

Fashion, Faith & Being the Antichrist
It was in the mid-1990s that I discovered I was the Antichrist. The insight into my true identity came in a letter from a Mrs McPherson,...
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Weaponised Kindness & the Language of the Cult
For the first decade of the 2000s I was a vicar in suburban southwest London. Part of my inheritance from the previous regime was a...
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Paris, Rivers & the Passing of Time
Back in 1978 the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti made a trip to the Pacific Northwest. Today it’s a quiet, sunny morning in August. I’m in a...
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Dragging the Seine
I watched the Opening Ceremony of the Paris Olympics at my neighbour’s house. Part way through the ceremony I laughed and exclaimed: ‘Ha!...
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Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Stonewall
A friend of mine recently joined a new inclusive Christian network, and wanted to know if I planned to sign up. He used the phrase...
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On Trying to Join a Political Party
My interest in politics started at the age of 11. The secondary school I attended in small-town Warwickshire marked the 1974 General...
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