It takes the whole church to know the whole truth.

Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.

Religion has always been a matter of community building; a matter of building precisely those relations of compassion, fellow feeling and - I dare to use the word - inclusion, which would otherwise be absent from our societies.

How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?

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

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.

We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die.