evidence: Lockdown has kept us all at home over the last year, which means that many people have had more time to read and have found solace in the written word. We asked some friends of Thinking Faith to tell us which texts have captured their locked-down imaginations. Enjoy browsing our lockdown library! [...] Lockdown has had an eerie resonance for me of my time in Northern Ireland: of not being able to go out freely, of someone/something out there trying to get you, the monotony of the routine, the tedium of the same company and same experiences – but this time I carry a face mask and hand gel, and not a flak vest and a rifle. And there is the same vague sense of disappointment with myself: in Northern Ireland I realised that I was not a heroic leader but a very ordinary platoon commander, highly unlikely to win a Military Cross; in lockdown I realised that I am not a Jesuit saint who, like Aloysius Gonzaga, ministers to plague victims or does extraordinary things in the world’s hour of need. Lockdown, like being locked up, deprives us of many of the things that humanise us and make life joyful. A few transcend that; a lot don’t. [...] The considered and loyal choices and sacrifices for one another that Harry & co make time and time again rang truer in lockdown than they might do at any other time. See you all in The Three Broomsticks.