Occupation: Poet Birth: June 14, 1950
It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raise….
Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international proc….
In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied..
One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest..
We are called to show utter commitment to the God who is revealed in Jesus and to all those to whom His invitation is addressed..
I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith..
Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries,….
If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imaginati….
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….
My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome..
Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it….
A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time wh….
Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign..
I value unity because I believe we learn truth from each other in this process..
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….
Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear….
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….
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good..
Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say….
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….
So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order..