Praying for Donald Trump There was a tiny, but fascinating, hesitation during our Sunday service last week. Each Sunday, a differ-ent member of the congregation leads our prayers: typically, we pray for some concerns from the wider world as well as those close to us in...
There was a tiny, but fascinating, hesitation during our Sunday service last week. Each Sunday, a different member of the congregation leads our prayers: typically, we pray for some concerns from the wider world as well as those close to us in Surbiton and to...
If you can face it, I would recommend that you watch some of the BBC’s coverage of Yemen this weekend. Entitled “Starving Yemen”, the programmes demonstrate how the current civil war there is meaning that hundreds of thousands of children are moving from a state...
Something rare and refreshing took place at Prime Minister’s Questions. It was a genuine moral clash. As it happened, it took place about grammar schools. On the one side, Theresa May was arguing for their reintroduction. At present, she argued, the only way to get a...
“The ends justify the means” is a well known proverb. It’s one that Immanuel Kant took issue with: according to his ethics, you cannot differentiate between the two. Someone has termed this: “the means is the end” i.e. while a utilitarian would argue that it’s good...
Thought for the Train Starting Back September 6th 2016...
I wonder if yesterday’s utterly awful news about Jo Cox will mark a turning point in the way we view politicians. I hadn’t heard of her before yesterday, but you hear about her life, and can’t help but be impressed: the first member of her family...
A month ago, for my 40th birthday, a friend of mine bought me the 2015 Cliff Richard calendar. It was, I hasten to say, an ‘ironic’ present: it made me laugh to receive it; it made him smile to give it, and it probably only...