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Sunday 13 May 2012

Bishop Graham attended the Dorchester churches Christian Aid pic-nic in the Borough Gardens. See his comments on the Christian Aid YouTube clip.

Tuesday 1 May 2012

Dorset Charity Celebrates Funding Boost with the Bishop of Sherborne
The Bishop of Sherborne, Bishop Graham, who is a patron of the Foundation, joined Tina Baker, our Chief Executive, to present Bob Eccleshall and staff from Youth Resource Services with a cheque for £5,000 on the 1st May at the charity's premises in Sherborne. See the full story here.

Sunday 8 April 2012
Bishop Graham's reflection, his poems for Holy Week:

Easter Sunday

Rabbouni

Who is this woman facing this man?
Head lightly inclined,
eyes wide open, gazing;
hands uplifted, palms upward, surprised;
gorgeously arrayed.

Who is this man facing this woman?
Coming from the right,
profile clear, bearded;
hand outstretched, palm down;
gloriously appareled.

Behind her, two angels hover
reflecting her shape:
behind him, scented trees lean
setting the scene:
below her, a dark opening hints.
All silent witnesses.

The eyes have it:
focus of tension and attention.
One word awakes her: 'Mary'.
One word responds: 'Rabbouni'.

Their hands shape a triangle
at the centre of meeting:
her two, shocked and suppliant;
his one, blessing, calming, sending.

Holy Saturday

The Pause

Sentences, like people,
need spaces to breathe.
Between the full stop
and the Capital
lies the pause.

Without the space,
sentences are breathless;
without the Sabbath,
life is restless;
without the pause,
the rest is lifeless.

Sentences, like God,
have a preferential option
for the pause.

Good Friday

First Written Gospel

Jesus the Sacred, tried before Pilate;
Pilate, the scared – trial before Caesar?
Jesus, entitled to justice from Rome,
entitled by Pilate, ‘The King of the Jews.’

First written Gospel, translated for all,
title deeds of the Kingdom of God;
proclaimed to the city, unchanging Word,
‘What is written, is written’, bequeathed to the world.

Maundy Thursday

Gethsemane and the Trinity

by Graham Kings

Conflict is stranger than fiction;

Love is stronger than faction;

God is no stranger to conflict.

God is stranger than we know,

stronger than we feel,

weaker than we think,

wider than we imagine.

The cup of Gethsemane

is the cup of the Trinity.

Wednesday 28 March 2012
An article by Bishop Graham, Communion Connections: Web of Mutuality or Fragmentation? was published on Fulcrum, the full text may be seen here.

Saturday 24 March 2012
Bishop Graham consecrated the extension to the churchyard at St Mary's Sixpenny Handley. A photographic record of the event may been see here, in the gallery.

Thursday 22 March 2012
Bishop Graham attended the Bear Grylls 'Mud, Sweat and Tears' presentation at the Bournemouth International Centre. After the event the Bishop had time with Bear - The Chief Scout. They are pictured at the event.

Sunday 11 March 2012
Bishop Graham commented on the Anglican Communion in discussion with Ed Stourton and Dairmaid MacCulloch on BBC Radio 4's 'Sunday' Programme.
The transcript of the discussion can be seen here.

Wednesday 29 February 2012
Bishop Graham gave a lecture in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge: Henry Martyn Missionary Scholar for our Age.
The text of the lecture may be seen here.

Sunday 26 February 2012
The Bishop of Sherborne becomes a Patron Bishop to 'Yes to the Covenant': see the site and Bishop Graham's quote here.

Saturday 25 February 2012
The Bishop of Sherborne's article republished, with permission, from The Times, Credo Column, "Lent is a Time to Keep a Journal of Your Spiritual Travels", may be seen here.