Hi friends,  (Updated May 2014)              [1] CANCER SCARE: My wife – of 54 wonderful years – Jan has suffered a couple of serious health issues in the last 12 months (mainly Pulmonary Embolism, and an aggressive form of Uterine Cancer + a few other medical issues).   See here for updates.  (Rev.) […]

Update (June 18, 2015)  Summary of the latest Hospital Saga Briefly: Jan’s left arm and shoulder have been very painful – for over a month. Precursor to angina or other heart troubles or what? Saw a GP last Thursday, 4th – a stand-in for ours who wasn’t on duty that day – and when he […]

QUESTIONS & RESPONSES: the toughest questions I’ve ever been asked, and some responses Update (10 August 2014): Mosaic Press, with whom I had a contract to submit the total manuscript by October 2014, has gone into liquidation. Sad, that: however the pressure to write (which had often got me up in the ‘small hours’) is […]

[Corrected, slightly amended, 24/4/2017) “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.” (H L Mencken) One can resist the invasion of armies; one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. (Victor Hugo) Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. (Arthur Koestler). (Sad, Arthur?). John Maynard Keynes: “When […]

          DOM HELDER CAMARA My top three (male) heroes are Jesus of Nazareth, Dom Helder Camara, and Francis of Assisi, in that order… (He’s one of three 20th/21st century Catholic Archbishops I admire, each of whom chose slightly different routes in opposing violent regimes. The other two: Pope Francis, and Archbishop […]