Humpty Dumpty

Every time we put a dab of mustard on our ham (those of us who are carnivorous, that is) we join the vast number of diners who appreciate...

When we walk past a field of wheat or rape, the last thing on our mind is a smithy with its heat, noise and biting air. Yet the two...

Nobody could contemplate an eternity of futility. Yet this is what some worshippers seem to offer their neighbours as the crowning gift...

He spent many years as a teacher. He never left his native Cornwall. Ah, yes. During WW2 he served in the Navy. When he wrote of a...

‘Taste the difference’ is the slogan of one supermarket. It puts the spotlight on a customer. We do our bests to take it seriously. They...

As if it wasn’t enough to have King Agrippa saying: ‘With a little more of your persuasion you will make a Christian of me’ we have Peter...

It takes us a while to learn the value of tenacity. Shackleton learned it the hard way when he undertook his 800-mile journey in an open...

When people come together for worship, the result is a congregation. Dave, the driver, Tracey, the teacher, Jim the joiner, Hilary the...

‘I know…’ In Philippians 4.12 we hear the voice of experience. We read Paul for his breadth of understanding of man’s plight and God’s...

When an incumbent and his organist disagreed, they were observing a tradition. It happened when instrumentalists in the gallery found...

Bunyan wrote ‘Grace Abounding ‘, which nobody has read. He also wrote ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ which everybody has read. The former is...

Improve the Bible? Who would dare? Translators for one thing. If they didn’t do their job most of us would be unable to read the Bible at...

There are hymns that millions know even if they never go near a church. One of them is ‘Amazing grace’. Another is ‘Guide me, O thou...

If we come to the New Testament looking for the shape of an ideal society, we shall be disappointed. The New Testament contains many...

Stephenson had invented the four foot eight and a half inch inches gauge as the standard for his railway, everybody had copied him. Well,...

Time was when Sunday church-going started with the Venite, continued with a psalm and three collects. It was entirely predictable and...