Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound) That sav'd a wretch like me! This Monday Jacqui and I went to the sofa cinema at Fact, Liverpool,...

I just managed to catch the 17.07 to Lime Street from Euston. At 17.27 the Virgin tweet appeared in dramatic block capitals. "NEW: ALL...

This blog comes to you thanks to imigran, from the laboratories of GlaxoSmithKline, for which I praise God. At about 5.00 am this...

This Monday I had just returned from an early morning run while it was still cool. I found myself sharing the small lift with a man about...

Q How do you damage, even destroy, a church? A Give it a £1million. That’s what happened to a friend’s church – not in...

Devastation, desolation, and destruction! Hearts faint and knees tremble, all loins quake, all faces grow pale! This week it’s Nahum...

With two of our five granddaughters in residence now watching an early morning showing of Peppa Pig, a somewhat rough and ready blog as...

Looking back it all seems so inevitable – but it didn’t feel like that at the time. The story of the building and commissioning of the...

This will impress you. I have successfully attained the food safety and hygiene for catering at level 2. The news broke yesterday...

Not much time this morning – I have a breakfast date with Santa as we take Kate and Tess to school. Grandad rule #1 – never be late for...

It was the vicar of Ormskirk, Chris Jones who insisted that we do not appear on stage alongside Santa. There has to be a definite...

It is a truly terrifying prospect, of drifting away, alone and defenceless, into the vastness of space, with no hope of recovery. I had...

“Let me tell you a story.” This could be an introduction to the scriptures – for that is what the Bible is, a story, with a beginning,...

One thing I learnt from my time as a young reporter at the Crosby Herald/Formby Times is that you can always track someone down. This...

It’s strange how simple events can remind you of particular people. Putting the demerara sugar on my porridge this morning reminded me of...

To have a great idea is the easy part. It’s the doing which counts. As my fellow Evertonian, Sir Terry Leahy, observed “execution is...

Tomorrow – assuming I get away from the Diocesan Synod in good time – I will be running through 10 kms of mud in the two-lap Standish...

So there I was, being driven in a taxi through the heart of the Finnish countryside in the midnight sun singing “We plough the fields and...

This desk is a mess. So before I do anything else, it needs tidying. As Mr Aspinall taught me in primary school: “A tidy desk means a...

The owner of Norton Grange hotel, opposite our vicarage in Rochdale, was planning to open a health club. He came over to win our support....