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 …
April 14, 2022 Gethsemane An extract from my novel, ‘Gospel, Rumours of Love’. The story is told through the eyes of Yeshua. (Jesus) ‘Rocky’ …
April 12, 2022 Scottie Sheffler and our many selves The radio presenter, reporting on the Open golf tournament in Augusta, is taken aback. ‘How could it be?’ he asks. …
April 5, 2022 Courage, and the doors it opens I contemplate the flower. Yet more than delighting in its beauty today, I find myself admiring its courage. Truly, here …
March 29, 2022 The good-enough messiah I meet her near the station, stumbling a little. I steady her. ‘This little scrap of flesh,’ she says. ‘How …
March 22, 2022 What is mindfulness? What is mindfulness? Opening up the shop in the morning and turning the key, I am aware that I am …
March 21, 2022 Needed: hopeful imagination In 587 BC, the Babylonians assaulted Jerusalem and destroyed the Temple. For the Israelites, it was the end of the …
March 16, 2022 Beyond depression there is a heaviness about depression that needs lightening a fog that needs clearing a surliness that needs dissolving a …
March 8, 2022 On being Putin Dictators must have control. It’s what they desperately need. The need for control grows in their lives, like weeds left …
March 4, 2022 Gethsemane I hope you found flowers in Gethsemane; and help in the landscape of night. With accusation and threat weighing heavy, …