Rev Dr Isabelle Hamley, Theological Adviser to the House of Bishops

Older people should get back to work says the chancellor, but businesses would rather have younger people. At least one old person I met was really youthful in their outlook. This just goes to show how prejudiced you are.

Christianity invented equality. Everyone is equal. Women nearly are, and of course, there’s some who aren’t because we say so.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zfycRxDrq5mT7qUrz4RO2lhMW7pe_Eyf/view?usp=sharing

Staggeringly Revd Nicholas Baines, Bishop of Leeds, West Yorkshire, the Dales and any other bits that can’t afford their own bishop any more

And in the Big News today from a Faith Perspective, education is really important.

This is probably news to Radio 4 listeners, so let me say more. Jesus said that education is really important. Or at least, that’s what he meant to say when he talked about giving a child a stone who asks for bread. The Hebrew Scriptures, the ones that say the earth is flat and was created 6,000 years ago, also say that education, especially about the 6,000 year old flat earth, is really important.

So in conclusion, education is really important. I know, I’m a bishop.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Fe2fYU2Ur9Ns1RP97RtGJnmSh2H8FKEm/view?usp=sharing

Help Finding a Vaughan Williams Recording

Many years ago one of our contributors recommended a rendition by a Russian orchestra of Fantasia on Christmas Carols by Ralph Vaughan Williams with a particularly moving cello part. A weblink was provided that has subsequently been lost among many other renditions on YouTube.

I’ve searched the old blog for this with no luck. I tried my streaming service, idagio. Again, nothing. The reader asking about this has even been in contact with the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society and even they can’t find it.

Does anyone know where it can be found, because one of our regular readers would love to hear it again?

Rev Dr Michael Banner, Dean and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge

Racism is still widespread. Racism is wrong, because we were all decended from Adam in the Garden of Eden. Laterly, science has come to accept the theory of common decent, even though for many years it got it totally wrong. Just think of all the time that could have been saved if only science had listened to the right religion all along.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uLdtAuQAe-Oe6SP9ODHSrKHhj8epvnwa/view?usp=sharing