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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the middle child of three boys and grew up in the village of Barton Seagrave near Kettering, Northamptonshire. My father, Nigel, followed his father, Keith, into shoe manufacturing.
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started playing the piano aged four in an effort to copy Grandpa, who was constantly showing off and entertaining us all, singing comic songs on his baby grand.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Grandpa Keith made shoes for Adam Faith and George Best. I was dazzled by such people. As a teenager, I was haunted by the idea of people living glamorously beyond my provincial horizons.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got lucky with my parents. They were unfailingly loving and supportive, which gave me confidence about my place in the world.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose I've always had a very genuine curiosity about religion. I loved the atmosphere of churches, the ethos; I adored Evensong.
- Clergy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born into the Church of England but in the most nominal way possible you can imagine, so it's Christmas and Easter. And then like a great many clergy in the Church of England I actually got nobbled by being a chorister.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the church I am very accountable, to the parish and the deanery; in the media thing I am not really accountable, I am out there on my own as a sort of busy, recognised religious person.
- Nov 07, 2020
I spend much of my time in a broadly liberal secular world but I don't belong to it, I belong somewhere else.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that Christians should have confidence, we have always been part of the mainstream conversation, and if we don't join in often what you hear gets hectoring and mad, just people on the margins.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any ambitions. I am looking forward to retiring, or at least having more time. When I was young I wanted more stuff, now I am older, I want more time.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally on a Saturday I come home wreathed in media glamour having interviewed a former Krankie or someone, and suddenly I am back in the world of orange blossom and bells.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
But it's true I hadn't realised quite how much the discipleship of Jesus Christ would involve keeping up with email.
- Christian
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not the first Christian to have a fruity past. I hesitate to compare myself to St Augustine or St Paul, but there is a precedent for this sort of thing.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dachshunds are not substitutes for children. But the pattering of tiny feet around the place is a joy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music has given me a decent pension. I am in that rare position for a clergyman of having some provision for my retirement. Thank you, young people of Europe.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not in favour of hierarchies that grant privileges to members who fail to uphold those values - there are plenty of those - but the monarchy is really the Queen, who is of unimpeachable integrity and the longest serving head of state in the world, and who never puts a foot wrong.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020