Author: Arthur Goode

January: the month of diets, gyms filled to capacity, joggers and ex-smokers. All of which are a good thing, don’t get me wrong. What people are doing is using the first of January as a fresh start. Another attempt to break bad habits and begin new ones. It’s a good use of a day in […]

C. S. Lewis said: ‘Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.’ I want to say a few words about courage. And to do so I will be drawing upon the deep theological work that many will […]

Do you like maps? Are you one of those types who likes to sit down and study them? And how is your geography – your sense of where places are in relation to each other? My daughter was doing a project on the 20th Century and asked me what important things happened in the noughties. […]

Here’s a question for you: do your convictions match your commitments? We all have convictions – things we hold to be right – what matters to us, the stuff we hold most dear. Our values if you like – the way we would like the world (our world) to be. But so often we find […]

I’ve been reflecting on the power of speech recently, to be more specific the power of a speech. The Black Lives Matter movement has reconnected us to Martin Luther King’s ‘I had a dream’ speech. The Prime Minister’s initial response to the Covid pandemic echoed his hero Winston Churchill’s Second World War speeches. It seems […]

Here’s a question for you: would you say people – in general – are essentially good, or bad? There are two opposing schools of thought on this, and what we decide is reflected in the society we create. Our society (the way things are set up in Britain, and probably the western world generally) operates […]