Humpty Dumpty

‘The Church of England has totally capitulated to market values and managerialism,’ said Alison Millbank, canon theologian at Southwell...

Humpty was reaching for the sugar. I frowned. Humpty looked askance. I mounted my hobby-horse. I put on my pontificating expression....

Now that we’re free to sing in church again, we are hearing a lot of the word ‘sustainable’. It is a word that has haunted us since the...

Sometimes words are inadequate but we have nothing better. Nobody knows this better than a good-hearted person who is not at home with...

A novel about cloistered life in Ferrara, northern Italy in the 16th century came my way. ‘Sacred Hearts’ by Sarah Dunant carries the...

‘Unlike their scribes, he taught with a note of authority.’ There is a world of significance in those few words. They make sense in the...

When we look somebody in the eye, we may see confidence or unease. We may fail to notice the colour of the iris. Doubtless many of us are...

Doubt is the no-man’s-land where agnostics, atheists and believers find themselves socialising. Doubt occupies an extensive area and...

This word occurs once in the New Testament as far as as the AV is concerned. The Greek word is not translated. In the Greek it occurs...

‘Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock, but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.’ We can but acknowledge...

Military discipline is all very well but we’re most of us aware of its limitations. It gets things done but it is not creative. The...