Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defence of the Earth

I can't control what happens to me, but I can control how I respond to it.

Easter says to us that despite everything to the contrary, his will for us will prevail, love will prevail over hate, justice over injustice and oppression, peace over exploitation and bitterness.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I'm quite shy.

If you do not for give you actually are tying yourself to the perpetrator, that you are going to live your life as a victim. And you won't experience a liberation that comes from forgiving.

Our Christian faith is actually very subversive of the conventional notion of success - the notion that what invests a person with worth is something extrinsic.