Mostly Knitting – Sometimes Theology

  • Visiting churches

    Visiting churches

    Most people who have heard me talk about church buildings will know that I’m not a big fan of them, at least, not in the way people expect a vicar to be. I do not generally enjoy visiting church buildings. Over the years, many congregation members have assumed that I (and presumably every other member…

  • Knitting project round-up September 2023

    Shall we just say that the last two years of knitting projects were appropriately recorded elsewhere? Let’s do a round-up of the currently active projects. Rainbow socks These were started back in February and were my Synod knitting for the big LLF debates. They have moved very slowly, although have accompanied me everywhere I went…

  • Apologetic Buildings – Introduction

    Think about the last time you walked into a church building: not your own church building, but one that was new to you. What did you notice? What information was there for you to read or listen to? What did you learn? My guess is that you learned something about the significance and history of…

  • Study Leave 2023

    As I write this, I am two weeks into a three-month period of study leave. I’ll be sharing this blog with my parishes, so some people may be wondering quite what this is all about. Here’s what the diocesan guidance says about it: The purpose of Extended Study Leave (ESL) is to offer clergy office…

  • State of the yarn

    Earlier this month I spent a day off doing a “tossing of the stash”, as recommended by the Yarn Harlot. I got everything out of the various bags and boxes it lives in and had a good, honest look at what was there. The yarn is well organised already, but I emptied each box to…

  • Reading update

    Breakfast reading So, the plan for reading more is working better than I thought. Breakfast reading tends to happen on the days when I am getting up with the kids but not needing a shower before taking J to school. After Paula Gooder’s book Body, I tried one of my preaching books, So everyone can…

  • Reading – a plan for 2021

    My younger self would be aghast at the need for a plan to include reading in my routine. Reading books has been as natural to me as breathing for as long as I can remember. However, various things have brought me to the point where there are some days when I don’t pick up a…

  • 2021 – a new start?

    Although I have been very lax at blogging over the past few years, I have, in fact, been writing more regularly than ever. It’s just that I write at 750words.com rather than coming here. That has the advantage of being not for others’ eyes and so much less stressful to write. I do like writing…

  • Lockdown Hour of Craft

    We are four months plus into lockdown now. I made it to my summer break from work thanks to some wise advice from a mentor or two and being told to add an extra week onto the front of my previously booked holiday. So that meant having three weeks to fill for me as well…

  • New Year, new resolve

    I was reading the Yarn Harlot’s post this evening in which she talks about having a list for New Year’s Day in which you try and do a little of all the things you hope to do during the year. While I don’t think that it would have much of an effect on what actually…