Empty quotation marks on a gray background

That’s the art, eh? What to say, and when to say it. And the rest is silence

Two chairs in a room with wooden walls and flooring, one pink and one draped with a colorful fabric.
A collection of seven photographs: a close-up of two hands clasped, a person standing on a hill with arms raised at sunset, two signs with smiling and frowning faces, a vintage pocket watch with a chain on handwritten paper, a boat on calm water at sunset, a tent in a dark forest, and colorful balloons floating in the sky.
Person holding out their hands with a small yellow flower resting on their palms.

Bob is a Methodist Minister who has worked in circuit and in chaplaincies within high-secure psychiatric settings and hospice. Between 2017 and 2022 Bob lived in France, where he and his wife Sue ran a small centre for reflection and hospitality. They have now returned to the U.K. and live in Scotland.

  • Bob's particular interest is in encouraging a reflective style in ministry using creative methods.

    His written publications draw on his experience of hospice chaplaincy, and an honest reflection about his reaction to this work.

  • 2015 Voices from the Hospice, (SCM).

    2011 Reflective Caring: Imaginative listening to Pastoral Experience (SPCK)

    With Karen Murphy, he has also edited: 

    2021 Two Grains of Wheat - a novel about breakdown which includes supervision scenes

    2017 Chaplaincy in Hospice and Palliative Care (Jessica Kingsley)

  • Bob continues to be fascinated by the process of pastoral supervision and has worked as a lead trainer with the Methodist Church as it rolled out its supervision programme for those in ministry in the U.K.

    He is also co-trainer with supervision courses offered through Wesley House, Cambridge.