King of Kings
In the small hours of 6 February 1952, King George VI died.
Hallelujah
One of my Christmas presents this year was Leonard Cohen, The Mystical Roots of Genius, by Harry Freedman.
May the dark clouds roll away
At the beginning of this New Year, I’ve been writing and talking about the ways faith is expressed in and through pop music in all its many guises.
Healthy Guilt
Recent years have been characterised in this country by a phenomenon I don’t recall experiencing to the same degree before: the upsurge of a collective sense of guilt too great for anyone to dissipate.
St Stephen and St Paul ‘in Hong Kong’!
Prior to his conversion, St Paul was present at St Stephen’s martyrdom in Acts 7.
Broken Vessels
In the sixteenth century tea culture of Japan, a young attendant to Toyotomi Hideyoshi (a warlord of the time) dropped an invaluable piece of teaware, with it breaking into five pieces.
It’s been one of those weeks
It’s been one of those weeks where you kept your eye on the news, because there’s been a lot of ‘telegrams and anger’ as E.M. Forster called it.
Blessing of the Crib
One of the treats of my childhood Christmas Eves was being allowed to help set up our precious stone crib.
