The Reverend Peter S. Paine was brought up in the same rectory in the Norwich Diocese as his father was born in and lived as incumbent. He attended Kings College London (BD, AKC) and Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge (MA). He served two curacies in Leeds (St Aidan’s) and Harrogate (St Wilfrid’s) before his appointment as Vicar of Holy Spirit Beeston Hill in south Leeds where he was married to Carol in 1979. After serving for eight years in the Seacroft Team Ministry in east Leeds, the family of four children moved to Martham in Norfolk where Peter was incumbent of a benefice of four rural parishes for fourteen years. His last post was the benefice of Repton with Foremark and Newton Solney in the Derby diocese. He is now retired and living on the Lancashire coast.

My first book, Crumbs for the Journey: A Short Anthology of Spiritual Reflections, was published by New City Press (London) in 2019.