In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.

Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.

The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.

I concluded that an active sexual relationship between two people of the same sex might therefore reflect the love of God in a way comparable to marriage, if and only if it had the about it the same character of absolute covenanted faithfulness.

One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.