Occupation: Poet Birth: June 14, 1950
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….
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….
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 ….
In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands ….
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….
A public is a necessary fiction..
In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation..
Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum..
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….
It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue..
Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow..
Nobody...likes talking about enforceable international protocols and yet unless there is a real change in attitude, we have to contemplate those very….
We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the balance of life in a particular context.….
Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the next generation. Indeed to ask whether we hav….
Well, today, the diocese is more than ever a microcosm..
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 ….
In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility….
Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but al….
It takes the whole church to know the whole truth..
How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?.