Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.

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

St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.

If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.