Graham Kings St Stephen Harding, a 12th-century monk from Sherborne, Dorset, wrote the two-page constitution of the monastery in Cîteaux, France. He urged the founding of further houses, including the first Cistercian women’s monastery.
A poem for Christmas
An address delivered on 3rd November 2014 in Hooker’s Church, St Andrew’s Boscombe, Wiltshire where Hooker served 1591-95.
Dr Graham Kings, now Bishop of Sherborne, wrote this review in 1994 for the International Bulletin of Missionary Research. Fulcrum is republishing it, with permission, in the light of the current crisis in the Middle East.
Too often accused of being ‘never knowingly understood’, Rowan Williams has written a lucid book for lay people on the basics of Christianity.
Sermon given at the Civic Service, St James’s Church, Poole, Dorset, Sunday 3 August 2014
Formed in the image and likeness of God, We rejoice;
Fired by violence and facing away, We recoil;
A Litany for Trinity Sunday
A litany for Pentecost
Sins aren’t erased
by a finger pushing the cancel button:
they’re absorbed
by a body pushed around and broken.