Humpty Dumpty

If the four Gospels make it clear that there are different ways of understanding the Christian Gospel, it is equally clear from the first...

Jesse Stone, our favourite police chief with a remnant of a career in baseball, knows the difference. The difference, that is, between...

Paul must have found it far from easy to give advice to parents about the upbringing of children. It is one of those duties that are...

St Mary’s church, Belford, Northumberland is something of a pace-setter. Its website has a series of photographs of its trim interior. It...

When Brunel drove his tunnel through Box Hill, naysayers foresaw calamity. Passengers would not be able to breathe as the pressure grew....

When we think of the sixth of June, we think of a great fleet and a landing in Normandy. And we may possibly remember that something...

They tell me there are penguins in the Galapagos islands and I believe it. Had they told me in the days of Tasman that there were...

The other side of the world, we call the waters west of Chile. At least that is what the film has done for us. Understandable when you...

His name says it all. Charlemagne they called him. Charles the Great, Emperor. He lived from 747-814 and became Emperor of the West, that...

The odds are that practically all readers of this blog have had experience of A and E. Burns, breakages and blisters get taken to A and E...

In a lifetime we have gone from silent black and white films to talkies (with explosions) and colour. We have found a new way of seeing...

‘He fell about laughing,’ we find ourselves saying. ‘The bigger they are, the harder they fall.’ is another commonplace remark. ‘The...

You might have thought that in a society that has unobtrusively limped away from its Christian identity a replacement would have made...

Aim at nothing in particular and you‘re bound to hit it. That’s it then. Well not actually. However well thought through a young...