Thought for the Day Clips

1. "This weekend sees the start of celebrations marking the most important Sikh festival of Vaisakhi." - Jasvir Singh - 11/04/15

   Duration: 03:07

2. "The humanizing effect of being a stranger can be very powerful." - Rt Rev Graham James - 10/04/15

   Duration: 02:58

3. "I wouldn't claim that the proverb 'prevention is better than cure' has its origin in any holy book." - John Bell - 09/04/15

   Duration: 03:02

4. "...Jesus puts it more pithily – ‘freely you have received, freely give’ ". - Rev Dr Michael Banner - 08/04/15

   Duration: 03:02

5. "...But our best investment may be to ensure we’re part of a community where people know us and love us..." - Rev Dr Sam Wells

   Duration: 02:45

6. "In biblical terms, choice goes to the heart of the contract between people and deity." - Rev Joel Edwards - 06/04/15

   Duration: 02:53

7. "Many of us have a hunch that whatever it may look like, the story of history is not, after all, a tragedy." Elizabeth Oldfield

   Duration: 03:05

8. "Good Friday is a sombre day when for Christians the identity of God is seen in costly suffering." Rt Rev Graham James

   Duration: 02:49

9. "...Today begins the inexorable path towards his crucifixion." - Rev Lucy Winkett - 02/04/15

   Duration: 03:09

10. "For about human relationships the Bible is neither dewy eyed nor romantic." - Rev Dr Michael Banner - 01/04/15

    Duration: 03:05

11. "We’re approaching the three central days of the Christian year. They begin with the Last Supper." Rev Dr Sam Wells - 31/03/15

    Duration: 02:50

12. "...Or, as Jesus famously asked: 'Who, without sin, is going to throw the first stone?'" - Rt Rev Nick Baines 30/03/15

    Duration: 02:59

13. "In this new world, data is money, and therefore, I think, data is also power." - Elizabeth Oldfield - 28/03/15

    Duration: 02:43

14. Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis - 27/03/15

    Duration: 02:50

15. "...That kind of physical vulnerability tests our faith in God and in ourselves." - Rev Lucy Winkett - 26/03/15

    Duration: 03:03

16. "..Jesus ‘was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved’. And then that shortest verse ‘Jesus wept’." Rev Dr Michael Banner

    Duration: 02:47

17. "Prison policy can’t start with a theory of human nature, and it can’t start with a balance sheet." - Rev Dr Sam Wells 24/03/15

    Duration: 02:52

18. "Reputations are hard won, but easily lost." - Rt Rev Nick Baines - 23/03/15

    Duration: 03:08

19. "Great stories offer, somewhere, the possibility of redemption." - Elizabeth Oldfield - 21/03/15

    Duration: 02:56

20. “If our conversations can’t be robust then what is the point of living in a liberal society?” - Professor Mona Siddiqui

    Duration: 02:57

21. Bishop Tom Butler on L’Arche communites - 19/03/15

    Duration: 02:47

22. "Today there’s not much wilderness left for retreat." - Lord Singh - 18/03/15

    Duration: 02:50

23. "Love needs bodies to make it incarnate, and it has to be incarnate to be Love." - Rhidian Brook

    Duration: 02:53

24. "Foolishness is not a bad way to change the world." - Rev Professor David Wilkinson

    Duration: 02:56