This week, among the deluge of harrowing news emerging from Ukraine, I heard the story of two Scottish men who, at the very start of the conflict, drove to Poland to begin helping Ukrainians move acro...
It is the season of Lent and, traditionally, it is a time when we reflect on our own shortcomings and focus on spiritual growth. Around the 10th century, Lent became linked with Jesus spending 40y day...
Has anyone ever deliberately done something that makes you feel inferior or look bad in the eyes of others?
For example, have you ever been physically bullied? Has someone ever made a belittling rema...
I had a few experiences of church when I was growing up.
When I was about seven or eight years old, my family were regular attendees until I was expelled from Sunday School (no idea why, ask my mum)....
My family and I were very blessed to be able to afford a short vacation, and I excitedly booked return flights to Miami with American Airlines.
It was only when I received a confirmation e-mail from ...
I have a confession to make, and that is that I am a mad-keen angler.
I love fishing. Whether float-tubing down the Green River in Utah for cut-throat trout, wending my way up a Scottish river castin...
In the 1960s, cartoonist Kim Casali began a comic strip called "Love is …" and by the mid-1970s was earning over $6 million a year in royalties.
Through cartoons that appeared in newspapers, on fridge...
Superabundance
If there is one miracle of Jesus that, today, almost everyone seems able to recall, it is him turning water into wine.
Perhaps it is because this is the first miracle encountered in Jo...
When you have an epiphany – under a flash of popping light bulbs – you suddenly grasp the reality or truth of something.
From that moment on, you see things differently and look at the world with new...
What if the underlying narrative or the unspoken message that some of us have learnt from our church upbringing or our connection with Christianity, is that God ultimately wants us to be "better" peop...
