Simon Parke is a writer, therapist and retreat giver, and was previously a Church of England priest for 20 years, a script-writer for Spitting Image and a Sony award-winning radio writer before working for three years in a supermarket. He writes weekly columns in the Daily Mail ( One-Minute Mystic ) and the Church Times. His books include Pippa s Progress, a modern-day re-telling of John Bunyan s classic.