“Ambition, the moth of holiness,” observes Stanley Tucci as Cardinal Bellini in Edward Berger’s political thriller Conclave .   With a...

To be with someone you love in terrible pain—and to stay with them—takes courage. In fact, the pain you endure as a witness can be just...

What’s the most wonderful, most extraordinary entity in the entire universe?   Answer: me.   Well—not just me, but my sense of being me....

Matthew, the disciple of Jesus, knew all about tariffs—he collected them. But it didn’t make him rich; it just cost him friends.   As a...

You can kick the can down the road – until you run out of road. And today, in so many areas, to abruptly change metaphors, the train is...

It’s not just ParkRun that inspires enthusiasts to travel the length and breadth of the country (and beyond) for their Saturday morning...

So it’s Clapham Common tomorrow – if all goes to plan, DV. Sadly, that’s another C. I’ve already done Crosby (28x), Croxteth Hall (2x)...

It’s here we give up in our resolve to read the Bible from cover to cover   We start strong—Genesis is full of fascinating stories as God...

This blog comes from where there are more Michelin stars per head than anywhere else on the planet!  I know this because this is how Evan...

Standing in a long queue at the park café, I quickly tapped my phone on the card reader to pay with Google Pay. Nothing happened. Panic...

There’s one commandment of Jesus that few Christians take seriously—and even fewer fully obey, including myself   We’re in central...

The basic problem, it would seem, is that it is too easy to sin.   This morning, I was struck by the disparity between what I read in the...

As I sit to write this blog, there’s an elephant in the room, a particularly big one.  And there is no way I can ignore it.  So here...

Storm Éowyn has arrived!  As I sit down to write this blog, looking out I can see the huge beech tree opposite swaying, battered by the...

Here we have Jesus at his most radical:  “And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.”  We may not...

So here we are in Tenerife for our annual vitamin-D fix. Lots of winter sunshine and seafront walks under blue skies and gently cooling...

Mind you, the church has always been in a mess -  particularly and especially  when it thinks it’s doing okay.   You probably didn’t read...

One of my main ministries in life is to remind people when it is Friday.     In fact, Stephen in his days as an airline pilot flying...

Above all, Christmas is a season of music.    Even our supermarkets sing the much-loved carols as they take in our cash. For even as...

“How pulchritudinous on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news!”   That’s my translation of Isaiah’s famous prophecy,...