July 10, 2025July 15, 2025 Have we become ungovernable? It could be a new board game called ‘Govern that!’ set in a democratic but bankrupt country facing an ever more uncertain world. Each player is Prime Minister. But who will stay in power? The players must first decide what will be their game plan. There are three choices. 1) One Nation: General health of the nation. 2) Golden Division: Government by demonization and division 3) Power for Power’s Sake: using all means necessary to keep it. Nothing else matters. The first is a generalist approach steeped in compromise but …
June 12, 2025June 12, 2025 The Gospel according to the Garden Before we go to the garden, a verse from a poem that could scarcely be less floral or Monty Don: …
May 15, 2025May 15, 2025 Are Christianity and therapy joined at the hip? So, here’s the question: ‘What is the relationship between Christianity and therapy?’ And the answer, of course, will depend on …
May 10, 2023 God’s street number A visitor knocks on God’s door. ‘Who’s there?’ asks God. ‘It’s me,’ says the visitor. ‘Go away,’ says God. ‘There’s …
May 5, 2023 Julian of Norwich 650th anniversary May 8th 2023 is the 650th anniversary of the Revelations given to Julian of Norwich. To mark the day, this …
May 2, 2023 What does civilisation look like? Human civilisation is the opposite of human brutalisation And here’s the difference: brutalisation is black and white while civilisation is …
April 24, 2023 The best silence I’d like to say something short and snappy about silence. But first, an anecdote. A man meets an old friend …
April 20, 2023 A letter to hope Hope, we knew each other once, you can’t deny Well, it was you who started it! How you crept up …
April 17, 2023 Welcome to your existence Welcome to your existence To the truth that you are alive, to breath passing through you, like a stream through …
April 11, 2023 Why anxiety’s days are numbered Anxiety cannot be banished; it has the keys to our house. But we need not offer it cakes and a …
April 8, 2023 Easter morning, Jesus and the fire An extract from my novel, ‘Gospel - Rumours of Love’. Yeshua is Jesus, Rocky is Peter. This is Yeshua’s telling …
April 3, 2023 Growing old You called them your autumn years A changing scene, the leaves once green are different – a different colour now …
