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What is money? We all use money every day, yet it is the most mysterious of commodities. It can be bought and sold like everything else (think of the currency markets) but it is also the medium through which we…

As well as attaining 100% overall student satisfaction in the National Student Survey, the department for Religion, Philosophy and Ethics at University of Gloucestershire has been rated 7th in the national Guardian league table for the subject area in the…

Nowadays we tend to think of philosophy as an academic discipline you study in university and that to be a philosopher is to be a professor of philosophy. But that is not always how it has been, according to the…

This is a great pictorial journey through the lockdown experience from a religious perspective (click on to the above link). Three months without congregational worship may have been hard for many but there have been some that I have…

(The above image is that of Renwick Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island) How long should we remember the dead? Why are some events represented in the way that they are and others forgotten or conveniently disregarded? After reading the…

Its an interesting thought…but however you look at it, Yoga, in whatever form it takes, from whichever tradition it draws its lineage from (or not) is reputed to have both curative and preventative qualities. It may not provide covid proof…

When I first read Bruce Chatwin’s widely acclaimed The Songlines (1987), probably in the mid-nineties, I was not so much interested in its literary merits but more in the fact that in part it was an account of the…

Has there ever been a time when it was more important to be able to discuss, debate and argue about the place of ethics in the world today, in a balanced and informed manner? Learn to tools of the trade…