May 19, 2020
It is far too early to speculate on whether the government ‘road maps’ for a post-Brexit-Britain, and a post-pandemic-UK will be adequate. Time only moves forward, […]
May 6, 2020
As I remarked to a close colleague the other day, grief is exhausting. His mother had just died in a Care Home. It was not unexpected, […]
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 […]