Why do I defend Islam? I am on Twitter and often get called a heretic and such like for defending Islam against the ridiculous and bigoted onslaught Muslims face on the site. To think, the lovely Elon has used all that money and spent it on normalising irrational hatreds and debasing truth. That hatred is Read more

This will be an obvious statement to some, and utterly outrageous to others. But here goes – I believe all religions are equal. In a time of resurgent antisemitism and now Islamophobia too, this needs to be considered again and again. What is the relationship of Christianity to other faiths? What is the paradox of Read more

Where is God when it hurts? Where is God in Gaza? In Iran? The Sudan? Where is God when children suffer and die? Where was God when millions were persecuted and murdered during the Holocaust? Where is God now when women and men suffer abuse in what should be the safest of places – their Read more

Think for a moment about the tragedy that is Gaza; Sudan; Ukraine, and also so many other places not making the headlines. Think now about Iran and the Middle East. How many have died; how many will live to benefit from a fragile peace if and when that peace comes? How many deaths do you Read more

Who or what sustains you when all else seems to fail? What holds you up when you feel so very heart-and-body tired that your very skeleton seems unable to carry you further? What brings the promise of light for you in the midst of great grief? What sits at the very heart of who you Read more