Month: January 2010

Luke 2:29 “Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word”. The service of Choral Evensong, which we are taking part in this afternoon is one of the great glories of Anglican Christianity. Derived as it is from a conflation of the ancient offices of Vespers and Compline  and blending wonderful… Read more »

In the annual cycle of life at the Theological Institute we are about to hit the curacy interviews and I was reminded of the story of a young deacon who was asked by his rector to go and do some visits in a local nursing home. When he got there he soon realised that one… Read more »