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Losing our fear of an afterlife: the second of five, very short, morning reflections on the philosophy of Epicurus for BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

Losing our fear of the gods: the first of five, very short, morning reflections on the philosophy of Epicurus for BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

A few photos from a summer spin over to the bronze-age burial mound at Mutlow Hill on Fleam Dyke

“Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure”—letting ‘fellow suffering’ go and encouraging ‘fellow rejoicing’

The heat of the sun and the cooling philosophy of Nietzsche and Epicurus

A meditation on the meaning of ‘the best’, ‘second-best’ and of becoming, perhaps, a fox without a hole or a bird without a nest

In praise of the NHS and the wonderful pluralist, cosmopolitan, international mix of caring professionals one meets at every turn—a veritable Republic of Heaven

And would it be so strange a thing, Among the rainy hills of Spring, A veritable god to see In luminous reality?

What are feasts for?—A very brief Epicurean meditation for our church's Wednesday lunch club