“Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience,” reflected American novelist Madeleine L'Engle. “I slowly moved into an...

Existential doubt and purpose, individuality and identity. These are big issues of life addressed by the film I went to see this week. ...

"Expectancy," mused pentecostal pioneer, Edwin Louis Cole, "is the atmosphere for miracles." I could have done with a miracle on Sunday...

“These are the decisions of a prime minister in a hurry’” observes BBCs political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, of our new prime minister. ...

There’s one thing to be said in their favour, squirrels think. I know, I’ve just been watching one. Some background here. We have...

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...

You may not have realised it yet – my apologies – but today is a Saturday. I say that because for the first time in about 20 years I...

“Good. It's going to need careful training, the commander-in-chief wants a special squadron formed. it'll be best if you formed it...

“There are no road signs in English. Everything is in French. It’s really not practical.” So sadly concluded Xiao Liu from Beijing, on...

Well, this time next week we will know the outcome, whether there will still be blue in the Union flag. Not that this has been an easy...

Early morning, 6thJune. “Your task will not be an easy one. Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened, he will...

For the first time in 40 years I am saying he/him rather than the default she/her. It’s not easy. Even yesterday when I held newborn...

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...

Tommy Halsall was a fixture of Aughton. Serving as verger and sexton, school caretaker, choir member and bellringer, he served Christ...