June 2025

Mulling over the prospectus of the boarding school to which I was bound, my father discovered that one of the hobbies on offer was printing, and he encouraged me to give it a try. Some weeks later I turned up at the ramshackle building which housed the school printing press and signed on as an apprentice. Older pupils explained what was in store. One tradition, having your head tapped against the polished flat stone used to level the type sounded scary. But there was a genuine treat to anticipate, the Wayzgoose, the annual printers’ feast. I was told that to...

Some time ago – a parishioner of St Nicolas Cranleigh - I can’t remember who – said to me: “I can never get my head around the Trinity.” I went on thinking about that for some days and realised that I couldn’t get my head around the Trinity either.

So on this Trinity Sunday morning, it is right for us all to go back to basics and look at what we understand by “the Trinity”. The actual concept of the Trinity does not occur in Scripture. It is a doctrine formulated by the early Church Fathers, based on their experiences...

Before training for the ministry I was a Primary School teacher. One my reasons for opting to teach young children was the sheer exhilaration I experienced when one of the pupils would suddenly comprehend something they had not understood before. I loved to see the expressions of their faces when suddenly; ‘the penny dropped’. This was made all the more special when a child who struggled to comprehend even the most basic of things overcame what seemed impossible to them. Their joy and mine was great.

Peter, was one of these children. Nothing came easy to him including bodily co-ordination...