My first ‘encounter’ with sharks was when I was quite young – I don’t exactly remember when (but I’m guessing I was around 6 years old). I say ‘encounter’ because I didn’t see the shark and I wasn’t anywhere near water at the time….
So the United Kingdom will go to the polls on 23rd June about whether to remain in or leave the European Union and already the sides are forming, the arguments are being heard, and the call to decision making (already billed as the biggest…
Most of the time we don’t think much about drinking water. It is just there. It comes out of the taps when we want. I’ve grown up with water rationing in the summer but that was only making the gardens thirsty or not washing…
You couldn’t write this stuff! Last Thursday The Rev’d Dr Boris Gunjević was installed as Tutor at Westfield House. This is a permanent position – a called position in the ELCE. Thursdays are the day when daily chapel is at 5:00pm and not in…
I haven’t been bombarded with electoral fervour (yet) so I was rather surprised that various religious groups are releasing – I’m not sure what to call them – statements, manifestos, letters, calls – to their members about the forthcoming British election. The Bishops of…
I remember visiting the Mezquita in Cordoba, Spain, having heard what a magnificent building it was. (And it is … well, worth a visit.) I had heard about the altar and was keen to see it only to discover that it was hidden behind…
There are over 7,000 languages in the world (according to SIL International) and over 1,000,000 words in the English language (according to the Global Language Monitor). Translating English into another lan-guage or another language into English is still quite an art even with…
Part of the problem I think for many people is that they don’t want to think of themselves as sinners. I specifically before have no criminal record; faithful in marriage; kind; honest; etc t be any of those things s status before God and standing under the cross…
The headlines got me again. Online Australian newspaper – first screen front page so to speak – a link to be clicked ‘Actor Chris O’Dowd says religions are as ‘offensive’ as racism’. I had two immediate reactions as I clicked on the link to…
On Wednesday the Roman Catholic cardinals elected a new Bishop of Rome. Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, an Argentinean by birth, becomes the 266th one but the first one to take the papal name of Francis. The world has watched with interest and for the…
