Dear friends,There are many reasons why I am an Anglican rather than a Roman Catholic.  They include the way authority in the Anglican Church is dispersed rather than focused on one powerful figure, and the way the Anglican Church makes…

Dear friends,Do you know what your next-door-neighbours think and believe about God, the Christian faith and the Church? Do your next-door-neighbours know what you think and believe about God, the Christian faith and the Church?  The chances are, unless you…

Dear friends,Do you know what your next-door-neighbours think and believe about God, the Christian faith and the Church? Do your next-door-neighbours know what you think and believe about God, the Christian faith and the Church?  The chances are, unless you…

Dear friends,How do religions begin in the first place?  Not by clever theologians producing lists of doctrines for the faithful to believe, nor by moralists producing codes of ethical behaviour.   Religions begin with experiences which are then reflected on, interpreted…

Dear friends,How do religions begin in the first place?  Not by clever theologians producing lists of doctrines for the faithful to believe, nor by moralists producing codes of ethical behaviour.   Religions begin with experiences which are then reflected on, interpreted…

Dear friends,Nobody much today reads Etienne de La Boetie’s work ‘On Voluntary Servitude’.  Yet there was a time when this treatise – little more than a student essay dashed off by a sixteen-year-old in the 1550s amidst the French Wars…

Dear friends,Nobody much today reads Etienne de La Boetie’s work ‘On Voluntary Servitude’.  Yet there was a time when this treatise – little more than a student essay dashed off by a sixteen-year-old in the 1550s amidst the French Wars…