5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1163+ words) Year after year, we hear that the UK is getting warmer. This summer alone brought successive heatwaves and a prolonged dry spell, while the forecast for autumn is wet. Moments like these have a way of reminding us of something…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (1691+ words) When we talk about Jesus’ early life, Mary usually takes centre stage and rightly so. But standing quietly beside her is Joseph: a man with no recorded quotes, no spotlight moments, and yet a calling so weighty it’s almost hard…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (554+ words) This is the opening thought in the Haftorah reading for the last Shabbat in the month of Elul, before Rosh Hashanah, which takes place on the 1st of Tishri. It appears in Isaiah 55:6-56:8, the final Haftorah of Comfort. It is believed…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (624+ words) The Culture Resurrection Index (CRI), commissioned by Virginia pastor and leadership coach Jared Fabac, surveyed 1,000 pastors about some of the challenges they face in church leadership. It found that more than four in five (82%) respondents had thought about ending their…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (1111+ words) I am old enough to remember the days when there was a choice between three television channels, BBC 1, BBC 2 and the local ITV company (which in my case was the late lamented Southern Television) and when if you wanted to…...