Category Archives: God

“Daddy, that was great! Except you sounded like a eunuch!” — A daughter listens to the radio — “Really. You sound like a castrated hamster.” Thank god she’s not one of those vile teenagers. Continue reading →

Yesterday, the Sunday Times carried a detailed story about a gay priest in the diocese of Monmouth who had a fortnight ago adopted a fifteen-year-old boy with severe behavioural difficulties whom he and his partner had been helping to look … Continue reading → Continue reading →

— though distressingly prosaic — was served on me yesterday. I had just published a press column warning poor Rowan Williams that he would soon be savaged by the pack when someone came round from the Sunday Programme to interview … Continue reading → Continue reading →

He’s only the husband. But you’d have thought that someone from the Church would have checked with him or the hospital records, before proclaiming a miracle. Continue reading →

I think “this has to be the silliest thing Richard Dawkins will ever write about religion”. And every year, I’m wrong. Continue reading →

The Vatican has decided that homosexuality is to be extirpated from the priesthood. Andrew Sullivan is upset. Two questions. Continue reading →

The front page of today’s Telegraph is disturbing for many reasons. There is a huge colour photograph of an apocalyptic figure blowing his horn in front of a bonfire: it shows “Andrew Brown, joint master of the Saltergate Hunt.” Well, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It happened with nuclear power: why not Feng Shui: a mighty force for peace perverted to warlike ends. If this craze spreads, it will provide us with an inexhaustible fountain of excuses. “Why did I sign that deal? His lawyer … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Lo, is it not written? And will it not come to pass as was foretold, yea, even in Babylon? Continue reading →