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

The medieval Church believed that the resurrection of Christ marked a new time for all of humanity.

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

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.

Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason.