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31 March 2023
What’s your favourite comedy show on TV? Maybe it’s Fawlty Towers, where the eccentric Basil Fawlty attempts to manage a seaside hotel, which usually ends up in tense, rude and absurd encounters with customers and long-suffering spouses and staff. Apparently, the inspiration for Basil and Fawlty Towers came from John Cleese’s experience staying at a hotel and witnessing a hotel manager who saw customers as a hindrance, who merely got in the way of running the hotel well.
29 March 2023
We are pleased to welcome Kitty Turner to Wakefield Cathedral as our new Marketing, Communications and Digital Officer. Read on to find out more about Kitty, their experience and what they are looking forward to in their new role.
24 March 2023
This week we marked the third anniversary of the first Covid-19 lockdown in March 2020. The inevitable flurry of articles and media interviews included a degree of what is known as revisionism, an attempt, to a certain extent, to rewrite the events of those Spring days : was the lockdown too severe? Did it go on too long? Was it an unwarranted intrusion on our freedoms as citizens? The fact that these questions can be asked openly is a sign of a healthy civil society and to that extent the questions are to be welcomed. I think, though, that there are (at least) two problems with such revisionism.
15 March 2023
I wonder what you think is the hardest day for preachers? You might think it’s Christmas (it’s all been said before, surely?) You might think it’s Trinity Sunday (how do you make sense of the Christian belief that there are three persons but only one God?)
01 March 2023
Sunday 05 March is designated this year as Woman Composer Sunday, an initiative started in 2021 by the Society of Women Organists to encourage choirs and organists to perform music by female composers on the Sunday closest to International Women’s Day (08 March).
01 March 2023
Last week I was the guest speaker at “Holy Ground”, an informal Sunday afternoon service at Huddersfield Parish Church. I planned my talk some weeks beforehand, and chose to speak about Exodus 1 and 2.
22 February 2023
The past is never dead. It’s not even past.
That enigmatic comment of William Faulkner has been much on my mind this week. Today, 24 February, marks the first anniversary of the latest invasion of Ukraine by Russia (it is nearly ten years since Russia invaded and occupied the Crimea).
15 February 2023
As I write, 35,000 people are thought to have perished in the horrific earthquake in Turkey and Syria; it will be more by the time you read this. We instinctively feel shocked by such devastation, and those who have died are in the prayers of the cathedral community, as are those trying to bring them relief.
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