It is a great privilege to become the chair of JRI, an organisation that I have been aware of for many years and with whom I have been serving as a board member for a couple of years now. Over the twenty years of JRI’s work, there have been many …
It is not often that one gets the chance to compare two books looking at the same topic. And even less often were you one of the authors! My wife Margot and I published a Grove booklet “An Introduction to Environmental Ethics” in 2017. We were really aiming at a …
It’s mid-May, mid-lockdown, and I’m sitting in my peaceful garden listening to the blackbird singing. I am feeling accomplished, having just submitted my CRES dissertation, and about to start a new book which I have been looking forward to reading for some time. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and …
“We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God’s original purpose in everything created. For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels—everything got started in him and finds its purpose …
At the edge of the Rectory lawn a Hawthorn stands in silence. Compared to her lofty neighbours – Oak, Ash, Beech, Sycamore – she cuts a diminutive figure and as they welcome the return of the springtime sun by trying to outdo one another in their green-ness, she quietly dresses …
I was supposed to be on sabbatical till the end of this month. But the restrictions on travel as well as the pastoral and missional demands of the COVID-19 lockdown has meant it rightly needed to be delayed. No, I’m not asking for sympathy. As God reminded me a few …
