March 2024

  • Holy Week & Easter

    Christianity is realistic about the way things are. Life brings us many joys, but also many sorrows.  Joys can be exhilarating, empowering, transformative. Sorrows can be dark, deep and destructive. A friend of mine, now long since departed this life,...

  • Look for the best wardrobe

    So, we are halfway through Lent. How’s it going for you? I am always vulnerable to becoming a bit demoralised at this point. Either because good intentions have not been realised or not even started! There is great danger that...

  • Does the 'failure of the task' lie with us?

    My teenage son is a fan of The Apprentice, a format that has been repeated for 18 seasons in the UK with more-or-less the same challenges each year. For all the time it has been running, it’s never a surprise...