Lecture to Engaging Issues January 2016 I was listening to, radio4 I think it was: about a man looking for a new partner – for whatever reason I don’t know, but ‘compatibility’ was his concern. Using the Internet he found one of the many websites designed for that purpose: and he began ticking the boxes, […]
Engaging Issues lecture January 2013 Jesus and Buddha: Crossing Religious Boundaries. That’s the title of my talk. But there’s something not quite right about it and some of you may have spotted what it is, and I’ll come to it in a minute. Any title is a bit like a newspaper headline. It tends to […]
Article in Stretton Focus, October 2018 Religions tend to have their Gods pre-packaged and wrapped up in creeds and doctrines for general consumption. This pre-packaged God appeals to those who are afraid to think for themselves, and so such a religion will always have a following. But for many people today, God is greater than […]
Article in Stretton Focus, January 2017 At the beginning of a New Year, we might become more aware of time’s winged chariot hurrying near. Time is passing, because that’s what time does – too quickly for some us! There is a time to be born and a time to die and in between is the […]
Article in Stretton Focus, May 2017 The number 42 in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is the ‘Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything’. It is calculated by an enormous computer named Deep Thought over a period of 7.5 million years. Unfortunately by the time the answer […]
