Collected Thoughts: The Radio 4 Thought for Day Broadcasts

by James, Eric

• ISBN13: 9780826464002
• ISBN10: 0826464009
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic

Author Biography

Eric James is Director of Christian Action and a Chaplain to the Queen. He is also Select Preacher of Gray's Inn London.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
1992
To intervene or not to intervene	1	(1)
Friday 10 July
The voice of the victim	2	(2)
Friday 17 July
The Eleventh Commandment	4	(1)
Friday 24 July
The solution	5	(2)
Friday 31 July
Hope	7	(1)
Monday 28 September
Profit without honour?	8	(2)
Tuesday 24 November
The Scream	10	(1)
Wednesday 25 November
Power or influence?	11	(2)
Thursday 26 November
1993
Good out of evil	13	(1)
Friday 1 January
An example of valour	14	(1)
Friday 8 January
Lord, have mercy	15	(2)
Friday 15 January
The mystery of royalty	17	(1)
Friday 22 January
We'll gather lilacs	18	(2)
Friday 29 January
Vulnerable God	20	(1)
Tuesday 22 June
A splendid failure	21	(1)
Wednesday 23 June
The significance of recognition	22	(2)
Thursday 24 June
1994
The public and the private self	24	(1)
Tuesday 15 February
1995
Making our mark	25	(3)
Saturday 8 July
Peace and beauty - and messy realities	28	(2)
Wednesday 30 August
The Peace Process	30	(1)
Thursday 7 September
St Martin-in-the-Fields	31	(1)
Thursday 14 September
Sleep, Holy Babe	32	(2)
Friday 8 December
Children and crime	34	(1)
Friday 15 December
Where all the love comes from	35	(1)
Friday 22 December
The Cheapside brat	36	(2)
Friday 29 December
1996
Is it war?	38	(1)
Thursday 7 March
The natural is never enough	39	(1)
Tuesday 12 March
The experience of unemployment	40	(2)
Tuesday 19 March
The children	42	(1)
Thursday 23 May
The Old Bailey	43	(1)
Thursday 30 May
Do this	44	(2)
Thursday 6 June
I'm not talking to you	46	(1)
Thursday 13 June
Risk	47	(1)
Wednesday 4 September
Members one of another	48	(2)
Wednesday 11 September
The truth of humanity	50	(1)
Wednesday 18 September
A lonely life	51	(2)
Wednesday 25 September
Growth in Godliness	53	(1)
Saturday 16 November
Brief encounter	54	(1)
Saturday 23 November
We are the music makers	55	(2)
Saturday 30 November
Christian Action	57	(1)
Saturday 7 December
1997
Mere ritual?	58	(1)
Wednesday 5 March
Sing as we go	59	(2)
Wednesday 12 March
Mystique and politique	61	(1)
Wednesday 19 March
The wrecks of time	62	(2)
Saturday 28 June
Corruption	64	(1)
Saturday 5 July
Why are we waiting?	65	(1)
Saturday 12 July
Alone on a wide, wide sea	66	(2)
Saturday 11 October
Redundant	68	(2)
Saturday 18 October
The dial hand of Time	70	(1)
Saturday 25 October
An awful responsibility	71	(2)
Saturday 1 November
1998
What lies beyond	73	(1)
Saturday 24 January
The exact help needed	74	(1)
Saturday 31 January
Truth and the Titanic	75	(2)
Saturday 7 February
Companions	77	(1)
Saturday 18 April
Trevor Huddleston RIP	78	(1)
Tuesday 21 April
The Community of the Resurrection	79	(2)
Saturday 2 May
Harmony	81	(1)
Saturday 4 July
Compromise	82	(1)
Saturday 11 July
Bring my soul out of prison	83	(2)
Saturday 18 July
Doing the Resurrection	85	(1)
Saturday 25 July
Our precarious existence	86	(1)
Saturday 1 August
No thought of the harvest	87	(2)
Saturday 26 September
Jesus the entertainer	89	(1)
Saturday 3 October
Welfare	90	(1)
Saturday 10 October
1999
Prayers for people in prison	91	(2)
Saturday 6 February
Valentines	93	(1)
Saturday 13 February
The mystery of Time	94	(1)
Saturday 20 February
VJ Day	95	(2)
Monday 21 June
My unconquerable soul	97	(1)
Monday 23 August
Divinity through humanity	98	(1)
Monday 30 August
Dependence, independence, interdependence	99	(2)
Monday 6 September
A Passage to India	101	(1)
Monday 13 September
2000
No future without forgiveness	102	(1)
Saturday 8 January
To the altar of God	103	(2)
Saturday 15 January
Moral anger	105	(1)
Saturday 22 January
Sport	106	(1)
Saturday 29 January
O you wonder!	107	(2)
Saturday 20 May
What if?	109	(1)
Saturday 27 May
Religious education	110	(1)
Saturday 3 June
Bridges	111	(2)
Saturday 10 June
The mystery and miracle of existence	113	(1)
Saturday 12 August
Creative suffering	114	(1)
Saturday 26 August
Unless I be relieved by prayer	115	(2)
Saturday 2 September
The flame of the Everlasting Love	117	(1)
Saturday 9 September
The worst form of government	118	(1)
Saturday 16 September
If you dig deeper	119	(2)
Saturday 21 October
Guy Fawkes' Day	121	(1)
Saturday 4 November
Living with mystery	122	(1)
Saturday 30 December
2001
The journey	123	(2)
Saturday 6 January
Problems into gifts	125	(1)
Saturday 13 January
Unity, peace and concord	126	(1)
Saturday 20 January
Where can I best serve?	127	(2)
Saturday 24 February
My God, my God, why?	129	(1)
Saturday 3 March
Humour in heaven	130	(1)
Saturday 10 March
Almighty God . . .	131	(2)
Saturday 17 March
Withdrawal with intent to return	133	(1)
Saturday 28 July
Ageing -- and the Queen Mother	134	(2)
Saturday 4 August
Faith and music	136	(1)
Saturday 11 August
Fellow delinquents	137	(1)
Saturday 18 August
2002
God Save the Queen	138
Saturday 1 June