on a short walk after lunch.  My once a day exercise as recommended in the government COVID-19 lock down advice.  Keeping an appropriate distance from other people of course. During the first week of the lockdown, on a beautiful blue-sky day I...

I have hesitated to write this month’s blog.  But this is a journey and so with fellow travellers I think I need to be honest.  I’ve been travelling quite a lot over the past month.  Some of it greener than others. I travelled “greenly” by train to the South Eastern...

While they might have disappeared from our headlines, replaced by different apocalyptic concerns over the spread of the Coronavirus, the forest fires in Australia have not gone away.  And with the hottest months of the summer to come, more are expected.  The images...

COP25.  Ring a bell?  No?  Well, I mentioned it in my last blog before Christmas.  I know, I know.  That’s an age away.  Your attention might have been elsewhere - there was an election on after all.  And things around churches get frantic in the run up to Christmas,...

You might have noticed, there’s a general election on.  And I’ve been wondering; how long do promises made in the run-up to an elections last?  A long as the Parliament?  Perhaps a year?  A few months?  Up to when the doors of the polling stations close?  A bit...