Blog - Unadulterated Love

I “do” theology by weaving together different threads and spheres of interest.

One centre of interest, the one most related to “orthodox” theology, is informed by contemporary books analysing the health and sickness of the Church of England.

I have already written a blog about Adrian Thatcher’s Ending Abusive Theologies

My first blog about Stephen Kuhrt’s book

I have just finished reading Stephen Kuhrt’s book ‘Safeguarding the Institution: How the Culture of the Church of England Facilitates Abuse’. Stephen is the Vicar of the Parish of New Malden and Coombe in the Diocese of Southwark and the book, published in 2025, is an account of his experience of safeguarding and the failures and weaknesses of the culture of the Chur...

I had a long, detailed dream a few days ago

I was standing in a church at the back of the congregation. The church was like a Cornish church, broad and wide, with a screen similar to rood screen across the full width. I had the sense that there was

A priest or leader was at the front talking with the congregation. I speak and am included in a conversation with t...

I’m writing this on the twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11. On the morning of 11rh September 2001 I was discussing the design of the Changing Attitude website with Bertrand Olivier in his vicarage at St Barnabas Southfields. It’s the church where I had been baptised and confirmed, been inspired by Peter Hand the then incumbent, later, abused by a curate and later still, learnt ...