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To be vulnerable I have really struggled this month with the Cross Rhythms article because it is not always easy in times of real difficulties to be genuinely optimistic. I have had the privilege for almost 40 years of sharing, on radio and television, what I believe is the ‘Greatest Story Ever Told’. This story […]

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 […]

In these current times with a global pandemic it is easy to succumb to fear, anxiety and worry. I have recently become a parent for the first time to my daughter Bethany and this unusual shape we all find ourselves in was not what I thought my maternity leave would look like with her. Social […]

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 […]