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In time of war bridges take on strategic importance. Whoever controls them may take the upper hand and ultimately win...
‘God does amazing things through tragedy’. There are many for whom this statement would seem a contradiction in terms. The...
How do you know you are loved? This week the famous footballer Michael Owen has sparked a lively debate by...
God's love
In 1943 Anna Jarvis campaigned to have Mother’s Day cancelled in America. This might not have been anything to note...
Once again evolutionary scientists are scratching their heads trying to find the reason behind one of our most common behaviours...
After two long years the hostages taken by Hamas have finally been returned. For the families left behind it has...
Grace and forgiveness
Over the last few years football fans have watched in disbelief as the Video Assistant Referee has disrupted the flow...
As much of the UK bakes in yet another heatwave, I’m reminded of the story of an Indian water bearer....
Howls of protest this week as Trump intervened over the red card awarded to Falorin Balogan the USA’s top goal...
The cross and resurrection
Sometimes things just don’t make sense. After months of preparation 40,000 people gather for a weekend of music, worship and...
Steven Spielberg’s famous film Saving Private Ryan begins with a graphic portrayal of the D-Day landings on Omaha beach. Thousands lose their...
Clearing up other people’s waste is extremely costly. Across Britain today there are hundreds of sites containing tonnes of waste,...
Who is Jesus?
As a licence fee funded service the BBC is not allowed to advertise. This means that whenever a brand name...
William Golding was a Royal Navy Lieutenant who took part in the D-Day landings. His experience of that conflict and...
Forty days on and Christmas is a distant memory. The bright lights that lit up our homes are back in...
Suffering and grief
I remember once sitting with the parents of a four-year-old who had tragically died. A bright and bubbly little boy...
The premature death of someone we love is one of the hardest griefs to bear. We are left with the...
For prospective homeowners nothing beats the sight of watching a new-build house rise from the ground. Rather less exciting is...
Life after death
On 10th March 1876 Alexander Graham Bell uttered the immortal words, ‘Mr Watson – come here – I want to see...
In a recent interview the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, declared, ‘one of the core principles in our system is...
I wonder what you long for in life and how you cope with disappointments when dreams don’t come true? This...
Reasons to believe
The natural world has some troubling aspects to it. Take for example the life cycle of the parasitic wasp. As...
In a world of spin doctors, fake news and social media driven conspiracy theories it’s getting harder to know what...
On 1st April 1957 the BBC scheduled an edition of its iconic Panorama programme. The subject was the harvesting of the...
Identity and worth
As most of Britain endures the hottest day of the fifth heatwave of the summer, alarm bells about of our...
In a recent interview Lady Gaga admitted that for many years her biggest fear was of being alone. In 2017...
With freezing temperatures I’m wondering whether I might wake up one morning to a blanket of snow outside. Only it...
Meaning and purpose
If you are cooling off in the latest heatwave with an ice-cold drink, you might want to raise a glass...
When the Michelin brothers started making car tyres, they weren’t thinking about fancy restaurants but how to feed themselves. To...
At the beginning of William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies a party of school children are stranded on a...
Following Jesus
The list of goods purchased by Peter Murrell using embezzled SNP funds reads like the items on the Generation Game...
In a world in which political leaders are prone to exalt themselves and cling on to power as if they...
On 10th April 1912 Father Robert Browne boarded the RMS Titanic for her maiden voyage. He had been gifted a ticket...
Loving others
In these days of polarisation and division we would do well to remember the origins of the American festival of...
Two men have been fined and ordered to do unpaid work after vandalising a statue of Paddington Bear. Pronouncing sentence,...
By the spring of 1621 only half of the Pilgrims who had arrived aboard the Mayflower were still alive, and...
Peace in troubled times
The leaders of Oman and South Korea must be scratching their heads in disbelief as long-time friend and ally, the...
After 35 years in ordained ministry, I was given a three-month sabbatical and on day one flew to Scotland to...
While Barbie and Oppenheimer were this summer’s blockbusters, Sound of Freedom has been the unexpected box-office hit of 2023. It...