Exiled Preacher

Christian Focus, 2024, 30 th anniversary edition,  129pp, hbk   The doctrine of the Trinity can sometimes seem just that, a doctrine we are...

Matthew Syed is one of the most insightful columnists writing today. A couple of his recent articles in The Sunday Times really made me t...

I am an ex-cyclist. I quit when it was me calling for my children to wait up, rather than the other way around. They were mid-te...

  "Depend upon it, sir", wrote Dr Johnson, "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mi...

  Yes, I know, according to the old cliche church ministers only work one day a week. That would be nice, but no. In fact, I only ...

Our post-Easter break was cut short. Something came up that necessitated the wife and me returning home a day early. Don’t worry, no...

  “Time passes” wrote Dylan Thomas in Under Milk Wood, “Listen. Time passes.” It certainly does. The ebbing away of an old year and the prom...

  “What's in a name?” asked Shakespeare’s character, Juliet, “ That which we call a rose, by any other word would smell as sweet .”   S...

‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there',  wrote L.P.   Hartley. Just how foreign and exotic is the...

According to a survey cited in The Times newspaper, around 75% of Church of England clergy believe that the UK can no longer be called a ...