So George Osborne proved me wrong:  hallelujah! Truthful with the economics, and forecasting lean times beyond the end of this parliament.  Although the news isn’t good, I feel strangely lightened by the freshness of his candour, and a sober prediction…

When I was teaching I was struck by a claim that schools are always teaching young people about the world the teachers inhabited, preparing them for a world that won’t exist when the young people enter it as adults.  Unless…

We don’t often think about the future of the church.  We talk about children in church as ‘the next generation’ when they’re a vital, hopefully integral part of today’s church, and we don’t seem able to think much further.  Why…