Category: Chapter Letter

Holy Week There are so many things to confront within ourselves and as part of what it is to be human, in the journey through Holy Week. We witness a…

Woman at the Well If you regularly listen to Radio 4’s Sunday Worship, which airs at 0820 on a Sunday morning, you may have heard Dr Pat Bennett speak about…

As we begin this Lent, the world seems to be in need of the good news of Jesus Christ even more than usual. Both the concerning spread of Corona Virus…

It did not take long for the Church to canonise Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln: just twenty years after his death in 1220. Perhaps it was not that surprising considering that…

We’re all Jock Tamson’s Bairns I write this letter on 31 January 2020: the clock at the top of my screen is counting down towards 11pm, and the time when…

On the first visit I made to the Holy Land I remember being struck by how things didn’t ever quite appear the way I expected them to be. Unsurprisingly there…

It has been heartening that over the last few days so many people have commented positively about the Cathedral’s Christmas celebrations of the birth of the Christ Child. Many have…

The next few weeks brings to an end a year which has been a very difficult and challenging one. This is true for many of us on a personal level,…

Precious Advent time allows us to reflect and wait on the wonder of Christ’s coming amongst us With the Christmas Market in full swing we warmly welcome worshippers and visitors…

The last Sunday of the Church year rightly reflects on Jesus crucified, risen, ascended and glorified. This Jesus is not only the judge of all creation, but our friend, brother…

A Time of Remembering November is a time of remembering: on this Remembrance Sunday we say, yet again, We will remember them. And that theme of remembrance runs throughout the…

Remember to say ‘thank you’. As a child, many was the time I left the house with those words from my mother ringing in my ears: remember to say ‘thank…