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Category Archive for 'Church'

A choirboy’s tale continued

Posted in Childhood, Choirboy, Church on Oct 16th, 2010

My second appearance in the choir was a dismal affair. Not because I performed badly or anything like that but because it was Good Friday. In honour of the solemnity of the day the church took on the aspect of a funeral parlour and everybody was dressed in unrelieved black. The only white visible were [...]

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The choirboy’s tale

Posted in Childhood, Choirboy, Church on Oct 10th, 2010

My first appearance as an angelic choirboy went without a hitch. Let out of Sunday school a whole ten minutes early, I sprinted round the church to the vestry to don cassock and surplice. Once dressed I lined up with the other boys to be inspected by the Rector’s wife. Unruly hair was combed, finger nails [...]

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The debut of an angelic choirboy?

Posted in Childhood, Church, Singing on Oct 3rd, 2010

The next major event in the life of now bespectacled Malcolm was my eighth birthday. Of course every birthday was important, not least because I always got a card from Granddad in Cheshire with a ten shilling note inside and a card with a postal order from Nana and Granddad in Sidmouth. Being eight, however [...]

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A statement…

Posted in Abuse, Childhood, Church on Sep 13th, 2010

I don’t tend to invoke politics or religion here on the Old Midhurstian Blog but I feel the need to make a point about the forthcoming Papal visit to the UK and the issue of clerical abuse. It’s very easy to get sucked in to the media furore surrounding the increasingly distressing revelations of systematic [...]

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I invite all opinions on this important issue…

Posted in Abuse, Church, Faith on Mar 29th, 2010

I am, as you know, not afraid of controversy and so I’m taking a brief sabbatical from my usual introversion to address an issue that I find deeply troubling and to which I would like some honest answers. Before I start I would like to make it clear that I do not mock faith and [...]

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