To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations.

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

Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.

Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the next generation. Indeed to ask whether we have a real and vivid sense of that next generation.

A public is a necessary fiction.

The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.

Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience.