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Bishop Martin is looking forward to singing some Christmas Carols
In his 'lockdown' column this week, Bishop Martin is planning ahead
While church services are curtailed, The Rt Rev Martin Seeley, Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, is writing a weekly article for readers.
Before we moved to Suffolk we kept a few bantams. Rather sporadically, they produced delicious small eggs.
We know about exercise, even if we don’t actually do it. We know about medical check ups, and we are pretty good at paying attention to these.
“Let’s go for a walk this afternoon.” This innocent sounding invitation, usually asked by my wife, gets me thinking. Surely I had a sermon to work on, or a visit to make, or even a deadline for a newspaper column to meet?
It has suddenly become chilly, and we know autumn is here for sure. Putting the clocks back signalled the change, and with the evenings drawing in, time feels somehow different
A good deal of what I do as a bishop involves food. So far that has ranged from a simple sausage roll to a succulent hog roast, from coffee and a biscuit (preferably chocolate) to a four course sit down dinner.
We are all still reeling from the shooting of Jo Cox, MP for Batley and Spen in Yorkshire. She was shot outside the library in the town of Birstall where she had been meeting constituents. She is the first sitting MP to be killed since 1990.
What have the Queen’s 90th birthday, the Archbishop of Canterbury learning the identity of his father, and my father got in common?
I remember quite vividly when I was a teenager, the vicar of the church I attended preaching on the Sunday after Easter about Jesus’ resurrection.
Last week I was challenged by someone who believed the Church should see its role as increasing people’s happiness.
