Steve Richards
Aug 7, 2020
Faith matters - mixed messages
We’ve just visited the North Cotswolds; the furthest from home that we have travelled since January. Looking for somewhere to sit in...
Steve Richards
Jun 5, 2020
Where authority rests
While scientists seek to understand the COVID-19 virus; how to contain its spread; how it can be weakened through vaccination and...
Steve Richards
Feb 8, 2019
Faith Matters
Faith Matters is a snappy title for this column. How are we to understand it? It might mean ‘matters appertaining to faith’ or it could...
Steve Richards
Dec 1, 2017
A Matter of Validation
Leonardo da Vinci’s painting entitled ‘Jesus Saviour of the World’ has sold at auction in New York for £341 million. Sixty years ago the...
Steve Richards
Jun 2, 2017
Word and Spirit
This Sunday is what some mark as Whit Sunday. Whitsuntide is when we are reminded of the birth of the Christian Church, looking back to...
Steve Richards
Apr 13, 2017
Seeing is believing, or is it?
Thomas was a brave, cautious and questioning soul. He was amongst Jesus’ close followers. When Jesus announced that he was going to a...
Steve Richards
Nov 1, 2016
Special Russian truth?
I have just watched Newsnight (BBC2, 25th October), the main feature being Russia’s own view of her current relationship with the rest of...
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May 6, 2016
A voice of authority needed
Europe: should we believe and trust what the ‘stay in’ campaigners tell us, or the advocates of ‘leave’? The former are using fear as one...
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Jun 5, 2015
True unity
Much of the news brought to us through the media is about disunity, whether that be between individual people or people groups....