About Thinking allowed
I’m Simon Kershaw and I recently retired after working in the software industry for several decades, mostly in Cambridge, before which I read physics at Oxford. I still write software and maintain websites in my free time. I’ve been married to Karen for over 35 years, and we have two adult children and two grandchildren. Karen and I are long-time members of All Saints’ Church, St Ives, where Karen sings in the choir, I’m a server and bell ringer – and we are both PCC members. I’m also Lay Chair of the Ely diocesan synod, a lay canon of Ely Cathedral and a member of the Liturgical Commission of the Church of England.
Thinking allowed is a place for me to write occasional pieces on topics that take my interest. Over the last 15 years this has largely been about liturgy and bellringing, but in the future I shall probably include other subjects, such as issues of social justice and liberal Christianity; church architecture; computer software; typography, books, heraldry, Little Gidding, and perhaps other stuff too.
The title alludes to the Thinking Anglicans blog, which I have helped run since it began in 2003. It indicates that the important things in life — faith and morals, politics, art, even work, have to be thought about and considered critically, not just accepted without debate: we are allowed to think. It’s also, of course, a pun on the idea that here I am simply thinking aloud — that these are often just rough, unfinished thoughts.
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