 A collection of newspaper interviews he had done over three decades was published in 2018 as "What We Talk About When We Talk About Faith".His latest book is "Angels" (published by Hodder & Stoughton 2019), which maps the origins of angels in religious thought, history, psychology and wider culture.Stanford, whose mother had multiple sclerosis, was chair of Aspire, Britain’s national charity for people with spinal cord injury, from 1991 until 2001 and again from 2005 until 2012.