A cross on its own doesn’t mean anything. It’s only how we live our lives in a way that reflects the values of the cross that makes them truly Christian and breathes life into them

Guli Francis-Dehqani, Bishop of Chelmsford, House of Lords Podcast: Lord Speaker’s corner, 15 June

A priest who uses AI [to write sermons] is just indicating that he can’t be bothered. And doesn’t it also demonstrate a lack of faith? You can’t turn to both God and Claude for inspiration. Pick a team

Mary Wakefield, The Spectator, 13 June

One of David Hockney’s distinctive techniques was to refuse a traditional, single point of perspective in his painting, but to use more than one visual viewpoint, which mirrored more accurately the way we see the world in real life when we look. Just last month, weeks before he died, his latest exhibition included a hand-written note, to himself, perhaps, but certainly to you and me: “Put your phone down,” he wrote. “Look with both eyes”

Lucy Winkett, Rector of St James’s, Piccadilly, Thought for the Day, Radio 4, 16 June

A truly great artist and a wonderful Yorkshireman has died. David Hockney told the Yorkshire Post in 2018 that teaching people to draw was teaching them to look. We need such careful looking in our world today and his vision taught generations to see the world afresh

Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York, X, 12 June

In times past, saints were, if you like, influencers, creating an aspirational culture based not on acquiring more things but doing good works. They show us what we are capable of

Tim Stanley, writer for the Telegraph, Thought for the Day, Radio 4, 15 June

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