Have you heard of the Slow Farming Company? I have seen their signs near Clanville, just outside Castle Cary. As I understand the concept, slow farming and slow food are about finding a way of producing food that pays attention to and values the health of the soil and helps to sustain resilient ecosystems, accepting lower and slower yields than is the case with heavily industrialised and intensive farming practices.

As trailed here last month, there was a meeting of rural clergy on 1 September to discuss with the Diocesan  leadership the emerging shape of future ministry in multi-parish benefices like ours.

On 1 September, there will be a meeting for clergy involved in multiparish rural ministry in this diocese. The purpose of the meeting is to consider the future shape of ministry in benefices like  ours. More specifically, it is to consider a type of ministry which is labelled ‘oversight ministry’.

Is your body a finely-tuned machine? I recently read an interesting magazine article about human health. The author was critical of the approach of most modern medicine towards our bodily health. Medicine, he wrote, treats the body as if it is a complex machine...