Six wives the King’s had now.’ Barak’s words dragged me from my reverie. ‘We can’t even get one between us.

In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.

Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men...

Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the ‘last days’ before Armageddon and, again just as now, saw signs all around in the world that they...

We of alien looks or words must stick together.

The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can’t escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God would enjoy making hell for us after we die.

Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.