God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

Values are tapes we play on the Walkman of the mind: any tune we choose so long as it does not disturb others.

Parenthood involves massive sacrifice: money, attention, time and emotional energy.

Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.

If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.

In our interconnected world, we must learn to feel enlarged, not threatened, by difference - that is what I have argued.

That this occurred at the launch of the report into the Labour Party's recent troubles with antisemitism shows how deep the sickness is in parts of left of British politics today.