Occupation: Poet Birth: June 14, 1950
The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid for your hospita….
The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's..
Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is signifi….
Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to fin….
Nobody...likes talking about enforceable international protocols and yet unless there is a real change in attitude, we have to contemplate those very….
I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run, less than what God w….
What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented ….
Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that ca….
Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do ….
Christian teaching about sex is not a set of isolated prohibitions; it is an integral part of what the Bible has to say about living in such a way th….
Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but al….
Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum..
Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it….
It does not matter to the killers if their victims are Christian or Muslim, Hindu or Humanist; what matters is that they show that they can kill wher….
To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nat….
I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith..
In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied..
Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say….
I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discer….
To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they hav….
Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or homosexua….