Apologies to those who've already read this - it's the Update (the first of its kind) I sent out to those on the mailing list yesterday. But I have added a note at the end. Thank you for tuning in! The news is that “The Tenth Province...
I thought it was time for another Resources book review. These reviews in theory are supposed to address the following aims that I have mentioned before: To help people, including myself, to stay Christians by honestly facing and exploring, from within the faith and before God, the...
I’m taking a risk today, commenting on a TV programme I didn’t actually watch, although my husband did. On Monday night BBC 2 broadcast “The Search for a New Earth” Part 1. I quote from the description in the Guardian Guide: “With humans knackering up the...
The woman lay on the straw, eyes wide, shoulders shivering. She revived a little to drink. Kneeling beside her, he noticed that her teeth were sound. What is such a woman doing, deep in the Haymonese countryside, without servants? “You’re safe here, madam. Please rest. I am...
None of us likes the fact that many of the world’s poor live without education, clean water, etc, while some of the rich have private jets. But what would a more equal world mean? Would it mean that everyone had what I (middle-class British) take for...