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

Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.

To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.

It does not matter to the killers if their victims are Christian or Muslim, Hindu or Humanist; what matters is that they show that they can kill where they please.

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.

I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.