Exiled Preacher

  It was bad enough when a woman of a certain age complimented me for looking 'dapper'. I thought only snappily dressed ...

‘What will the neighbours say?’ worries Mrs Waldo in Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas. Her husband’s much gossiped about behaviour was tarnis...

That's how early followers of Jesus reacted to emerging reports that he had risen from the dead.  I mean, once you're de...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn In July 2024 on BBC Question Time political commentator Andew Marr hailed the election of the new Labour government l...

Some local councils (not ours, thankfully) have changed their Christmas Festivals into Winter Festivals. On seeing that people often...

Wikimedia Commons The musical Hamilton has been a big hit, with acclaimed performances on Broadway and London’s West End. The Hamilton in qu...

  My wife and I have been on and off members of the National Trust for many years. Our latest 'on'...

In his poem Dover Beach published in 1867, Matthew Arnold pictured the tide going out on the sea of faith with a “melancholy, long, withdraw...

God without Passions: The Majesty of God's Unshakeable Perfection , by Samuel D. Renihan, Broken Wharfe, 2024, 86pp Throwing in 'I a...

Who would be a politician, especially today? Our political leaders are forever trying to balance the competing demands of different sector...