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Well it’s a new year and a new look! No, I didn’t get a new haircut (for those of you who only know me through reading these articles, I...

Love came down at Christmas. So the poem by Christina Rossetti goes. And so I believe it did. But that’s not all that came down at...

There is a path that I often walk. I have walked it many times. When I walk it, I don’t need to look where I am going, I know the path...

Some films find their success in being exactly what the audience expect, whilst others intentionally play with their expectations. When...

In the seventies there was a band who wrote a famous song entitled “25 or 6 to 4”. As a youngster I discovered this song as I was going...

I recently went away with my college to Rydal, a beautiful part of the lake district. While we were there, we were encouraged by the...

As many of you will know, this month sees the deadline for the last (and majority) of my second-year essays. As a consequence, lately my...

There are things in this life that I like, and things that I don’t. Things that I like include my bed. Things that I don’t like include...

Easter will soon be upon us. The day that we have been waiting for. Lent will finish, our waiting will end and Easter will come. The day...

As we head towards lent, as Church, we enter a time of waiting where we reflect upon Jesus’ life and prepare for his death (and...

As you may well know, I love learning more about the languages that the bible was originally written in. I feel that it really helps me...

Happy new year! It’s strange writing this knowing that as you read it, you are beginning 2023 whilst I am still finishing 2022. For you,...

When my mind is full of the business of life, I like nothing more than going for a walk to clear my head. There’s something about the...

Tanks roar and bullets fly explosions light up the midnight sky and as I look through the dense night air the intermittent flashes reveal...

Thursday the 8th of September 2022 was a strange day. As news of the Queens death spread across the country a strange almost palpable...

I’m on the verge of being late to a meeting at church. This isn’t that unusual because I have an unhealthy compulsion to try to fit...

Last week I drove past somewhere where I had gone for a walk with a friend a long time ago. It was only a short walk, but at its end was...

I don’t like politics. I find it wearisome and boring. Or least that’s what I tell myself, but the deeper truth is that I don’t like...

When I was an infant I attended a Church of England Primary school, where we had assemblies every day. In each assembly there would be a...

I am not famed for my observation, if anything, quite the opposite; my lack of observation is infamous. I once fell down a mechanics pit...