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March 21, 2019

Meticulous and reticent lives 2.0

Good poetry stays in the mind. It takes root, develops and insists on keeping company with the reader.
November 8, 2017

A tragic death and the need for reflection

Ask almost anyone – yourself included – are you an independent thinker or do you follow the herd?
October 31, 2017

First Christian-Confucian dialogue initiated by WCC begins in Seoul

For the first time in its history, the World Council of Churches has initiated a formal dialogue with Confucians. The dialogue commenced on 27 October in Seoul with an interreligious consultation on Christian-Confucian relations.
July 31, 2017

BBC salaries, the market and moral agency

There is an instinctive sense among most of us that income is a private matter.
January 12, 2017

On endings, beginnings and calling things by their right names

TS Eliot is the poet of endings and beginnings and of the paradoxes which dwell within that cycle.
August 26, 2014

The infection of terror and the still small voice

To be made to pause and to listen anew can be to experience the subduing of “all our words and works.” It doesn't happen all that often so to have been offered this grace twice in the space of a week demands that I pay attention to blessing.
February 25, 2013

Cardinal O'Brien, Oscar Pistorius and 'standing still in the Light'

Social media has significantly altered many aspects of the balance of power. It has given a voice to ordinary people and made it more difficult for power to hide that which it finds inconvenient or embarrassing.
March 9, 2007

Being a cautious mystic

Johan Maurer asks what we mean by spiritual experience and mysticism