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mystic cactus
For the past year, the One-Minute Mystic, my weekly meditations, have been posted here. See the whole series, with one meditation for each week of the year.
the village
Also see The Village, the story of Misty Longings, England's most beautiful village, posted episode by episode during 2008.
 
Church Times columns

Here are my more ancient columns in the Church Times...

Apostrophe's end
Entertaining fools
Yesterday's news
When times are hard
Gin crazy

Kill the referee!
Hyena hopes
Stress fracture
Friends, Romans, Countrymen
Retiring royal poets

Pistols at dawn
Light entertainment
Getting used to it
Mild criticism
The furniture of life

Keeping calm
Retreating futures
Suffering saints
A child is born
Shattering news

Slings and arrows
My beating heart
Squat thrusts
The tragic yoghurt
Calling time on Satan

Sham with everything
A man for all seasons
Educating Billy
An African sunrise
The guru's son

The incredulous journey
Lurid details
The bullet magnet
A hurtful violence
The paper shop

The redemption of rage?
The halo effect
The yellow bugle
Dire tribes
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

Painting bubbles
A game of two scarves
It's a Boys' Own world
Gladiators
Horse sense

How sound is your bite?
Looking good
The Messiah and PE
The new abolitionists
What a Charlie!