Author: Derek Chorley

My Story, My Song

Here we print extracts from some of the fourteen contributors who were asked by editor Teresa Wallace to write about themselves and what has led them to their present understanding of religion in a world...

Do I Still Believe in Jesus? Which Jesus?

Is science now approaching this frontier of awareness? It seems so. For already we are seeing reductionism out-manoeuvred and a physicist (Freeman Dyson, in Nature’s Imagination, OUP 1995, pp8 and 11) stating that science is...

My Magic Roundabout

Round and round in circles getting absolutely nowhere, just growing older. There is nowhere to go of course. Things that go round in circles have no destination, like horses on a fairground roundabout. Once upon...

Educating the Spirit

EDUCATING THE SPIRIT Derek Chorley In 1988 the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Basil Hume, wrote, in Towards a Civilisation of Love (Hodder & Stoughton): “ “Tt has seemed to many of us in the churches...

If I Were Pope

God, Please Make it Snow!

In due season I collected the fruits of the trees and bushes, the conkers, the sloes (bitter to eat unless they were fully ripe), the blackberries – hands and mouth purple-stained. From the fields around...