I learnt pity sympathy and what it was like to be at the other end of the...
My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the...
Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism and when it cracked...
For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of...
The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me and...
During the Second World War evacuated to non-Jewish households I...
Praying privately in churches I began to discover that heaven was my true...
I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness...
I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give...
To my surprise my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s and I...
Windows are as essential to office prestige as Christmas is to retailing.
Then when I got in the military I used to host - even in high school - I...
At school there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom...
No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal...
In our racist sexist society Christmas is the 8 hours when we stop killing...
I wouldn't recommend young kids see 'Speedway Junkie.' It's definitely an...
I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to...
The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I...
Every Christmas now for years I have found myself wondering about the point...
It felt very natural to me to write a Christmas song but at the same time I...