Musings of a Clergy Child was written when Nell Goddard was a Theology student at Durham University. She grew up as the daughter of two ordained priests, who have had jobs ranging from Oxford chaplain to academic theologian to priest-in-charge of a central London parish. She is passionate about justice, ethics and feminism and is a co-founder of a Christian social justice society at Durham University, which is part of the national movement, 'Just Love'.
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Table of contents
- Clergy child’s lament
- Introduction
- Tips for clergy children
- Bring-and-share lunches are highly unpredictable
- Sometimes the smallest offerings have the biggest impact
- People will come in and randomly start dismantling your house
- Do not give out your address over the phone
- Boundaries are excellent things
- Don’t feel obliged to invite the entire congregation to your birthday party
- You will never realise how important your hospitality is until you’re on the receiving end of someone else’s
- Always lock the toilet door. A surprising number of people will just barge through closed ones
- Teach your parent to turn off their phone
- Make sure you check out the parish profile before your parent applies for a job
- Learn to accept strange gifts with grace
- You are, to all intents and purposes, the vicarage social secretary
- If someone’s coming to stay, make sure you’re informed well in advance
- It’s okay to grieve
- Don’t bother waiting for your parents before leaving church. It’s a waste of everyone’s time
- There are certain things you should never tell a caller
- Always carry ID. You never know when you might need to prove yourself
- Your love life will be a continual source of parish speculation
- Sometimes it’s just awful, but God is still good
- Forgive; it changes lives
- Letters
- A letter for the new clergy child
- A letter for clergy parents
- A letter for when the church has hurt you
- A letter for when you feel as if the church has stolen your parents
- A letter for when someone leaves
- A letter for when you feel inadequate
- Musings
- Coming home
- Dancing in the grey
- Confessions
- Chains
- Walking the forgiveness path
- Interrupted
- Trust and obey
- Hide-and-seek
- Be still
- Barefoot
- Battling
- Fingertip faith
- I prayed for a friend
- Here is love
- On being human
- Naked
- Out of the ashes
- At the feet of Jesus
- Without words
- Heaven has a climbing frame
- About the author