It was 50 years ago, almost to the day, when I took possession of my little Viking man. I won him in a 400m race in the university town...

It’s summer 1970 and I’m doing North America by Greyhound. My longest journey is the 947 miles from Vancouver to San Francesco. As the...

My friend Harry was there. I worked with Harry for three years in District H: we were both social workers with the Liverpool Social...

It’s a tale of two lawns. We had no choice really. Our builder, for quite understandable reasons, wrecked both our front and back...

We live in unsettled and unsettling times. We’ve just voted in an election no one was expecting and no one knows whether those elected...

Well, it’s that time of the year again. “Royaume-Uni, nul points!” I have to confess that I will not be joining the 186 millions of you...

The commentator for Radio 5 Live was almost incoherent when Lucas Moura scored for Spurs in the closing seconds of the Champions League...

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...