This summer I was invited to attend a Speed Awareness Course! With some irony this was the result of lockdown. As the world slowed and the roads emptied a unique opportunity arose – that of approaching the Dartford Tunnel without having to slow down and join the back of a queue. On the course we […]

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During the summer months moths and bees are regular visitors to my bedroom. The moths are drawn to the brightness of my bedside light and bees have made a nest in the flat roof above. On the one hand the moths seem restless and uncertain, endlessly approaching the light but never actually landing on it. […]

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For two thousand years Christians have prayed ‘Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven’. But hang on a minute. Doesn’t that imply that God’s will isn’t being done on earth at the moment? What does that say about belief in an all-powerful, all-loving God? If he’s as good […]

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Johnny Depp’s current libel case reminds us how unpleasant it is when someone’s character and behaviour are misrepresented. Not many of us need a jury to decide the merits of our case; but most of us can remember a time when someone said something about us and we thought, ‘that’s just not me’. Richard Dawkins […]

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Fans of the Shakespearean-inspired comedy ‘Upstart Crow’ will be familiar with the exclamation ‘hang the futtock on’. It often comes at a moment when the playwright is struggling to find inspiration for his next play and suddenly realises that current events provide the perfect plotline. It’s a moment when the penny drops. But the comedy […]

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It’s often supposed that the Bible is rather old-fashioned and irrelevant. So quite a surprise to discover that St Paul seemed more than familiar with Zoom calls. Speaking to a church in the ancient city of Corinth he says, ‘Now we see but a poor reflection; then we shall see face to face’. Over the […]

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A few years ago, a damp patch suddenly appeared in the middle of our lawn. Being me, I didn’t do anything about it and just hoped it would go away. But it didn’t. Over the years it got worse. One particularly dry summer a small frog made its home there while the rest of lawn […]

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The reopening of hairdressers in England will come as a huge relief to many. Worrying about what to do with our hair has been one of the pressing issues of lockdown. There seem to have been three options. Firstly, do nothing and just stick it out. Secondly, let a family member have a go, after […]

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It’s the oldest objection to God in the world, most recently expressed to me as follows: ‘God has watched while thousands have died during the pandemic; exactly as he did during two World Wars, the Holocaust, and the Rwandan and Bosnian genocides. He didn’t do a thing because he doesn’t exist.’ But just for a […]

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Since the beginning of lockdown, the UK government has racked up £300 billion in debt, providing extra resources for the NHS and furloughing millions of workers. I’m told that the last time this happened was in 1835. On that occasion slavery had just been abolished and the money was used to compensate slave owners for […]

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