by Maggy Whitehouse | Jul 17, 2021 | Spirit
If you have a name that contains only one different letter from that of someone famous, that person is always going to loom large in your life. The human brain will leap to the familiar every time. It might not be so bad if you were called George Glooney or Merl...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Oct 13, 2020 | Spirit
Chapter Two (there’s a reason why it’s chapter two and not chapter one – trust me on this 🙂 ) It’s not a good idea to wake up in a mortuary. It’s likely that there will be an awful lot of screaming. In my experience, it’s not necessarily the mortuary...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Jun 22, 2020 | Spirit
Introduction and Chapter One below. We must try to understandthe meaning of the agein which we are called to bear witness.We must accept the factthis is an age in whichthe cloth is being unwoven.It is therefore no good tryingto patch. We must, rather,set up the loom...
by Maggy Whitehouse | Feb 14, 2020 | Spirit
It’s Holy Week, so it’s as good a time as any for bringing up the matter of Judas. Loads of people nowadays ask whether he was as bad as he was painted or whether he’s a scapegoat for Judaism. There’s The Gospel of Judas and, most likely, Rev....
by Maggy Whitehouse | Oct 2, 2019 | Spirit
When you’re a vicar, you get used to the feeling that every time you walk into a room an elephant walks in with you. I’m used to mine now, he’s called Gordon and he drinks. It’s probably the embarrassment of the company he keeps. Maybe...
