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Many moons ago, when Noah was a lad, I lived in a town which boasted a municipal putting green. This green was popular with groups of...

Next time you are walking through the back streets and alleyways in your local area, look carefully at what surrounds you. The streets...

During the first lockdown I read “Wilding” by Isabella Tree, the inspiring story of how the writer and her husband made the decision to...

Let me ask you two questions? Firstly, in the last 20 years, do you think that the proportion of the world’s population living in extreme...

We live in an interconnected world. Another name for this is globalization; defined as the spread of products, technology, information,...

Happy Star Wars Day everybody! This is something I say every year without fail despite never having watched a single minute of any of the...

Bedford High Street runs between two statues of famous people. At one end is John Bunyan, once held prisoner in Bedford Gaol for his...

“Then God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and...

Hezekiah’s Illness In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said,...

I hope you have all seen, at least once, the powerful video clip put together by Catherine Booton and sent out by the Congregational...

I have drunk in (possibly) the best coffee shop in the world. Given that Starbucks alone has over 31,000 worldwide branches that is some...

Experts tell us that autism affects about 2% of people, and that males are up to ten times more likely to be on the autistic spectrum...

I like to keep informed of what’s happening in the church, news that otherwise might escape my attention. News about the local, national...

When I was a child, for two successive summers, our family went on holiday to Swanage in Dorset. Swanage is a very beautiful south coast...

Ok. So here’s a quick quiz question to test your general knowledge. In the last 23 months how many Covid tests have been taken in the...