December 13, 2021
Rickety (adjective) = liable to collapse or come clattering down, first used in the 1680s, derived from rickets (noun) via the notion of weak, unhealthy, feeble […]
December 10, 2021
On Tuesday the UK Government published its new White Paper on Prisons Strategy, along with a brief summary. It is much as one would expect: extra […]
December 8, 2021
This is a copy of a paper given by The Revd Canon Dr Peter Shepherd to the Modern Church Forum on the 6.12.21. Forum is the […]
December 7, 2021
The Very Revd Professor Martyn Percy is an Honorary Vice-President of Modern Church, and was the Principal of Cuddesdon from 2004-14, before becoming Dean of Christ […]
December 6, 2021
Anthony D. Baker, Leaving Emmaus: A New Departure in Christian Theology. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2021. Pp. xviii, 196. Pb. $34.99. ISBN 978-1-4813-1604-0. Randall H. […]
December 3, 2021
I have just come from a country where the commercial machinery of Christmas seems to be already operating at full capacity, in a remote kind of […]
November 27, 2021
We get more and more billionaires. We also get more and more homeless people, and longer queues at foodbanks. Why? How human are we, if we […]
November 13, 2021
‘Those resisting responsibility will hear blame’ writes one of the respondents to my last post. They may, but whether they hear it or not, blame does […]
November 13, 2021
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 rats. There is […]