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Imagine for a minute that you were born into one of the world’s poorest countries. Married young, you had the first of six children at...

I will tell of the kindnesses of the LORD, the deeds for which he is to be praised, according to all the LORD has done for us. Isaiah...

It was just another tree. Except that it wasn’t. This was the “Sycamore Gap” tree which had stood for over 150 years beside Hadrian’s...

One of my new-found pleasures has been the discovery of John Bunyan’s less known writings. Towards the end of his life, when he was out...

I collect interpretations of the Last Supper. These include: a knitted one, a wooden plaque, a plaster cast painted to look like bronze,...

I was browsing my books when I came across Prayers of Life by Michel Quoist, 1918 – 1997, a French Catholic priest and writer. Here is...

In America, 20th March marks Snowman Burning Day. When I read this I have to say it brought up all sorts of rather unsavoury pictures in...

I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. - Psalm 139:14 One of my...

The Headlines. Man armed with Crossbow shot dead by Police Israel West Bank hospital raid kills three militants HSBC fined £57.4m for...

Have you given anything up for Lent? If you did, how is it going, one week in? I have friends who annually give up chocolate during...

Today is the Feast Day of St Valentine. St Valentine was a 3rd-century Roman saint, commemorated in Western Christianity on February 14,...