Many years ago, I heard a Christian stating that “Video recorders were invented for the benefit of Christians who didn’t believe you should watch TV on a Sunday!”  Presumably, this would enable the Christian to watch a Sunday programme on another day without any sense of guilt.  I find the record facility helpful for a…

Do you remember going to the cinema and watching the B movie, or perhaps buying a 4rpm record with a B side song? Sometimes there was a hidden gem amongst these B movies or songs. They were a vehicle for up and coming actors and singers. You got two for the price of one –…

As a little lad growing up in a village in West Yorkshire, you could roughly divide religious people into four categories, Church folk, chapel folk, Roman Catholics and “not religious at all” The vast majority of people would class themselves as “CofE” if they had to align themselves with a denomination of any kind when…

Recently I’ve had cause to travel to and from Cambridge on quite a few occasions. I live in Felixstowe and my husband has been a patient in Royal Papworth. Most days the journey to and from the hospital was reasonable, if perhaps a bit slow on the way home. The one thing all the driving has…

Born in unhygienic conditions, even by the standards of Israel during the Roman Empire, in an unfamiliar region surrounded by strangers, in appearance just an ordinary baby boy, the salvation of the human race centred on Jesus. The prophet Isaiah gave four descriptions of the Messiah who would come, who we now recognise as Jesus:…