Category: Chapter Letter

With news this week of a possible new spike in Covid-19 in Europe, the imposition of quarantine periods and the disappointment of many holiday plans cancelled, there has been something…

A phoenix rising from the ashes I was sorting through some old papers earlier this week and found a Fabric Inspection Report written six years ago by our Architect, Nick…

What are we here for? There has been much soul searching during lockdown about the nature of what it is to be the church. There have been heated exchanges about…

Not to be sniffed at I read this last week about how the way we “sniff” is a versatile form of communication! The simplest sniff is that of closure: at…

Doors open again for private prayer The Cathedral, along with many other churches the length and breadth of our country, opens on Monday (15 June) for private prayer. With the…

Continue Maya Angelou was a poet, singer and civil rights activist who worked with Martin Luther King. I offer her words into a week when the campaign #blacklivesmatter has been…

May the gifts of the Spirit equip us and guide us on our way. There has been a lot of talk about self-care, trauma and managing mental health in these…

We are all one on the journey of faith I write this on Ascension Day, one of the great “Red Letter Days” of the Church but now just another Thursday…

Rising to the challenge As I look from the window of my office in Minster Yard, I look over the North Green and what will soon be the Old Deanery…

As the Chapter Letter goes out today we are commemorating VE day 75. At 11am silence will be observed and Services held around the country as we remember and reflect.…

“They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.” The stories about the early Christians, as recorded in the Book of the…

Perfect love casts out fear It was lovely to receive a telephone call at the beginning of this week from good friends on the Wirral in Merseyside: we have known…