Rwandan Genocide

Tuesday 9 April 2019

Twenty-five years ago this week a plane carrying the Rwandan president was shot down on its descent into Kigali. In the hundred days that followed, soldiers and militias slaughtered an estimated 800,000 people

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I am About to Do a New Thing

Sunday 7 April 2019

Duration: 11:56
Recorded on: 07.09.2019
File Size: 10.93 MB

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The Fifth Sunday of Lent

Sunday 7 April 2019

I once was invited to address an annual meeting of a regional religious society. That meant before I got up to speak there was half an hour of the legal business of the organisation to sit through. The chair received the secretary’s report; and once it had been digested, the chair said, ‘I need to tell you that our secretary has decided that it is time to stand down, and that, after 8 years of loyal service, we shall be needing to look for a successor. Are there any nominations?’ There were none.

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Compromise

Tuesday 2 April 2019

The Slovaks have just elected a president with no political experience. The Ukrainians look like they’re about to. America did so recently; so did the French.
It’s quite normal for interviewers to expect that we have experience as well as skills and good character to be eligible for a job. But experience isn’t always a perfect preparation

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Strengthened in your Inner Being

Wednesday 27 March 2019

Anne would be the last person to want me to waste time today talking about her. She wasn’t an argumentative person, but she had a way of speaking that gave you the impression that she’d pronounced the last word on the subject.

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Mexican Letter

Wednesday 27 March 2019

On Monday the President of Mexico said, ‘I have sent a letter to the king of Spain and another to the Pope … urging them to apologise to the indigenous peoples for the violations of what we now call their human rights.’ He said there couldn’t be reconciliation until there was forgiveness.

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Citizens of Heaven

Sunday 17 March 2019

Duration: 12:54
Recorded on: 17.03.2019
File Size: 11.83 MB

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The Second Sunday of Lent

Sunday 17 March 2019

‘Are you a Londoner?’ a journalist asked me last week. I found it a hard question to answer. I grew up in the West Country, although none of my family live there now. I was born in Canada, although my parents weren’t there very long.

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Bigger fish to fry

Sunday 10 February 2019

Duration: 12:15
Recorded on: 10.02.2019
File Size: 11.23 MB

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