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For the Lent Course this year we will have a marvellous guide – Mark Oakley – who writes with such humanity, depth and humour about the poetic voice.

I have long been troubled by the gendering of God.

Darkness: deep navy sky, punctuated with minute specks of starlight, not enough to light the path ahead.

I’ve been having a clear out.

Thursday 25 January marks the 80th anniversary of the ordination of Florence Li Tim-Oi as a priest in the Anglican Diocese of Hong Kong and South China by Bishop R O Hall (in Chinese, Ho Ming Wah).

In The Wasteland, T. S. Eliot says ‘April is the cruellest month’ but I’m more minded to award that dubious accolade to January or February.

If you had to tell your life story, where would you begin?

A question I get asked more than any other in the context of my work, particularly at this time of year, is: “what should I do if someone asked me for money on the street”?

It was once the custom for each chapter of the Dominican friars to hold a solemn chapter meeting on Christmas Eve.