My third child, I’ll call him George, was the only one of my four to be born on his due date.  Even then, he couldn’t wait! Once he went on a school trip and bought me a jar of sweets as a present. When he got off the coach, he proudly offered me the empty…

The idea of being part of something vast is encouraging; the writer to the Hebrews talks about the cloud of witnesses all around giving encouragement to believers to throw off the weight of sin and its entanglements to run the race to Christ. Being entirely unathletic I have never found the ‘race’ an appealing image…

With the world cup well underway, it is impossible to ignore the messed-up priorities of our world, in which the media’s obsession with popularism allows the game of football to take centre stage over human survival.  World leaders at COP27 took an extra day to reach any meaningful conclusion.  We can applaud the signing of…