May 4, 2020
How we wish the world was different! But how much of our wishing comes from self-centredness? I recently posted on the limits to human knowledge. This […]
May 1, 2020
Victorian imagery has contributed significantly, in my opinion, to the sentimentalisation of Christ as the Good Shepherd. I have been looking for images of the bad […]
April 29, 2020
If God created the world, why create it so perversely as to put the coronavirus in it? Couldn’t it have been left out? Questions like this […]
April 21, 2020
In January this year I started to muse about how the Extinction Catastrophe we are facing is connected to global warming and the extinction of species […]
April 10, 2020
At times like this many people’s faith is tested. Suffering is, and always has been, the toughest challenge to believers. If God is in control, why […]
April 7, 2020
I am half expecting a Royal Visit. One of the peculiarities in being the Dean of Christ Church Oxford is having to reside in the Deanery, […]
April 4, 2020
Covid-19 has upended ‘normality’ and we are in shock. We have been reminded of the fleeting nature of our lives, the frailty of our institutions and […]
April 3, 2020
I watch every single day during my self-imposed quarantine period a herd of ‘great white pelicans’ (migrating birds) settling on a Banyan tree (ficus Benghalensis) about […]
March 31, 2020
THIS WAS the title of the Modern Church South West group day conference in Bath last month, led by Stephen Parsons, author of survivingchurch.org. The seeds for this day […]