Last week I had the pleasure and privilege of being one of the plenary speakers at the annual conference of the Society for the Study of Theology at Nottingham. My acceptance of their invitation marks me out as a “faitheist”…
ReadEven the hardest-nosed sceptic would find it difficult to deny that meditation brings a number of significant benefits. Why then don’t I meditate?
ReadHow a mediocre game of tennis reveals the key to the sense of achievement.
ReadHow can people really believe this stuff? Rising from the grave isn’t even the most preposterous part of the Easter story. Far more bizarre is the claim that God had to send his son to die for our sins. And if God really wanted all humanity to heed his message, why did the resurrected Christ only reveal himself to a few select people before ascending to heaven?
ReadWhen I turned 30, too many years ago to mention, I raised a glass and toasted my entry to middle age. Everyone else was shocked by this, thinking I was being premature. Perhaps the real reason for their recoiling was that if 30 really was middle aged, that made the rest of them either middle-aged themselves, too close to it for comfort or—god forbid—old…
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