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The ultimate ‘now’
I was around in Southwark for the 40th anniversary memories of the publication of John Robinson's Honest to God. This year is the 50th anniversary. In this week's Church Times the excellent Mark Vernon...
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Heroism
I can't believe I have just been in Germany and failed to buy a book I want to read. OK, I didn't know it existed until I got back and saw it reviewed in Wednesday's Der Tagesspiegel. Keine...
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Reading the times
Just a question, but if every country in Europe did what the Swiss have done today – voting in a referendum to limit immigration into their land – what would be the economic and social cost (a) to the...
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Obedient freedom
I had hoped to finish Ferdinand Schlingensiepen's biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer before coming to Basel to begin my study leave proper. I failed. But, I finished it last night. I have read a lot...
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Learning the language of living
Having read Ferdinand Schlingensiepen's biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, I then read Tom Wright's Virtue Reborn yesterday and Miroslav Volf's A Public Faith today. Given that I might now move on to...
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Not deep stuff
Aha! I see a thread developing here. I am on sabbatical (study leave) and in Basel for a couple of weeks. Staying with good friends, I can't spend all day every day reading my books – so, I have...
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Basel, Barth and integrity
Today, apart from taking time to start on Rowan Williams's excellent and demanding Faith in the Public Square, I met an academic friend at the University of Basel and then we went to visit Karl...
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“Turbulent times”
The excellent Bishop of Hannover, Ralf Meister, delivered a brief ‘greeting’ on behalf of the Evangelischer Kirche in Deutschland (EKD) and ecumenical guests at the recent meeting of the General Synod...
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This is the script of this morning’s Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. I live not far from Haworth, home of the Bronte sisters. The youngest, Anne, was born two hundred years ago...
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This the script of a radio Thought for the Day which I didn’t broadcast yesterday: “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the...
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