February 25, 2020 And so to rest i’m taking a blogging rest for lent sometimes there’s just nothing to do, nothing to say, nothing to achieve sometimes …
February 24, 2020 Jean Vanier, a fall from grace Vanier was a giant of a man, physically and spiritually; or at least he appeared to be. Perhaps you have …
February 24, 2020 Happy endings? Do happy endings exist? There was once a young woman called Jeanette. She was taking her driving test, after failing …
February 18, 2020 On crime fiction and saviours Crime fiction…it inhabits the darkness. It starts with fracture, ‘the zero hour’, as Agatha Christie called it; the chase, the …
February 17, 2020 Normal crazy people ‘Normal crazy people,’ we are sometimes called; it is a good description. And ‘normal’ is not to be mistaken for …
February 14, 2020 Phillip Pullman, in conversation A while ago, I spoke with Phillip Pullman, the English novelist responsible for the trilogy ‘His Dark Materials’ and ‘The …
February 10, 2020 The pain of choice ‘Choice is a good thing.’ Discuss. On the face of it, we’ll not waste too much time with the debate. …
February 10, 2020 Enneagram: The Nine faces of God The Enneagram adventure is sometimes called ‘The Nine Faces of God’; and we are invited to find the particular face …
February 3, 2020 How to save the world from terrorists and me We consider here the relationship between conditioning and learning; for the two are related but not the same. It’s presently …