Exiled Preacher

  Relax if you are given to tardiness. This isn’t a piece on the importance of punctuality. Rather, I want to reflect on our relationship ...

Day One Publications, 2024,  432pp, pbk ‘May you live in interesting times’, says the old Chinese curse. Well, we have certainly been living...

  The crucifixion of Jesus was the supreme manifestation of human malice and hatred. Those who plotted his demise knew he hadn’t done anythi...

Snowdrops, Mells  A galanthophile is a person who loves snowdrops. Apparently, there are around 500 different varieties of this delicate, wh...

Joseph, a carpenter from Nazareth was considering breaking off his engagement to Mary. She was pregnant. And he wasn’t the father. According...

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’m an ex-cyclist. I quit when I was the one calling for my children to wait up, rather than the other way around. They were in ...

  "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 cliché, church ministers only work one day a week. That would be nice, but no. In fact, I only...