Not so long ago one family asked me to baptise their child. I hadn’t met them before. While we were preparing the event, the reason behind it was revealed. The child had been uneasy and noisy every night, forcing the parents to get up in the middle of the night. They had become so desperate they asked to baptise the…

At the beginning of September professor Stephen Hawking published his new book “The Grand Design”. The newspapers commented that the book was the ultimate proof against God. I’ve bought this book just for one reason: I greatly appreciate Stephen Hawking’s achievements in science. I’ve already read over a half of the book and found it extraordinarily interesting (if you like…

One month ago I was doing a 14-hour long route in the Cairngorms. Although I went there well-equipped, for the last two hours of my route I was dying with thirst because of the weather. I had no drinkable fluid left in a bottle or a flask. But I wasn’t so desperate as to take water from burns along the path;…

The papal visit to the UK, finishing today down in London, was preceded by several controversies: from theological to social ones. One of the most popular was the high cost of the pilgrimage, paid by the state. Some people said that the pope or the Catholic Church in the UK should pay for it. The Sunday Times, a magazine hardly…

Let me look around for a while… I’m looking for sinners… Are there any sinners among us here? Of course, we all are sinners, but – actually – we are not. We want to think about ourselves as decent people. And, trust me or not, we are quite decent people. Of course none of us is perfect, but we are…