I have been storing this for a while. Really what I should do is link up to Stephen Cherry’s blog during Lent and stop blogging. What he writes is brilliant: outlined with lots of space, simplicity, but very deep.

All …

So, after doing loads of school assemblies about Lent and getting children to think of ideas that might help them appreciate Lent, I decided to do something.

Well, I decided to ‘do’ something unproductive.

I decided to read a book. …

Well, this could be for any day I guess. But I think this is for this Lent when we seem to get our validation around ‘getting things done’ or subduing Time to our time.

I have had this saved for …

Nothing here about spagheti trees or treacle mines (fondly remembered April Fools on TV of my youth) or even about a Government of millionaires that rewards the rich for their mistakes by cutting help to the poor (…

I think I am drawn to Good Friday most of all.

Don’t get me wrong: I believe in Easter Sunday, resurrection and hope

But to stay with ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’ rather than chant hollow …