The Honourable Mr Justice Cooke is a former Harlequins rugby player and now a High Court Judge. He has judged many high-profile cases, including the Pakistani match-fixing trial in which he condemned their behaviour as “not cricket”. He is vice-chairman of the Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship. Here he is interviewed, and then speaks on: “Does faith fly in the face of the evidence?”
John 12:1-11 Most people agree that faith can be a good thing so long as people don’t take it too seriously – moderation in all things. But is that right? Where do we draw the line between fanaticism and passion?
Isaiah 1:10-20 These days spirituality is hot; religion is not. But what does God think of organised religion? Some worship he hates, some worship he loves – it’s important we know the difference.
Isaiah 1:1-9 In ‘A History of the World’ Andrew Marr writes, “when it comes to our appetites, our anger, our relationship with power, there has been nothing like the advance we have seen in our scientific and technical culture”. What is wrong with the world? And what is the solution?
Acts 17:16-34 The French philosopher Albert Camus wrote, “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy”. Is it? If so, why?
James Cary is an award-winning comedy writer for BBC, having co-written two series of Bluestone 42 (BBC3), and worked on Miranda (BBC1) and My Family (BBC1) and numerous Radio 4…
John 11:38-57 Woody Allen once wrote: “Death is absolutely stupefying in its terror…It makes our lives look as irrelevant as waves breaking over the sea shore.” Even those of us who are convinced that there’s something better beyond death, still can find the thought of it very frightening. How can we approach our own deaths joyfully and confidently?
John 11:17-37 Is death just part of “the circle of life” (as the Lion King assures us)? Is it “nothing at all, [just] slipping away into the next room” (as one popular funeral poem puts it)? How are we to think about death? And especially, how are we to find comfort and hope when we experience the deaths of those close to us?
John 11:1-16 Pain and death confront us with the question of how a good God can allow so much suffering. This is a question we need to consider so that we can put the anchors in place before the storm hits.