September 25, 2019
‘Right now, we are ignoring natural climate solutions,’ Greta Thunberg declares. ‘We spend 1,000 times more on global fossil fuel subsidies than on nature-based solutions.’ A year […]
September 5, 2019
‘Parliament surrenders to the EU’, declares the front page headline of Wednesday’s Daily Express, adding underneath ‘On another shameful day in our so-called democracy rebel MPs vote […]
August 5, 2019
The image pictured here is the logo of Gun Central, one of the big USA corporations selling guns. After the two recent mass shootings, gun sales went […]
August 2, 2019
When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbours, in case they may […]
August 2, 2019
Competitiveness is supposed to oil the wheels of a successful economy, we keep hearing. Yet Christianity, like most faith traditions, stresses the importance of cooperation. Competitiveness […]
July 31, 2019
It feels like I’ve been campaigning for social and ecological justice nearly all my adult life. I have tried to criticise what I consider to be […]
July 19, 2019
This post is a sermon about the Gospel reading for 7th July: Luke 10:1-11, 16-20. It follows on from the sermon I published on 29 June 2019. […]
July 17, 2019
Mark Field MP has attracted attention to himself again, describing some homeless people as ‘undesirables’. This post argues that from a Christian perspective nobody is an […]
July 2, 2019
The Modern Church Conference in July this year is exploring ‘Theology in the Public Square’. When the theme of the conference was agreed, I was to […]