A Recent Testimony from Someone Called to Ministry Early Years: Roots I Didn’t Yet Understand When I look back, I can see beginnings that I didn’t recognise at the time. I grew up in a close and rather sheltered Christian community where church, school and family all overlapped. It was a warm world, mostly kind, sometimes claustrophobic, and full of people who thought in similar ways. I took...
This is a testimony of the Vicar at Holy Trinity Frome at our mens group this evening Thursday 13 Nov 2025 My journey to becoming a vicar has never been straightforward. In many ways, it has meandered its way through places, experiences, and churches that were sometimes joyful, sometimes painful, and often surprising. Looking back, I realise nothing about my story was predictable, but nearly...
It is very seldom that I attend a funeral but this one was of a friend that I was getting to know and who passed from us very recently, so we met in the chapel that I call my anchor point for worship which is Withyditch Chapel near Peasedown. There were few faces known to me as many were relatives of the deceased who did not live in the area but one or two people greeted me by name and this made...
Mike HIll is a retired Bishop from the diocese of Bristol and gave us a talk at this morning's Christian Mens Breakfast in Frome. You can see his blog here. ............................................................... It's great to be here with you, and I want to talk to you a little bit about something that the old preachers called assurance. And that is something that, to the secular...
To set the scene, here’s a bit of context for what follows. I scan the Mendip Times each month to see what is going on. You would have thought that after my major effort yesterday in Stanton Drew I would have had enough of writing, but that's not the way it works with me. If I write a good piece then that stimulates me to write more, so in my search today Sunday we noticed a small entry...
August 25 2025 By coincidence I also came across this video, relevant to the morning's mood. A humorous song entitled 'I Can't Wait for the apocalypse' Put the two together and you have the catalyst for what follows: We have descended a long way from the supposed idyllic existence in the Garden of Eden, which, although it happened a long time ago, has considerable power of symbolism. When you...
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