An incident yesterday showed me what happens when Christians hurt each other, sadly an all-too-common occurrence: that God himself is...

Tomorrow I achieve a major milestone, or more precisely a major kilometre-stone: it’s my 150thParkRun. Sadly I am not awarded with a...

“Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot,” claims W.H. Auden. “The reality is so...

As we await the third episode of Line of Duty, I regret not taking notes during the first four series. The genius of Jed Mercurio’s...

Each Tuesday at Ormskirk's Park pool Sarah tries to drown me. I now know her technique. To begin with she aims to tire me out through...

"How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than the honey to my mouth." (Psalm 119:103). So what does God taste like? I’ve just...

The problem is not just that there is no consensus but that there is no consensus on what a consensus should look like. I write this...

Terrible news this morning from the other side of the world. It seems that 49 people have been killed and at least 20 wounded in...

Grandma Josephine, Queenie (who breaks a leg), the Gingerbread Man, the Whomping Willow, Hermione Granger and above all (she won a prize)...

Sad news, sad but not unexpected. After nearly 70 years of serving the Christians and their churches of our region the Southport...

We are witnessing an entire country in freefall in which nine out of ten people cannot afford their daily food and where health care has...

Now that I have retired I am planning to do some painting and so for inspiration I went this Tuesday to the Leonardo Da Vinci exhibition...

Great belated birthday gift from Alan and Wanda: Neil Oliver’s “The story of the British Isles in 100 places.” I look forward to reading...

I almost lost my breath as I was hit by a solid wall of cold air as I started to trudge down the steps, one hand near-frozen as I held...

Well, how things have changed!  Who would have thought? Being a Christian all these years, well over half a century, gives a certain...

The gruelling Civil War is over; the monarchy has been restored and is now reformed. It’s 1688 in the excellent history of the English...

Just opened the BBC news page to be surprised and saddened to read that BBC’s North West Tonight’s resident Geordie, Dianne Oxberry, has...

We’ve all been invited by the archbishops to #followthestar throughout the 12 days of Christmas, ending with Epiphany this Sunday. Even...

“The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour...

With just four days to go, I’m feeling remarkably relaxed – even with three granddaughters currently resident. (That’s why I’m writing...