July 10, 2025July 10, 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 …
January 23, 2025March 10, 2025 London’s Knotty Pickle Newsletter: January 2025 Warm New Year greetings to you, and I don’t know how you relate to January. I was …
January 21, 2025January 22, 2025 Impermanence and its friends If our existence is compared to an ocean, on our ocean floor, beneath everything above, are three immovable rocks – …
January 9, 2025 Acornology This is a slightly-redacted version of a talk I gave to 400 fourteen/fifteen-year-old students. A spoken event is different from …
December 30, 2024December 30, 2024 New year, true you Jesse doesn’t know who she is. So, she decides to ask others to give her an identity. ‘Then I’ll know …
December 13, 2024December 13, 2024 Christmas: the champion of festivals Newsletter: December 2024 Greetings again wherever you read this. Here in the UK, the darkness deepens and the damp chill …
December 9, 2024December 10, 2024 Towards our secret Christmas The magi, through desert extremes, followed the star to Bethlehem; and, in a manner, so do we. Bethlehem has many …
December 2, 2024December 2, 2024 How to relax Here is a way to relax; because when we are relaxed, whether at work or play, we see things more …
November 26, 2024November 26, 2024 What is love? What is love? It’s a strangely-avoided question. We use the word often enough. But what is it we speak of …
November 14, 2024November 14, 2024 How truth toppled an archbishop Next Sunday, with a degree of irony, is Safeguarding Sunday in the Church of England. And priests across the land …
