God and Disaster

 

I am told that everyone remembers where they were when President Kennedy died. I do not. But I know where I was when I heard of the Aberfan disaster. As its fiftieth anniversary arrives this week I recall its impact, the question I live with still and a man who has come the closest to answering that question for me.

Faith in Syria

 

With the lack of good news coming from Syria I was glad to be reminded of these words

A parable of disappointed faith

 

 

Communist China in the late 1970s. A girl is born.  She grows up in an inland city and goes to its university where she studied English literature. Post-graduate studies took her first to Germany and eventually she arrived in Bath with a surprising question.