Author: David Wilkinson

ECLAS IN THE NEWS Evolution and the Culture Wars

This is a transcript of a Thought for the Day, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 21 July 2025.   As a US President files a lawsuit for 10 billion dollars, on this day one...

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ECLAS IN THE NEWS Celebration and humility on the anniversary of VE Day

This is a transcript of an episode of BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day, broadcast on 5 May 2025. Later today, the VE Day celebrations will feature extracts from Churchill’s famous “This is your...

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Cosmology The strongest evidence yet of life beyond Earth?

Earlier this month, a team of astronomers led by Professor Nikku Madhusudhan at the University of Cambridge published data from the James Webb Space Telescope and claimed, “This is the strongest evidence yet there is...

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ECLAS IN THE NEWS Politics and the priesthood of all believers

Photo Credit: Unsplash This is the transcript of the Revd Prof David Wilkinson’s ‘Thought For the Day’ on BBC Radio 4, 28th April 2025. Good morning. From the funeral of a global religious leader, the...

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Church calendar The Creed: That God made all things

This is the text of a sermon given by Revd Prof David Wilkinson as part of BBC Radio 4’s Lent talks, on the 1700th anniversary of the Nicene creed. A little while ago I was...

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ECLAS IN THE NEWS Seeking To Serve And Not To Rule

Photo Credit: Unsplash This is the transcript of the Revd Prof David Wilkinson’s ‘Thought For the Day’ on BBC Radio 4, 24th February 2025 Good morning. The meetings this week of European leaders with President Trump...

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ECLAS IN THE NEWS Hope in a Time of Political Crisis

This is the transcript of the Revd Prof David Wilkinson’s ‘Thought For the Day’ on BBC Radio 4, 17th February 2025 Good morning. As the political tsunami of the phone call between Presidents Trump and...

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ECLAS IN THE NEWS The Fragility and Vulnerability of Human Life within the Universe

Photo Credit: Unsplash Asteroid 2024 YR4 has been making the news. Most asteroids don’t get much media coverage, but if they have a 2.3% chance of hitting the earth in December 2032, and they are...

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