[10] co-consecrating the first female bishops in England,[11][12] Elizabeth Stuart, in Scotland,[13] in Northumbria,[14] and Wales,[15] and offering the Mass to all by post.
[21][22] Blake embarked on a hitchhiking journey to Calcutta, that saw him tear-gassed in Teheran and seized by machine gun-toting guards in Kabul.
In 1991, he was convicted of Criminal Damage for a Gulf War Protest losing his appeal,[25] and meeting with the Pope about inter-faith work and peace.
In the same year, he nailed 95 theses to the door of Canterbury Cathedral, calling for reform of the Church, akin to Martin Luther, for which he was arrested but not charged.
[44] In 1987, he organized and led an international group of fifty young people from twelve different faiths on a journey of reconciliation from London to Auschwitz and then to Moscow.
[47] He has been putting up Christmas lights since 2002, at first for Save the Children, but since 2019, to install water in four Gambian villages, as well as to provide school supplies, sports equipment and shoes,[48] and raising so far £79,000.
[53] He worked as a Curate in Bradford, where he wrote the lyrics for and produced a musical on the life of Saint Francis of Assisi, which was performed at the University theatre [54] and Rochester, where, as Chaplain, he began the first inter-faith chapel at St Bartholomew's Hospital.