What price Engineering in a nation of shopkeepers? 3 Aug 2013 | 07:39 pm

In 1644 John Milton, made out a case in his Areopagitica for freedom of speech. In passing, he observed great energy and potential in the English people: Lords and Commons of England, consider what n...

On Waking up and Smelling Coffee 6 Jul 2013 | 03:17 pm

It’s hard to express the joy and relief, to those of us who often feel we live in the wilderness on such issues, of having an Archbishop who has woken up and shows real signs of being able to smell co...

Genuine Unity — How to focus it 5 Jul 2013 | 12:02 pm

A bishop is called to be a focus of unity. But how? Unity matters. Here’s the theory, according to St Paul. The whole created order is emerging into Unity through Christ whose death has reconciled ev...

Perils of the Aristocracy: A Political Scientist Writes... 3 Jun 2013 | 11:09 am

Where does the Lords debate on equal marriage leave Lord bishops? The Telegraph reckons that “top officials” have told them to stay away on Tuesday, to avoid a constitutional showdown on the subject: ...

Letter to a Saloon Bar Moralist 26 May 2013 | 01:35 am

Thank you for your letter. The more people apply their first principles to this question, the closer we will come to a way forward so thank you for trying. I am sure many people, especially those of a...

Redefining Marriage (1925) 24 May 2013 | 01:23 pm

Pentecost: Fire lights on Babel Tower 19 May 2013 | 02:51 pm

Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt, parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, Jews and prose...

Kismet 13 Apr 2013 | 02:02 pm

2014: Oh dear, Oh dear. We failed to heed the warning the Faith and Order Commission of the Church of England gave us, and now look what’s happening

Gay Marriage: Must Try Harder 10 Apr 2013 | 11:14 am

The Lion has Roared. The faith and order commission of the General Synod, no less, has uttered its mind on marriage equality. Marriage is the faithful committed permanent and legally sanctioned relat...

Persecution, Paranoia and Pluralism for Pot-Plants 30 Mar 2013 | 05:08 pm

Holy Saturday brings what the Daily Mail calls an Astonishing attack on the Prime Minister by Lord Carey. I was not astonished. The timing is plainly the Daily Mail’s, to embarrass the government as m...