How do you create a fresh ministry expression that builds relations between teenage guys and younger men, within and between parishes, and provides great opportunities to involve outsiders?

As we head towards a world of 10 billion people by 2050, it’s no surprise we are exhorted to consume less, to reduce our footprint. How else will humankind survive? How else will we lift billions of people out of starvation or abject poverty?

In his Christmas sermon at Canterbury Cathedral, the Archbishop of Canterbury says one of the lessons of the coming of Christ is that people shouldn't waste time waiting for larger-than-life heroes to bring comprehensive and total solutions to the ills of the world.

It took Christianity to introduce the world to the idea of God in the form of a baby: in the form of complete dependence and fragility, without power or control. If you stop to think about it, it is still shocking. And it is also deeply challenging.

The comfortable God that greets you in every gilded church interior is not to be found here. You cannot luxuriate in the heritage of faith and relax in the warmth of other people’s belief. You are on your own.

The suicide of a fellow student at Oxford 33 years ago has been revealed as one of the defining moments in the life of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams.