from trinity college _ protect and manage them best.nk you very much forjoining us this evening on bbc news. time now for the weather. hello. many of us had some very potent heavy downpours to endure on saturday and sunday. monday's showers were, generally speaking, lighter in nature. now, tomorrow, there will be some showers once again, and actually, they could be set to turn heavier as this cold front pushes its way southwards and eastwards. along the line of this weather front, we could see some very heavy downpours, maybe the odd thunderstorm. we'll see some of that heavy thundery rain pushing its way southeast was across scotland overnight. some showery rain, too, into parts of northern ireland and northern england. ahead of that, quite a lot of cloud, but behind it, clear skies developing across much of scotland and northern ireland by dawn — so that means a mostly sunny start here as our band of showers pushes southwards and eastwards across england and wales. the showers tending to ease off for a time, but i think as we head int

over to all the majesty and of cambridge university and, was made a fellow of, i think it was trinity collegeand lived there for the rest of his very short. well he died young he was dying in the 1930s went actually back to india today but he was very ill lying in a hospital bed. london, i think. and g.h. hardy him famous story and hardy came his bedside in revenues and said oh hardy, how nice kind of you to come. did you come in a taxi? yes, i did. did you notice its number? and hardy was a mathematician, so he looks at all numbers? yes. he had a very boring number. 1729 and quick as a flash revolution. that's not a boring number. that is the smallest number that can be made by the sum of two cubes in two different ways. it's 12 cubed plus one cubed or ten cubed plus 37 cubed. it was unbelievably swift mathematical processing in his head, but he knew nothing else. he only knew mathematics. so he was incredibly clever. but he was not polymath. and not therefore wise. so looking through history of people who ticked all those boxes and were wise and question of whether wisdom is something that

and i'd you know, if we had we had the dean of trinity college chapel the other day claiming that jesushad his congregation in tears. we've got an archbishop of canterbury who would promote these illegal crossings of the channel to the detriment, i would argue, james, of the british people. and so the church is part of the problem. >> he agrees with you. >> he agrees with you. >> the church has become part of the problem, religion as it's been practised through. you know, the archbishop of canterbury, i'm afraid, has vacated the field. i mean, it's i'm certainly not a spokesperson for the church of england, but part of the teachings, as i understand it, of the church, is to do with charity tolerance and doing unto others, as you'd have done unto yourself all those things you mentioned seem to be in that basic framework , so you in that basic framework, so you can disagree with it. >> but the idea that that this is somehow the downfall of society, it's linked to the collapse of religion, what we do have is , is a lack of community have is, is a lack of community and a lack of personal sp

trinity united church of christ. it's great to be here with my friend and dear brother. you're a pastor and a someone that i've known you since we were teenagers at morehouse college, and it's great to be back here. welcome to all of the folks watchingi us online. i am excited to be here to talk about the latest book, dancing in the darkness, dancing in the darkness spiritual lessons for thriving through turbulent times. that's rich. there's a lot even in the title. dancing in the darkness, spiritual lessons thriving through turbulent times. i think that is something those are lessons that all of us could use at a time like this. i'm going to start with the most basic question what motivated you, what drove you to write to this particular book, to frame it in this particular way you preach every sunday and you also write. i realized several years ago that there was a spiritual edge in our country that people are attempting to scratch in a variety of ways. the sum of three social media and others thinking that if i have enough funds, the market will be able to scratch that itch but we still find that we are spiritually anemic and there is a necessity for us to go back to the