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

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.

I admire those who can claim that Lent is a time of renewal and refreshment. Right now, I doubt many of us can think of it in that way,...

Today is the feast of Michaelmas, the beginning of the season of the angels. As a child, I did a fair bit of travelling, usually on small...

Matt. 16:13-20; Is. 51:1-6; Rom.12:1-8 “Who do you say that I am?” Most Sundays, it’s quite clear which text is the one the sermon should...

Sermon for the 6th Sunday after Trinity Matt.13:24-30; 36-43 Two sermons about seeds and sowing on two consecutive Sundays. Someone is...

We watched the first instalment of Alan Bennet’s ‘Talking Heads’ (currently streaming on BBC i-player) last night, starring the...

It seems that these endless weeks of bounded freedom, the only name I can think to give to this period of lockdown, are drawing to a...

Pentecost is upon us, the season of fire and purgation. Is this what we are seeing in Minneapolis? The anger is righteous, though the...

There is a monumental twitter and facebook spat going on at the moment, having to do with whether and where it is or isn’t right to...

There was no internet connection this morning. Like many people, I find being unexpectedly cut adrift in this way frustrating but this...