One of the key events in world history, 8th November 1519, as conquistador Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlan, the splendid capital of...

Jeremy Paxman: Parkinson's 'makes you wish you hadn't been born' This headline in this morning’s BBC news website caught my eye, not...

Heaven is not what you think.  Certainly not harp-strumming angels, with little lambs cared for by a carefully coiffured, blue-eyed...

The young firefighter, open-eyed and apprehensive, runs up the stairwell as everyone else runs down. Within minutes the North Tower is...

Will there be corridors in God’s new heaven and earth, in his glorious future?  Probably not. Personally I blame John Thorpe who in 1597...

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”  So begins the Bible, with Genesis 1:1. “When I think there was a day when a...

“Of course, you will have to forget everything you have learned so far!” It’s October, 1967 and I am having my first supervision with our...

So firebrand George Galloway, of the Workers Party, easily wins Rochdale with 39.7% of the vote after a divisive and controversial...

I was totally flummoxed.  No way could I work it out. Why do I have a moving image from about five metres above my car? This Tuesday I...

"It was just brilliant," Nisha Capper tells Newsbeat. "I never thought I'd be partying in the cathedral. Halfway through the night, I was...

Strangely I found myself seated in the very same place occupied by Prince Harry just nine months previous, three rows back and towards...

“I can’t put on a brave face any longer. I want to give up.” She continues: “How wonderful it would be to rest both my shoulders and my...

¡Hola! Did you know that going on holiday represents 13 points on the Holmes and Rahe stress scale?  Okay, that’s much less than hassle...

So Jesus sends his disciples on their first mission.  Lesson #1 – learn how to fail. Of course we are all wary of failure, to think that...

“This is what they do every time and that is what they are going to do now, but this isn’t going away because we have almost 1,000 pages...

Red lines are important and so we need to draw them with care and humility. Over Christmas I received a rather sad email from a pastor of...

I blame Andrew. It’s 17th August, 2012 and I am on the beach at Swanage enjoying our family holiday.  Away from the parish. Relaxed. Then...

In this era of dismal and dispiriting news, the message of the angels has a particular resonance: “I bring you good news that will cause...

Of course, there was no donkey.  Neither was Jesus born the very night Mary and Joseph arrived in Bethlehem.  And no cave, either. We...

The familiar intro and then Gloria, Gloria, Gloria, Gloria in excelsis Deo in excelsis Deo! So here we are once again in London, to...