WHAT we all need is more niceness in our dealings with others. I suggest that niceness is the equivalent of love in general society. ...

I WONDER what your hopes and dreams are for 2022. Perhaps you have already been making plans for the coming year? I suspect some of us ...

IN a world which at times seems to be going mad, people very often wonder what they can do to make things better, to restore a little ...

DON’T you think that life has felt a little like a snow-globe these last months? Everything has been shaken up and we’re all just ...

EVERY night, before she goes to sleep, my daughter asks for her favourite story. We have read Pinocchio more than 24 times this past ...

AS the Christian church enters the beautiful season of Advent again, we are reminded of the light that shines in the darkness. We wait ...

THIS coming Sunday sees the start of Advent in the church calendar, a season that I love. While the world around us is rushing towards ...

HAVE you ever looked at yourself in the mirror and asked yourself the point of it all? Chances are that you have — usually at a time ...

WHAT does it mean for us to remember? The publication of this week’s Henley Standard sits between Armistice Day and Remembrance Sunday,...

THERE can be little doubt that coronavirus has affected us all adversely. As we rise Phoenix-like from our isolation of body, mind and ...

IMAGINE yourself in the story of Sleeping Beauty — the king and queen have gathered everyone together to celebrate the birth of their ...

1. Keep talking To share things with someone special is wonderful. So many couples clam up or suppress problems. That’s a recipe for ...

DO you ever feel like you have information overload? If you read a newspaper, scan social media, watch the TV news or listen to the ...

THERE is really nothing like a good story. If we were lucky, we were introduced to the art of reading at a very early age and were ...

MY great grandfather, the Rev Henry Harries, was a renowned Welsh Baptist minister. People came from miles around to listen to his ...

HAVE a guess: What do you think the most often repeated command in the Bible is? Or, to put it another way, what is it that we are so ...

“WE are sorry but all our operators are busy.” How often have you heard that when trying to update your insurance policy or make an ...

ONE of the horrors we’re seeing in the news from Afghanistan is the treatment of women, which at heart arises from completely ...

HOW many of us lie on a beach in the month of August watching the children building sand-castles, playing beach cricket or teenagers ...