How cool is this – I can blog from Kings School, Canterbury as I have a CAT lead and my room has a LAN connection. I guess this should be expected if you pay well over £7000 to send your child here.

The school is set in the grounds of the cathedral and if I walk out the front door I am about 10 strides away from the cathedral. This is such an amazing place to be. It’s a real privilege to be here, but we are all conscious of the cost involved in being here. It’s only Saturdayy night and I already miss Sarah,Tom, Beth and Joe! Others are missing their loved ones too.

I’m staying in Linacre house which use to be the home of Nelson’s brother, and apparantly Lady Hamilton danced on tables here! Maybe I’ll copy that before the week is out! Maybe not!

The first day has been ok – a good lecture from Paul Bradshaw, and some good worship in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral. He suggested that in the western world we have concentrated too much on representaional acts of easter, ie acting out the crucifixion in the same way we act out the Christmas story. I think he is right when he says we neglect the resurrection as we concentrate on the death. Instead of the 12 stations of the cross, what about 12 realities of resurrection?

I think Bradshaw has a point. We do over emphasise the crucifixion, and I think at the sake of the resurrection. WE don;t want to swing the other way – we need to re-establish the both and. The centre of our faith is the death AND resurrection of Jesus, not one or the other!

Tonight I even managed to escape the organised quiz night (me and organised just do not fit!) and went with just a couple of people, Jeremy and Nicola, to Simple Simons, agreatt little pub with good beer a great jazz band. I’m sure I’ll visit it again before the week is out!

Looks like the blog this week could be a good reflection for a week at vicar training school, which is far easier than filling out the paper journal I’m supposed to do!