Today (Tuesday) I rang my Dad on the occasion of his 80th birthday. We'll be doing lunch on Thursday in Cambridge. I clearly remember his...

2020 seems to be the year we cancel events in a much more relaxed manner without the customary hand-wringing and false guilt of previous ...

It troubled me to hear on the lunchtime radio news on Wednesday about the demise of free speech in India. India, a nation born of protest...

'The Lord went in front of them in a pillar of cloud by day, to lead them along the way, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them...

If we set aside any reference to Caribbean dance moves or Roman Catholic theology, the word Limbo has come to us from Middle English and ...

'For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think wi...

These are interesting times in which to be both a father and a pastor. One is supposed to have firm opinions about stuff in both roles, t...

Photo by Austin Chan on Unsplash Speak, Lord, in stillness or storm, in circumstance or sign, in scripture or word, in conscience or hear...

Croatian theologian Miroslav Volf wrote this yesterday: We are drowning in fake news and often complain about it. But it’s ubiquitous pa...

I write this to you having just had a zoom meeting with Ian, our proposed guest speaker / film introducer for Sunday. His business in Auc...

"The 'stitch in time' is simply the prompt sewing up of a small hole or tear in a piece of material, so saving the need for more stitchi...

Photo by Holger Link on Unsplash I read with some dismay of President Putin boasting about his new hyper-sonic Avangard glide vehicle, ca...

I found an anthology in the Salvation Army charity shop today, and here is one of the poemsit contained, something suitable for us as we ...

In 1982, when I was fifteen, my mother landed me the job of after-school produce assistant at Foodtown, Howick. Because she was a respect...

The news media advises of the passing of Garth Gilmour, prolific journalist and author, on June 25th, aged 94. Garth caught the jogging c...

Henry Ward Beecher, 19th Century American preacher and journalist said; "The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be wit...

Photo by Kyle Glenn on Unsplash Clearly, in a global sense, we are far from being 'Post-Covid.' The desire to open borders more comprehen...

I guess I have a contrarian streak. The jury is out on whether it has served me well over the years. I drink the tart wine of skepticism ...

Silence and inactivity unsettle us. Not everyone, essential workers were busier, but some of us had a period of quiet in alert level 4 es...

On Sunday before my sermon we played a version of John the Revelator by Blind Willie Johnston, composed in 1930. I'd hoped to show you th...