Well, having a dog collar around your neck is a bit strange! I was thinking this week that now, when I walk around in public, people might assume a number of things about me. They might think I’m on my way to a fancy dress party as a zombie vicar, they might cross the road or give me a dirty look because their experience of someone in a dog collar holds negative connotations, or it could be the opposite and some might be glad to see me and want to connect with me in that mome

I wonder how hopeful you’re feeling at the moment? I’ve spent some of the last half year, since lockdown started, feeling a bit hopeless at times to be honest with you. A grief at all the deaths, a frustration at times with the government, a pain at physical separation, with questions about church life and a sense of being confronted. Confronted with the reality of our fragility as humans, confronted with the inevitability of death and also with the melancholic realisation th