Saturday, 18 October 2014

Hallowe'en is Coming: some thoughts

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It’s that time of year again. The shops are full of lurid spectres, ghosts, creepy-crawlies, masks and skeletons. ‘Halloween is almost here!...
Saturday, 11 October 2014

A Conversation about Faith and Science

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I have just come back from a stimulating hour at the Durham Book Festival. I was on a platform in front of an attentive crowd to interview a...
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Saturday, 13 September 2014

Scotland: a personal view from within the Church of England

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Five days to go until the Vote. We have set up a candle stand in Durham Cathedral at the altar of Queen Margaret of Scotland and are invitin...
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Tuesday, 19 August 2014

Poetry for Lunch

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Apologies to R. S. Thomas for the title - inspired by his poem 'Poetry for Supper'.  Today I invited a small audience in the Cathedr...
Saturday, 16 August 2014

J'Accuse!... Cliff Richard: Ordeal by Media

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The way Cliff Richard has been treated is shocking. At least, it has shocked me.  Not only was his house searched while he was known to be o...
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Friday, 15 August 2014

J'Accuse!...Dreyfus and the Principalities and Powers

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In 1895 in Paris, Alfred Dreyfus, an army officer, was convicted of handing over French military secrets to the Germans. He was condemned to...
Wednesday, 30 July 2014

The Great War Centenary Should Bring us to our Knees

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'The protagonists of [the First World War] were sleepwalkers, watchful but unseeing, haunted by dreams, yet blind to the horror they wer...