The difficulty lies in knowing what to think, despite all that has been said about how so many of us feel in regard to the events that took place on Capitol Hill earlier this week. They were unprecedented events, shocking, existentially disturbing. The attempted destruction of democracy; was it the end of civilisation as we know it, or the beginning of the end of the world, as some Christians will be thinking. “Bring it on” the millenarians among them will be saying. Or has Y

I read this morning of a mother in Hong Kong who is taking her daughter out of school. It seems that the Chinese authorities are tightening their grip on teachers and on what can or can’t be taught to children, especially in regard to the concept of freedom and the State. Then I read of all the things Donald Trump could do, or is doing, to de-stabilise global relations and undermine fragile peace accords in some of the most dangerously volatile areas of the world. As he sets

A story of enduring hope This is the last of 4 podcasts for Holy Week and Easter Sunday, designed to speak to the global pandemic crisis that we all face together. #selfisolating #pandemic #courage #beauty #joy #Easter #hope #Coronavirus #Resurrection #Jesus

The first thing I read or listen to tends to set my emotional course for the day ahead. By this I mean that whatever bit of news first appears on my screen, and my instinctive reaction to it, will, in some measure, define all my other emotions for the day, along with the thoughts and decisions which these emotions will affect. Today, it happened to be William Bell’s article in the Comment section of the current issue of the Church Times. Bell’s is a factually sustained accoun

Death and dying. We need to talk about it. #death #Dying #faith #hope #mortality #life #Resurrection #Autumn

Faith and belief – are they the same thing? #materialworld #planet #belief #mustardseed #faith #Yurigeller #hope #environment #incarnation

Religion and politics – Do they belong together? #politics #politicians #parliament #world #prayer #hope #Christ #reality

‘When we click through the news on our screens we experience it in the immediacy of the present moment. We also experience it in our loneliness. The loneliness of such moments feeds the fear we carry around in ourselves, the fear that comes with a sense of our disconnectedness from some indefinable life-source.’ Excerpt from my latest book In Such Times: Reflections On Living With Fear ‘Mouse’ is not a bad name for the gizmo which connects us to our computer screens. It is a