For five years, I attended a postgraduate seminar group two or three times a year.  The twenty-eight hour Gatherings, from 10 am on a Monday until 2 pm on a Tuesday were always a stimulating experience. The intention was that I would register for a PhD, with Ordinary theology, the everyday beliefs of ordinary people, being the research field. The gatherings provided an experience thoroughly other than the daily reality of parish work and although theology, ordinary or otherwise, is now a thing of the past, and I would never …