Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth.

Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not come to Church.

Indeed if we Christians so tell our story that Judaism is silenced, then we have not spoken rightly of Christ.

We need the wisdom of women, and the experience of married people and parents, and the depth of the contemplative if we are to be formed as preachers.

All the Abrahamic faiths are marked by violence.

We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.