December 2022

This blog is an invitation to us all to wake up and see afresh the wonder of Christmas. The landing point of this blog is the following two verses from Psalm 139: 5 You hem me in behind and before,...

I was looking forward to the carol service and nativity play.  I knew it would be a real feel-good event, with proud parents (and grandparents) watching their children dressed up as shepherds, some slightly wobbly angels with tinsel wings and...

In the run up to Christmas (formerly known as Advent) each year there is a survey conducted to find the most popular Christmas Carol. For many years the same carol has occupied the number one, or occasionally the number two,...

In the next week there is going to be an unusual phenomenon in the night sky when the planet Mars goes behind the Moon. This was observed many centuries ago and was one piece of evidence that early astrologers used...