‘You’re never alone with a Strand’ ran the once popular ad. Today, its haunting ambiguity lingers on, inviting reflection on the...

I am not usually in any kind of identifiable mood, or even frame of mind, when I sit down to write one of these blogs, or, if I am, and...

The hardest thing about writing a memoir is explaining to yourself, let alone to anyone else, why you wrote it. I envy the writers of novels

It is reported by the BBC[1] that a senior Russian military figure, Mikhail Khodarenok, a military analyst and retired colonel has, on a...

LISTEN: Nuclear weapons don't prevent war. What they do is create risks that any conflict can escalate into a nuclear one — by mistake

There are flowers along the way, yellow celandines, and the small insects of early Spring. These leave him, but the flies stay. They...

The last meal. It ends with a ritual which by its very strangeness is key to our understanding of what Holy Week is about. Jesus washes...

Authority and power are often conflated and confused. Before beginning to write this, I checked back on the story of Jesus before Pilate,...

In the current edition of the Church Times, we are given a stark portrayal of bullying as it is experienced in the Church today.

My child, when you come to serve the Lord, prepare yourself for testing. Set your heart right and be steadfast, and do not be impetuous...

Scrolling through twitter a couple of days ago, I came across this tweet ‘What would you tell your 18 year-old self?’ I suppose it very...

Book cover for 'In Such Times: Reflections on Living with Fear' by Lorraine Cavanagh

With all that’s going on in the world right now, the things which we fear in regard to war and disease especially, but also the small...

Our candle-lit carol service, last night, was in every way conducive to the contemplation of God. The church wasn’t even freezing cold....

I bought a copy of The Big Issue yesterday, the first in a long time. I was a bit shocked at the increase in price. Then came a mixture...

I have just come from a country where the commercial machinery of Christmas seems to be already operating at full capacity, in a remote...

‘Those resisting responsibility will hear blame’ writes one of the respondents to my last post. They may, but whether they hear it or...

At the end of yesterday’s edition of Radio 4’s ‘Woman’s Hour’, Emma Barnett has her guests, John Humphries and Jon Snow, cornered like...

I had one of those moments, yesterday, when life could have taken a radical turn for the worse, or even ended altogether. In fact, it was...

It suits the powerful not to know what people’s lives are really like, so they use all means available to them to make the people they...