Showing everything tagged as Thought for the week

For me, Sunday worship now takes place in the kitchen, where candles and palm cross have joined the salt and pepper and unopened post on the table.

The sculptor Helaine Blumenfeld has a major exhibition at Canary Wharf that opened shortly before lockdown.

For decades, even centuries, the battle raged in the early Church. Did Jesus rise bodily from the dead? Was the tomb empty?

I’ve started to think of this pandemic season in terms of the Noah story.

It seems like the period of the rules changing every day might be over, and the country is getting used to a very different rhythm of life.

Smiling is infectious, you catch it like the flu, When someone smiled at me today, I started smiling too.

There is no doubt that Yorkshire Tea has had a rough week. The company has faced a barrage of criticism on social media after the new Chancellor was pictured holding a giant bag of their product.

As I get older I find myself turning often to the Persian poets Rumi and Hafiz and finding comfort there.