Yes, I was a parish priest for five years. I was a curate in a large working class parish in Bristol and the Vicar of a village in Kent.

Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.

I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.

Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.

I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.