My fortieth birthday party at All Hallows' Vicarage, Leeds 1. Head of Steam The front of the College at Ripon - it is a listed building,...

1. 1983: The Year of Coincidences What are ‘meaningful coincidences’? Sceptics would say that we experience so many interactions in our...

Having completed the blog about the ten highlights of my childhood, I am going to continue the process for each decade of my life. And so...

Last week’s election, apparently, resulted in the worst defeat for the Conservatives since 1832 (and it followed the 2019 election which...

Family photo, c 1958. On the left are Auntie Pam and cousin Patricia. My Dad is at the back. My Mum and brother Andrew are on the right....

The subconscious is a strange and wonderful thing. I have been interested in dreams and what they tell us since reading the work of Carl...

I have written a short novel with the title Diamond Jubilee. It starts out as a nostalgic look at the blues/rock music of the 1960s. It...

My daughter is 15 months old! When Natalie was half way through her pregnancy with Bea back in November 2021, I wrote in my blog,...

See the file below for the text of the talk. It was given at the Centre for Marian Studies meeting to receive honorary fellows, on the...

The third series of the BBC version of His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman’s trilogy from the 1990s, finished last week. Like J.K....

A few weeks ago, I was struck by something the priest said in his homily at Mass. In writing critically about it, I am not criticising...

My book Mary, Founder of Christianity was published on the 7th of April this year by Oneworld Publications. It was an exciting moment; I...

In the Theatre Beatrice Violet was born at 11.56 a.m. on Friday March 18th. Natalie had a planned Caesarian because of a previous...

This last week or so, the news has been pretty terrible. How did the human race get here? Some of the problems of history arise from how...

In my childhood in the 1950s and 60s, I was brought up with a myth about the Britain into which I was born. It went something like this: -...

They shall name him Emmanuel, which means, ‘God is with us’. Forgive me for a sermon, but it is Advent! These words are quoted from...

I married Natalie when aged 62. We both agreed that we wanted children, although we didn’t think it would take this long! In July of this...

Natalie wanted a cheesy film binge on Hallowe’en and opted for Hocus Pocus. Unfortunately, she was stymied by the fact that the internet...

Was Anne Boleyn black? The answer, based on portraits of her, is no. But the question relates to the current Channel 5 series on the...

It looks like a headline in one of those cheap magazines you find lying about in the hairdresser’s, doesn’t it? It's true in my case,...