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One of the loveliest of the Psalms is 131, in which Israel is pictured as a weaned child resting in the arms of God, its mother.

Losing the ability to talk about religion is like losing a language.

I wonder if you like me enjoy listening to Desert Island Discs.

Lent as I knew it growing up offered a whole theology of self denial, giving up, suffering, with the promise that this harshness would . . . what?

Earlier this week, the government announced the repeal of the 200-year-old Vagrancy Act that made rough sleeping and begging a criminal offence.

After two years of COVID I expect a lot of us can identify with Jesus’ disciples, caught in a vulnerable fishing boat, out on the lake, in the middle of a storm.

This year I’ve made what Michelle Obama calls a ‘swerve’, veering from a career as a barrister to studying for a diploma in the conservation of ceramics.

In the small hours of 6 February 1952, King George VI died.

One of my Christmas presents this year was Leonard Cohen, The Mystical Roots of Genius, by Harry Freedman.