An Interview with Tony Benn and the influence of faith

Tony isn’t my favourite politician but my daughter did an interview with him for Varsity Magazine which you can read here.

Assisted suicide and the “panel of experts”

The story is all over the news this morning about a new report by a “panel of experts” (according to the Independent) who are recommending that people be able to end their lives in the last year of their life. The Guardian calls it a major report.

Remember our fellow Christians this Christmas….

It is sometimes easy to forget that there are millions of Christians in the Middle East and their lot is not generally a happy one. There was an important but little reported debate in Parliament last Friday.

Wendy blog – Images of RUSH

This gallery contains 63 photos.

It was difficult to get photos onto the blog whilst I was out there and even harder to choose a few out of the 420 I took! But here is a selection of them.

Their bravery is an inspiration

Three stories have inspired me in the past week. Three people, or groups, who have stood up to power and taken them on at great personal risk either physically to their life or to their reputation.

Video of Andrew and Lucy’s Assembly

Andrew and Lucy (our hosts when we were in Kenya) are over for the month in the UK and have been staying with us for the past few days. They have been going into a number of schools this week to take assemblies there. This has been especially good because of the focus in Comic [...]

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Famous, Rich and in the Slums – Part 2

Just watched the second part of the series Famous, Rich and in the Slums. It was a heart-rending episode but I also felt really uncomfortable with parts of it. First of all I must say I thought the person who came out best of it was Angela Ripon. She lived the experience with the family. [...]

Famous, Rich and in the Slums

If you haven’t already seen it. Then do see the BBC programme made for Comic relief Famous, Rich and in the Slums. It shows four people going to live in Kibera slums in Nairobi. This is Africa’s biggest slum. See it here (UK only I’m afraid): http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/z6dnn/ Next episode is this Thursday at 9pm. O [...]

Israel and race

With all that’s been going on in North Africa in the past few weeks – and I hope and pray that we really will see a new dawn where people in that area of the world will be able to be free from dictators – there have been a few things going on with the [...]

Ethical Shopping

I recently lost a texting battle with my churchwarden Jean. I suggested that I could type faster on my blackberry keypad compared to her touchscreen iPhone. I lost. I also made more spelling mistakes. sigh. Now I find that I am likely to fall further behind. The Guardian has announced a new application for the [...]