BRIAN MOUNTFORD

It may be school half term, but the Oxford University term is only three weeks in. My first encounter with this year’s freshers at Corpus Christi College was...

This is the full version of what the Mail printed in butchered form on 9 June 2018 Before I switched on ‘Love Island’ I was ready to say it was part of our t...

Just delighted that Philip Pullman has endorsed my forthcoming book, Friday's Child, to be published later this year by John Hunt Publishing. It's an antholo...

This extract from a recent funeral address struck a chord with an unusally large number of people, so I share it here. I think I know roughly what Sue though...

Just found this chapter from an old book of mine which sold but a few copies and was surprised by how good it was! I've edited it a bit. GOD IN MUSIC ‘Awake,...

Roughly once a year I’m lucky enough to travel as a cruise ship lecturer. We’ve been as far as Vietnam and China, but always prefer the Mediterranean. Unfort...

I think of myself as one of you – a tiller of the Marston clay - a land holder in Marston for £7 a year – yes, I have an allotment. People ask me what I grow...

I apologise to those who have been looking here for my latest blog. I have been completely absorbed with my own personal housing crisis, encouraging and cajo...

But he wasn’t really a believer. This is a frequent response when I say to a family planning a funeral or memorial service that they must choose a reading fr...

Bubbly and irrepressibly Jewish, Hindy Najman, the Oriel and Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture, urges me to attend her inaugural on 26 ...

Just returned from North East Spain having battled with the robotic mechanisms of mass tourism. At Girona Airport, the car hire executive was 'unable' to acc...

My time at SMV is fast running out like being in a canoe in the calm but accelerating water above the Niagara Falls knowing that very soon things are going t...

What affection we have for ‘Mum, Mum, Mum’* on Mothering Sunday. We know we shouldn’t, but we love it. We recognise the song’s aesthetic flaws. But it’s an S...

The studio is a stark rectangular cube in an old warehouse, a metal framed window at one end and a rough concrete beam across the ceiling. Stacked on the flo...