Category : Revd Paul

• Church Magazine ON-LINE

  23 February 2021

  Who is my neighbour?
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• Spirit Level

  08 June 2020

  This article is not about "The Virus". It is about what happens when enough people experience something so significant that what passes for our ‘normal life’ cannot cope any longer.
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• TIDES

  29 January 2020

  I perched on a lichen-tipped ledge on the side of the headland. Above me wheeled two over-attentive crows, hungry no doubt. Below me the strong tide was coming in, wave after wave. The long sands, where earlier I had walked, had been swiftly concealed again; the light-strewn shoreline of flotsam and pebbles and dog prints was being churned up and washed clean in the most beautiful fashion.
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• Christmas Presence

  09 December 2019

  I met him the other day along New Street; I’d know those eyes anywhere. I saw him again, fetching the ball when it almost landed on top of the Pavilion at Zeal (kicking it back to those lads on the Rec with a nifty move, he’s surprisingly quick). Some-one saw him trying to hitch a ride along the Venton Straight; the cars and the coaches and the Thompsons lorries kept passing by. He kept on walking
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• Moor Faith

  07 December 2019

  With the sort of year it’s been, here in the eastern shadow of the moor, there’s only one thing I can say in this final edition of the magazine for 2019 and the first of the new year – thank you.
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