November 2022

At the end of November 2018, I was standing with a colleague on the South Bank looking across at the Houses of Parliament. We were about to present a paper at sports conference in Lambeth Palace. The lights were on...

Islam did not only recognize religious diversity, but it also encouraged associating with this diversity. In this context, Islam’s theology of al-Taʿāruf (coming into contact with one another) takes a central position, as maybe understood from Q. 49:13, which highlights one...

I recently heard a Gospel passage read in church which is an old favourite.  It struck me that there some really important lessons about our relationship with God in this passage, so I would like to reflect on these in...

There is an apocryphal story told about a very old man who is lying on his deathbed. As he quietly slips away, he reflects … “I have had a lot of things to worry about in my life … most...