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Wide space…
In the summer of 2008 I went to a day of lectures at the University of Cambridge to commemorate the ecumenical visit of a group of Germans to England in 1908 (reciprocated in 1909). The morning lecture...
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A theology of beer and garlic
One of the best places to visit in London is the utterly wonderful and ridiculously expensive Borough Market. You can find it under the railway next to Southwark Cathedral, close to London Bridge. It...
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Now, where were we? (Kirchentag 3)
In 1908 a group of German Christians saw the clouds of conflict coming over Europe and dreaded the horror of Christians killing Christians as enemies in a war. They formed an ecumenical peace...
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The haunting whisper of love
I have been out in parishes morning, afternoon and evening every day for the last couple of weeks and love it. But I was driving home slowly this evening from licensing a new priest in a Surrey parish...
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Theologies of hope (Kirchentag 2010-3)
The weather in Munich is terrible. So, all those who think I have come on a jolly will have to think again. I spent today meeting people and getting cold. But I was determined to hang around the...
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The hope of things to come
This evening we had a reception for those being ordained as Deacons and Priests in the Diocese of Southwark next Sunday, 4 June. They are a mixed bunch of people – evidence that God doesn’t call clones...
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The dying of the light
I cannot read the haunting lament of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas without hearing his voice from an old recording: Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. A...
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Norwegian Wood
Talk about mixed feelings. I was back in Liverpool for my mum’s 80th birthday great-big-family bash on Friday and listened on the car radio to the harrowing accounts of Anders Behring Breivik‘s...
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The haunting echo of hope
Etched onto my memory is the line by the German theologian Jürgen Moltmann, cited during a lecture in Cambridge several years ago: God is our happiness. God is our torment. God is the wide space of our...
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The haunting echo of hope
Etched onto my memory is the line by the German theologian Jürgen Moltmann, cited during a lecture in Cambridge several years ago: God is our happiness. God is our torment. God is the wide space of our...
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The meanings of Brexit
It is clear that the government is working assiduously to create some shape out of the decision in the June referendum to leave the European Union. It is also clear that a huge number of questions that...
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This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on the morning after England beat Denmark in the Euros semi-final at Wembley. “Stressful. Very, very...
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