On my autumn hoodie I wear a gold-coloured pin, a small lion. I can see it now, at the back of the chair opposite. Not the lion of...

This morning’s most perceptive frontpage was not from the usual broadsheets nor from the mainstream tabloids but of all the national...

Sometimes good news catches you off balance. That certainly was our experience earlier this week when we turned up at an unfamiliar...

The big problem of global warming is that it is not a problem for me, not in my lifetime. The very opposite, in fact: warmer summers,...

Ken: I just don't know who I am without you. Barbie: You're Ken. Ken: But it's Barbie and Ken. There's no just Ken. That's why I was...

“Lighten our darkness, we beseech thee, O Lord.” This coming Sunday for the first time in aeons, I will be leading a service of choral...

“When things go wrong, don’t go with them,” so observed Elvis. Or someone else – quite a few would lay claim to this quote. But things...

He may have been the richest man in the world – but even so, I felt I owed him one, and so we visited the humble home in which he was...

It was painful to watch. You may have seen the item on last night’s BBC News at Ten from Pakistan, how an enraged mob in Jaranwala set...

As we approach a new season for the Premier League, the good news is that Everton is currently 9th, just behind Crystal Palace and one...

So here we are in the middle of a rather damp field in Kent, under an overcast sky, for our annual New Wine experience.  However, the...

For me it is the ultimate expression of Anglicanism as Chester Cathedral hosts “Making Tracks,” the model railway created by musician...

The big question, of course, is WHY? Why would anyone want to steal 200,000 Cadbury Crème Eggs? Two maybe, but 200,000! I came across...

“As always, should you or any of your IM Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This tape...

We are facing an epidemic of loneliness, and strangely social media is making things worse. At least that is the considered opinion of...

It was a ministry for a season.  Effective for its time and place, the ICS campsite ministry served a strategic purpose for its era.  But...

“Let the exile come, let the stranger come let the weary come find rest.” So begins Robin Mark’s haunting song “Come heal this land.”...

Well here we are in the walled township of Villefranche-de-Conflent, nestled in the foothills of the Pyrenees, about 50k from the...

I was ordained by mistake, or at the very least, the result of a big misunderstanding. There lies a tale and because the main events...

For me, it was more than the usual nerves. This was a spiritual battle as I desperately tried not to pray: “Lord, please, please don’t...