October 2020

"View from the Study ..."

It is finally happening! After a long journey with many unexpected twists and turns I will be ordained priest on 26th September 2020 at St Mary’s and All Saints’ Whalley ....

September 2020

"Are we nearly there yet? ...."

‘Are we nearly there yet?’ I remember a friend telling me that, having set off from Chorley, they’d got as far as Wigan when this question was first asked .....

July 2020

"View from the Study ..."

What a difference a few weeks make! I am back in Grimsargh after seven weeks in a holiday flat in Blackpool. I am looking out over the field in front of the Vicarage in Grimsargh ....

July 2020

"Lockdown, Changes and The Fellside Focus Magazine ...."

It’s been very strange times for us all with so much of what take for granted suddenly stopped; add to that a whole new raft of things we’ve had to take on to keep ourselves and each other as safe as can be ....

St Mary's Vision and Money

"Vision and Money"

Vision and money often go together – to do new things often costs money, though not always. It’s easy to be so caught up in the bottom line that we forget to look to see what the money we commit achieves – and sometimes things we commit ourselves to don’t cost as much as we think .....