When I was nine we went to live in Egypt. I was lucky, being the daughter of a journalist, as I had already travelled a lot. I liked languages and foreign places. I started school…
When religions engage with sustainability, they often start by revisiting scripture. Christians and Jews may refer to Psalm 24, which asserts that ‘the Earth is the Lord’s, and…
Summer morning come heat on the wine-field and the lizards crinkle understone. In olive groves cicadas chirr and the blunt lion-gate lies open to the…
I am 83 and intend to start a debate about how we oldies ought to manage. We have been dealt a double whammy by fate. For some 800,000 years of man we had several advantages…
Why are most of our major political parties so devoted to Trident, the nuclear-powered submarine that can be within devastation distance of any city in the world without anyone…
I have walked the labyrinth at Woodbrooke many times: it always teaches me something about my life and myself. I have vivid memories of my first encounter with it and the panic of…
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