Yesterday was a great but long day and varied in London.

I met Barry and Duncan in the cafe of the British Library to talk about Duncan’s vision for using golf as a mission tool with young people. The idea sounds great and I will be watching with interest to see how things progress. I hope they do as it could reach a whole new group of young people.

I spent a large part the rest of the day in the British Library and became a reader (a surprisingly quick and easy operation)so that I can do a bit off research now and again (‘ark at me ..LOL!). I wanted to take the opportunity to look at some original Richard Hooker stuff, but I had not realised that I needed to be a bit more organised. It’s a library – I thought I could just pop in and take it off the shelf … but the books are more protected than that. So I will plan my next visit better and pre-request my books. I’ve heard a few people talk about theoir views on Hooker recently, and I thought it would be good to see what he actually wrote before considering others views on him.

I spent my time in the library, instead, tussling with my thoughts on Hope for tonight’s talk. I kind of got somewhere but was more able to bring them together this morning. I hope I’m able to inspire and challenge – actually I’m weirdly quite nervous about speaking at Rochester cathedral.

Last night was also the start of our next module. So I have 2 essays out of the way, and now have two more lists of titles to consider … life must go on!