HOW democratic is our faith? Have you noticed a curious issue facing people of faith over the Brexit issue? Whether you are for or ...

THIS coming Sunday, the fourth Sunday of Eastertide, is known as “Good Shepherd Sunday” because that is the main theme of the biblical ...

ARE you feeling weary? In need of refreshment? A recent scientific study has suggested that sending employees on a pilgrimage-style ...

WHEN Thomas Hardy was so famous that any newspaper would gladly have paid enormous sums for his work, he would sometimes submit a poem,...

THIS week, the world looked on in horror as Notre Dame Cathedral, icon of Paris and a building that has stood for more than 800 years, ...

ARE we moving towards a dystopian society? Aldous Huxley thought so in his 1932 novel Brave New World and so did George Orwell in his ...

I HAVE been captured by goldfinches nesting in conifer trees quite close to my kitchen window. These small birds have the most ...

I READ recently a reflection that was about the front door of a house. The author likened our homes and the security and safety they ...

LAST Wednesday you might have noticed a few people with a big black smudge on their forehead. It was Ash Wednesday and I tend to be a ...

MANY of us will have been following the case of Shamima Begum and whether she should be allowed to return to the UK. We will each make ...

YOU might be glad to learn that we clergy are helped and encouraged to examine our souls, so that we can be aware of our strengths and ...

JOHN lived in a small village nestling in the Chiltern Hills, between Reading and Oxford. He hadn’t always lived there but his family ...

OVER the New Year period many cinema goers were taken back to their childhood days, either through watching the sequel to the 1964 ...

CAN we celebrate our lives while we are still alive without embarrassing others?  Waking on Thursday, December 6, 2018, the morning ...

I HAVE one particular clergy friend who always comes to my mind at the feast of the Epiphany, which the church celebrated last Sunday....

COMING to the end of one year and approaching a new one is, for me, a little like approaching a crossroads.  It is a time to take ...

WHAT days they must have been. Days when the might of the Roman Empire ruled the known world. Days when Caesar Augustus could issue a ...

CHRISTMAS for cracked and broken people? One of my abiding memories of school was the build-up to Christmas with school plays, parties ...

HOW and when will history, the human story, end? Thoughtful people in every generation have asked that question. The big questions ...

AFTER such a long, dry summer, my wife and I were quite amazed that our big, old apple tree managed to produce such an enormous crop ...