Thought for the Day
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Thought for the Day
Reflections from a faith perspective on issues and people in the news.
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Jayne Manfredi
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If you live to be one hundred, will you still be the same person inside who you’ve always been? Will the same things still make yo...
Jasvir Singh
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75 years ago this weekend saw the Festival of Britain open to much fanfare. In 1951, cities were being rebuilt from the rubble of...
The Rev Dr Michael Banner
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Desmond Morris the zoologist, tv presenter and best-selling author who died at the weekend at the age of 98, owed his fame to his...
Michael Hurley
Good morning. There have been some notable anniversaries in the news recently.
Fighter plane extraordinaire, the Spitfire – star of the Battle o...
Rev Lucy Winkett
I found myself not long ago in a courtroom as a witness for a person claiming asylum in the UK on the grounds that they had converted to Christianity,...
The Right Reverend Dr David Walker
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Resilience has been the watchword of the last few days, politicians across the parties choosing to follow up the Prime Minister’s...
Mark Vernon
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The strike by resident doctors highlights the severe tensions faced by the National Health Service. The tragedy of the dispute, an...
The Rev Canon Dr Jennifer Smith
Along with joy, there’s a lot of fear in the days after Easter – no less for Jesus’ disciples than in our news today. It has made me think about door...
Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg
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Tonight is Seder night, the start of Passover, the Jewish Festival of Freedom, when we recall the Exodus from Egypt, our people’s...
Bishop Richard Harries - 27/03/2026
Good morning. I recently came across a new term - ‘chronically terminal’. Janis Chen, has stage four lung cancer and writing in the Guardian, she desc...
Rabbi Charley Baginsky
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When societies argue about definitions, it can sound technical, the sort of debate lawyers or policymakers care about. But definit...
Akhandadhi Das
Good morning. The appearance of a special planetary parade at the weekend was eclipsed by the coverage of the intense military operations in the Middl...
Catherine Pepinster
According to Professor Hannah Fry, people’s lives are enriched by artificial intelligence. It makes problem-solving easier, helps medical diagnosis, a...
Rev Canon Dr Jennifer Smith
Good Morning.
I’m enjoying the warmer weather this week, and in London atleast, a bit of sun. However as we begin to dry out, there is one weat...
Rev Lucy Winkett
100 years ago this year, on a grey January day in 1926, the very first public demonstration of a new piece of technology was given in Soho, London by...