What’s it like to lose everything? Just after my ordination a good friend, an experienced insurance assessor, offered his advice on...

You may not realise it – such it the effect of Christmas on our regular weekly routines – that today is Friday. Blog day. Mind you...

Mangers, of course, are dangerous. I learnt this a few years back when I asked one of our local farmers for the loan of a manger in...

Late start this morning. Our country may be experiencing a seismic shift but a granddaughter’s school nativity play always has the...

This morning I shall be nervously standing by the phone. You may laugh, but it seems that my lifetime ambition to be the player-manager...

I’ve made it so far to page 759, that’s 1¾ inches. For the past five years, I now realise, I have been ploughing my way through N.T....

“If you had asked me why I had joined the militia I should have answered: 'To fight against Fascism,' and if you had asked me what I was...

“Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience,” reflected American novelist Madeleine L'Engle. “I slowly moved into an...

Some thoughts from Percy Bysshe Shelley: You are now In London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on...

Terrible news of a former colleague in this morning’s Times: “Three British charity workers were killed in South Africa when their car...

Another tragic migrant story hits the headlines as 39 people from the other side of the world are discovered frozen to death in a...

“Discipline not desire determines your destiny,” declares pastor Charles Stanley. Someone clearly with an appreciation for alliteration. ...

Intractable problems invariably offer the challenge of reconciling two opposites. of squaring the circle. Usually they don’t just go...

We saw a fox, again. Our house backs onto a two acre field, separated by a mature tree line from a much larger area of farmland. ...

How you get there is as important as that you get there. This is a fundamental principle, above all which we see in the ministry of Jesus....

Taking the funeral of a good friend, to say the least, is a challenge but yesterday Paul’s family and friends were supportive of me as I...

Bring me my bow of burning gold! Bring me my arrows of desire! Great words from England’s National Anthem, but what are we singing?...

A remarkable article appeared on Wednesday in the left-leaning political magazine New Statesman, not the place you would expect to give...

With a relish, worthy of Salvador himself, I produced my passport. On Tuesday I had already queued for some 80 minutes for a ticket for...

"Yellow ribbons everywhere." Not a Tom Jones song but what you can see here in Catalunya, the Catalan 'autonomous community' in north...