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  This is the text of a sermon preached in 2019. The views of (at least) some members of the House of Bishops appear to have changed since then. But…

  At three inches high, a mini Martin Luther, complete with plastic quill, gown and tiny bible, has become Playmobil’s most popular figure ever. The first production run of 34,000…

  Every now and then, I’m asked if I can recommend a good book that answers the basic question: why be a Christian today? Inevitably, it depends who’s asking. We…

  A few years ago, I came across a little book with the fantastic title Do Nothing to Change Your Life.* Finally, I thought. Someone who speaks my language. We…

  Easter Sunday, and it’s a beautiful morning with a full church. The resurrection is celebrated, and we spill outside for the important business of the day: the Easter Egg…

      When I was 18, I left Scotland and headed south to Manchester. Home of New Order and the Haçienda, the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, Alex Ferguson (another…

  When asked by Channel 4 News whether he thought gay sex was sinful, Tim Farron, an Evangelical Christian and leader of the Liberal Democrats, equivocated. ‘We are all sinners’…

  He was a single man in late middle age. Let’s call him George. An occasional worshipper at church, I’d arranged to visit him at home, in his bedsit above…

  When Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was abducted from Argentina by the Israelis and brought to Jerusalem, the philosopher Hannah Arendt was commissioned by The New Yorker to cover…

  From punk rock and the mod revival of The Jam in the 70s, through the soul and jazz fusion of The Style Council in the 80s, and a string…