One of the (many) joys of being a priest in the @churchofengland.org is the sheer timescale you work with - presiding in a building that Vikings visited, using silverware that is older than the United States, telling a story in more or less the same way it's been told since Roman times...

A rock concert, a tattered jacket and a more sustainable way to shop. Check out our latest blog from rock fan and pre-loved fashion newbie James Watterson. jri.org.uk/a-tattered-j...

One of my very favourite poems

My 2025 album Murmuration is now on Spotify (and other music streaming services) enjoy 🥳 open.spotify.com/album/11D7dY...

Just writing tomorrow's sermon for Epiphany, reflecting on how the birth of Jesus subversively undercuts the power of authoritarian rule. Gosh, I wonder if there are any contemporary examples I could use...

Preaching, presiding, and playing the organ at Midnight Mass tonight was truly epic! for the first time I played rather than sang the last verse of O Come All Ye Faithful and it was everything 🎶WORD🎶

We're raising a glass to all those taking part in #ClergyMaltClub tonight. Thank you for all you do - and we wish you a very Happy Christmas. ⭐

Happy Christmas everyone! #ClergyMaltClub

"Ich askid ChatGPT." Well *Ich* askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

A new poem inspired by a conversation I had during my recent visit to Melanesia #poem #iambicpentameter #melanesia #anglican #library #MynaBirds

Today Bishop Sarah Mullally, nominated as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury, made her first address at Canterbury Cathedral. Watch the address at cofe.io/106thArchbishopAddress.

SHE HAS A NAME

NEW: Something remarkable happened recently and hardly anyone noticed – GB electricity demand was 100% covered by clean power We took a look at the data and this has happened for a record 87 hours in 2025 to date, twice as often as ever before 🧵 www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/7

1981, 1987, 2005, 2010 - what do they have in common? Nottinghamshire won the County Championship and England won the Ashes. Notts just won the County Championship again and the Ashes start in a few weeks... #JustSaying @trentbridge.co.uk @wisdencricket.bsky.social #CountyChampionship #Ashes

Kyle Verreynne seals the title in stupendous style, lofting a six to take us beyond 300 and banking the required batting points! #Champions25 🏆

I'm currently in the Solomon Islands getting to know the Anglican Church here and learning about the impacts of Climate Change here. This is a poem I wrote today reflecting on the last week of visits and conversations. #ClimateChange #Environment #CreationCare #SolomonIslands #Anglican #poetry #poem

The Umbilical Tree. #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Pacific #SolomonIslands

The Season of Creation begins tomorrow, and I'm just packing to head out to the Solomon Islands in behalf of Lichfield Diocese to see firsthand the impacts of Climate Change in the Pacific and the work the Anglican Church of Melanesia is doing in response #SeasonOfCreation #Melanesia #ClimateChange

I'm not sure who turned my words into a meme, and included U.S. citizens (most of whom do not want a new war!), but I appreciate how many people are connecting with it. May all of us, in all of our different situations, somehow help bring the justice this world so desperately needs. 💔

A glorious sunny afternoon watching the frogs and newts in the pond #frogs #newts #pondlife

We went to a garden centre this morning and I was struck by this matter of fact sign saying that this particular plant has been "bred to withstand our ever-increasing summer temperatures". Yet another symptom of the undeniable fact of climate change #ClimateChange #NetZero

Today, the Government launches plans to fast-track driverless vehicle trials in the UK. One of the companies involved says London presents a big challenge: “It has seven times more jaywalkers than San Francisco.” Except… it doesn't. 🧵

Today's GCSE History exam is on the twin topics of "Making America" and "Living Under Nazi Rule". Those two are much closer together at the moment than they ought to be...

A group of folks I'm part of who usually meet at the pub on a Tuesday night have hired the church hall and are putting in a concert for family and friends and it's wonderful! 3 songs each and some impromptu bands - amateur music is alive and well in this corner of the world ❤️

New drawing: ‘The artists whose work was used when you made a picture using AI, and how much they were paid’. One of ten drawings about AI from Diagram Club #042: open.substack.com/pub/diagramc...

I've been reading Bob Dylan's autobiography 'Chronicles' recently and it has inspired this song #BobDylan #Dylan #Songwriting #Americana #Chronicles www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5iE...

Bought a new (old!) instrument today - a Neapolitan bowl back mandolin. She needs new strings and a bit of a clean up but even in her current state she sounds great! I love learning new instruments 🎶

What a run chase! Great knock from Jack Haynes 💪

Thankfully, the village was evacuated already, but one person is missing and everyone else’s homes are destroyed. Make no mistake: this is a climate disaster.

After watching the Bob Dylan film A Complete Unknown recently I've had a crack at writing my own protest song! richclarksonpoetry.com/2025/05/24/p... #ProtestSong #BobDylan #ClimateChange #Hope #Songwriter

Where Robert Prevost, the new US-born Pope, stands on climate change: "Prevost is outspoken about the need for urgent action on climate change" collegeofcardinalsreport.com/evidence/car...

Pro tip: if you've got laryngitis don't listen to Paul Simon's Graceland album - it's impossible not to sing along and that's really not good for your voice 🤦 #fail

This letter from Tony Vaughan KC, the MP for Folkestone, is the clearest articulation I’ve seen on the flaws of the interim update from the EHRC. The section titled ‘Legal Incoherence’ hits the nail on the head.

It's always satisfying voting for the @greenparty.org.uk #LocalElections #ABetterWorldIsPossible #VoteGreen

No AI involved in the making of my new album, just paper and glue (and a few instruments!) #Songwriting #Music #NoAI

Getting mentioned in Wisden is a dream for many cricket lovers, sadly my cricketing abilities mean that a mention for my playing is unlikely, so I entered the writing competition instead! @wisdenalmanack.bsky.social @wisdencricket.bsky.social @lancscricket.bsky.social

It's Earth Day 2025. We have only one "single island planet home", as Pope Francis called it. He said we need an "ecological conversion". We must steward earth's resources equitably, and care for land, people & nature. This is not an optional extra, but an imperative for the mission of God's Church.

89% of world’s people want stronger action on climate but mistakenly believe they're in a minority 69% willing to contribute 1% of their income to the climate fight, & more than 50% in all but a few countries, but believed only a minority would also be willing www.theguardian.com/environment/...

New Poem: Laudato Si A Poem for Pope Francis, 1936-2025 richclarksonpoetry.com/2025/04/21/l... #PopeFrancis #Poetry #Sonnet

It was glorious to be at Lichfield Cathedral for the Chrism Eucharist today

Our present ecological crisis...has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience. Rowan Williams

Partial solar eclipse through a pinhole camera!

I'm looking forward to telling some tales from my time as a rural vicar next week - I'm not the Vicar of Dibley but it sometimes feels like it! #rural #ruralministry #VicarOfDibley

What a race that was! #MilanoSanRemo #Cycling #MvdP

Paper cut cover art for the new album - just need to finish recording it now!

St Patrick's Day I bind to myself today The power of Heaven, The light of the sun, The brightness of the moon, The splendor of fire, The flashing of lightning, The swiftness of wind, The depth of sea, The stability of earth, The compactness of rocks. open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...

New Poem: After Wordsworth I wait, as patient as the laden clouds that drift on by towards the distant hills. They journey high above the furrowed brow of fresh ploughed field, bearing their burden still... richclarksonpoetry.com/2025/03/16/a...

I have just signed this. I think it would be a grovel too far to invite him. Certainly his visit would cause national protests on an unprecedented scale.

Week off work, see you on the other side!

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