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In the wake of troubling news about the founder of L’Arche, Jean Vanier, who received the Templeton Prize at St Martin’s in 2015, Revd Dr Sam Wells has issued this statement.

Not long ago a friend told me about a special moment in his life. He was a student at university, and each week he attended the same seminar.

How can we find forgiveness? How can we restore a relationship when we’ve done something terribly wrong?

In one of Woody Allen’s stand-up comedy routines from the sixties, he said, ‘Years ago, my mother gave me a bullet.

A British preacher went to visit the United States. She’d prepared a careful three-point sermon on the subject of the word ‘But.’

When you sit down to try think about what to get your friends, family and colleagues for Christmas you realise there’s one person it’s impossible to buy a present for, because they don’t really have interests or their interests are so obscure you have no idea what will please them.