When it comes to war, diplomacy is not the coward’s way out. It takes action and bravery, not passivity or resignation, to resolve conflict. The world does not lack wisdom, but sometimes it lacks the resolution to apply it
John Studzinski, chairman of the Genesis Foundation, Thought for the Day, Radio 4, 2 July
If we want to change people and transform our communities we have to think far more creatively. If you lock someone up for five, 10, 15 years, but actually you don’t have anyway of helping people transform their lives, when they come out, they won’t be changed
Rachel Treweek, Bishop of Gloucester and lead bishop for prisons, quoted on BBC News website, 1 July
It’s well established that people don’t actually go to church as much as they say they go to church. Research from the US using cell-phone data suggests that, while 30 per cent of people say they go to church every month, only 20 per cent actually do
Tom Colls, series producer, More or Less, Radio 4, 2 July
We don’t need less religion in public life. We need better ways of talking about it — ways that allow both believers and non-believers to engage meaningfully, with honesty and depth
Kat Eghdamian, human-rights expert and writer on religion, Guardian website, 29 June
I wish I’d known how much it [Googlebox] took over our life for two and a half years. It’s reality TV; it’s by its nature consensual exploitation. So they come into your home. They’re filming in your home — it was quite intrusive really. But we consented to that intrusion, but I didn’t fully know just how
Kate Bottley, priest, Walking the Dog podcast, 26 June
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