It seems like everyone wants to read about Shambo the bull. My blog visitor numbers have never been so high. Even at the London Rathayatra festival on Sunday, people were asking us: “Is this a protest march for Shambo?”
The story of Shambo the bull is of course a sad tale. Despite last minute sea changes [...]
A member of our congregation recently asked me how to communicate the basic ideas of Krishna consciousness to an newly interested person. I replied that Srila Prabhupada showed us many ways to talk to new people, but that I felt it was important to have a number of ideas with logical connections between them. “Get [...]
Today has been the London Rathayatra. The sun shone pleasantly, and with just a little cooling breeze, a river of Vaishnavas flowed down Piccadilly Street, Piccadilly Circus, Haymarket then flooded into Trafalgar Square. I am always delighted each year when I now habitually pause at the Ritz Hotel to gaze at the thousands of happy [...]
Lord Dowding. The course of the war in Europe was changed by this non-smoking, non-drinking vegetarian who believed in reincarnation.
I live quite close to the north London borough of Stanmore. There’s an old estate there known as Bentley Priory which has been a base for the Royal Air Force since World War Two. The place [...]
Srila Prabhupada consistently stressed how important it is to understand the gifts of nature and of God’s plan for humans - who would think that cow-dung is an important part of it all?
Today I learned of how a small amount of traditional guidance saved the lives of many children in Africa. It was a [...]
Here is a map of the British Isles. You can see England, Wales and Scotland - known collectively as Great Britain - on the right hand side, and Ireland on the left hand side. Ireland is the small island off the coast of Great Britain.
This is the map of the British Isles I grew [...]
A leaf from the Dead Sea Scrolls. I finally get to see them…
I saw a fragment from the Dead Sea Scrolls today. I have always found these ancient texts intriguing and was happy to finally have a chance to inspect a portion of them. I suppose that growing up in the 60s and 70s while [...]
Stephen Hawking may not believe in God, but without religion as the moral and ethical basis of society would he still be alive?
Recently I was asked by Ben Davies, editor of The New Statesman magazine, to contribute to the online debate surrounding the new book God is Not Great. The book is yet another which [...]
Chateau de Petite Somme, Durbuy, Belgium, now the Radhadesh temple and home to the Bhaktivedanta College
This morning I attended a pre-breakfast engagement ceremony in the home-temple of Vivaswan das over in the Edmonton district of north London. Before breakfast is a good time for such religious functions, especially when they conclude with parathas (potato-filled wheat [...]
Peter McNulty the English toastmaster. At today’s wedding he told me that he writes Srila Prabhupada’s analogies into his own speeches!
Today I conducted my second wedding of the year. The first was a few weeks ago at a stately home, Goodwood House in Sussex, the former home of the Duke of Richmond, now belonging [...]
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