It was the late 70s and we thought him almost a god, my school friends Helen and Anne and I. An actor-director undergraduate, impossibly tall, dark and drop dead gorgeous, he co-hosted a party every summer for which all the guests had to dress in whi...
The Bible's boring, everyone knows that. Phares begat Esrom and Esrom begat Aram and Aram begat Aminadab. When I was teaching public bible reading in our church, I made the lesson readers practice with a telephone directory, to learn how to make it i...
A photo of the Rolling Stones was prominent in the papers yesterday, as they came together to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their first live performance in 1962. Their faces revealed that they had, to put it politely, aged somewhat. You are old F...
Yesterday the Health Secretary announced his social care reform plan. The reforms have been adopted from an earlier commission which grappled with the soaring cost of residential care. While the State is considering the cost of care for a growing ove...
A burglary is often described as being a violation. 入室行窃经常被形容为一种暴行， And it's a good word for it because it's not just about what is physically taken, it's about what is emotionally done to the person being robbed. 这个词...
These well-informed young people had a very modest interest in the print media. 这些见多识广的年轻人对纸质媒体兴致不高。 Unlike me, they didn't feel their day was incomplete without reading a newspaper. 我要是一天不看报纸就...
It's hard enough to describe the synergy between the idea of a soul and the material world. Talk of eternity is even more difficult. How does a person gain the whole world and lose his soul? And how does a soul die?Is the soul the phantom me, which f...
Perhaps it's only when we fully accept that we will die that we can fully accept how alive we are right now. 可能只有当我们全然接受人生必死的现实，才能意识到当下的人生是多么鲜活。 Death brings perspective, then. It...
Last Friday a distinguished Anglican clergyman, the Rev Paul Oestreicher, told us that in his opinion Jesus Christ was probably gay because of his affection for his beloved apostle St John. Next day, however, the former Tory MP and Times columnist Ma...
I'm spiritual but I'm not religious is now a commonplace among people in Britain, the majority of whose population live their lives without reference to organised religion. In my role as an Anglican priest, I meet significant numbers of people who ar...
