Many folk have asked me what it's like to be a bishop, and the short answer is that I feel I have been given a job with opportunities from heaven and a diary from hell! Let me expand a bit on that!
Exciting opportunities
The most exciting opportunity of the last year was probably just before Easter.
People have begun to describe me as 'the teaching Bishop' and with the agreement of my episcopal colleagues and the rural deans in my area of the diocese (East Sussex), I did a Lent course of five weeks in four different centres, Monday to Thursday each week, where I took people through John 13-17. These consisted of 45-50 minutes of exposition, broken up with a short discussion in the middle and an open question time at the end.
