The Prayer Book Platonist includes books, homilies and articles broadly on the themes of:

  1. The tradition of the Church of England’s Book of Common Prayer – not just 1662, but its various precursors and increasingly international successors, not least the Prayer Book of the Japanese Anglican Church.
  2. The broadly Platonic strand of Christian and Islamic thought and its rich spirituality, including the likes of Pseudo-Dionysius, Augustine, Eckhart, Ibn Arabi, the Cambridge Platonists and more recently, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.
  3. Sundry Japonica, including Aikido, the shakuhachi, and inter-faith theological explorations of Japanese Buddhism, particularly that of the Shin (True Pure Land) school.

The author insists that the apparent eccentricity of these interests does in fact converge into a unified whole… AMDG!

Pentecost: Through void, womb and tomb, the Spirit breathes
via https://youtu.be/lii-Ss4CZko
Through void, womb and tomb the Spirit breathes
Pentecost 2020 The first thing a flute like my shakuhachi needs to make a sound is space: the empty space
What comes down must go up
Homily for Lichfield Cathedral School on the Feast of the Ascension The natural law says, “what goes up must come
Your parish church is not an idol: it’s an icon
The Twitter mantra seems so obviously true at first glance. “Church is about people, not buildings.” Yet since the Archbishop
Covenant: Life Without Mark or Measure
One for the Tolkien fans! The Coronavirus shows the secular world, stripped of sacred markers, in all its dull greyness...
That cross looks heavy…
Jesus was crucified so that we do not have to be. Yet we all carry a cross. We are weighed
True Joys
What is our heart's desire? How can we find out? Homily on readings at Mass for the Fourth Sunday after
Gospel 2: The Gospel of the Thessalonians
Second in the Greater Silence video series on the Gospel.
What hath Gotham to do with Jerusalem?
A Religious Studies video for KS3 pupils on why Jesus is like Batman. 
Church buildings, Eucharistic participation and pastoral care
Participation in the Eucharist is much more than just receiving Communion: in fact, the whole cosmos takes part in its

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