The UK has just embarked on yet another general election. Once again, the airwaves are full of promises with political parties pledging to spend billions on education, healthcare, and housing. But in a world now dominated by ‘fake news’ we’re deeply cynical that once the election is over many of them will be forgotten. But […]

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On 6th June 1964 General Eisenhower returned to Omaha Beach in Normandy. Twenty years earlier 2,000 men had lost their lives on the same beach securing it for the Allied invasion on D-day. Eisenhower looked out at the holidaymakers swimming in the sea and enjoying the sunshine and commented, ‘It’s almost unreal to look at […]

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One of the loveliest things you notice about the life of Jesus, is how often he would stop a whole crowd of people to focus on just one person. Nearly always they were people marginalised by the majority because of some illness or sin – a woman who’d run up five marriages, a selfish tax-collector, […]

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Aside from the fact that it’s a commercially driven enterprise earning millions of pounds for big business, it strikes me that there’s something deeper going on in our culture’s ever-expanding celebration of Hallowe’en. The Bible nails it with this verse from John’s Gospel, ‘Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into […]

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Driving in Lahore is an experience not to be missed! The roads are crowded with cars, motorbikes, donkeys, tractors, tuk-tuks, trucks and buses, some of them roadworthy. Lines on roads and traffic lights offer suggestions about the rules of the road but the rule of thumb seems to be that if there’s a gap you […]

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On 12th October 2019 yet another milestone in human achievement was passed as Eliud Kipchoge became the first person in the world to run a marathon in under two hours. Before the event Kipchoge said that if successful his achievement would rank alongside that of being the first man on the moon, and there’s no doubt […]

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As with all the best stories it’s often the very moment when all hope seems to be lost when the clouds part and the sun breaks through once more. With the Brexit deadline approaching like a runaway train, it’s just possible that a conversation between two key leaders may have changed everything.  I’m reminded of […]

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A few weeks ago I injured my back lifting Jesus onto the cross. Clearly this wasn’t the real thing but a dramatized re-enactment. Somehow with just a director, a cast of sixteen and two days to rehearse we presented Mark’s Gospel in just 90 minutes. It was a deeply profound and moving experience. But I’m […]

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I’m ending the month of September by paying a speeding fine incurred while on holiday in France over the summer. Up until 6th May 2017 I could have left this particular ‘sin’ behind at the border and would never have known anything about it. But on that date EU rules changed allowing nations to access one […]

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This week Chinese social media influencer Lisa Li has been called out by her landlord for the contrast between her online life how she actually lives at home. With over a million followers Li has posted about her glamorous lifestyle with its glossy catalogue of foreign travel, wild parties and fine dining. But after several […]

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