Latest Thought for the Week

Thursday 25 January marks the 80th anniversary of the ordination of Florence Li Tim-Oi as a priest in the Anglican Diocese of Hong Kong and South China by Bishop R O Hall (in Chinese, Ho Ming Wah).

In The Wasteland, T. S. Eliot says ‘April is the cruellest month’ but I’m more minded to award that dubious accolade to January or February.

If you had to tell your life story, where would you begin?

A question I get asked more than any other in the context of my work, particularly at this time of year, is: “what should I do if someone asked me for money on the street”?

It was once the custom for each chapter of the Dominican friars to hold a solemn chapter meeting on Christmas Eve.

The path out of homelessness is tough to walk alone.

Our kitchen looks out to a beautiful beech tree.

The barista’s face dropped when I said the word.

A soldier’s death, that ‘ultimate sacrifice’, deserves the elegance and beauty of ‘The Last Call’, that is bugled at military funerals and all around Britain this weekend.