In the context of interfaith encounter, we need to bring to the surface how our actual beliefs shape what we do - not simply to agree that kindness is better than cruelty.

It takes the whole church to know the whole truth.

It's a moral question.

Nobody...likes talking about enforceable international protocols and yet unless there is a real change in attitude, we have to contemplate those very unwelcome possibilities if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions, of people to die.

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

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

A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.