BRIAN MOUNTFORD

Some of you may know I am publisher of an imprint called Christian Alternative for a small British publishing firm. In March, the owner...

I’m taken aback when Charlotte asks over Sunday lunch, ‘Do you ever pray, Dad?’ I’m very uncomfortable when faced with what I regard as an

My experience of religion We don’t choose our parents or the time or the culture we’re born into. You might be born into a wealthy family...

Walked up the High Street to lunch in Exeter College and felt the buzz of students in sub fusc coming back for the Examination Schools...

The two Corpus Carol Services were a wonderful climax to my year there as Acting Chaplain. Sadly, just as you are bonding with the choir...

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...

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...

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

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...

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....

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...

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....

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

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...

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

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

This portrait of me, painted by Rosalie Watkins who works in Lavender Hill, London, was my leaving gift from the people of the University...

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...

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...

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...