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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.

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.

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.