Scrolling through twitter a couple of days ago, I came across this tweet ‘What would you tell your 18 year-old self?’ I suppose it very...

Book cover for 'In Such Times: Reflections on Living with Fear' by Lorraine Cavanagh

With all that’s going on in the world right now, the things which we fear in regard to war and disease especially, but also the small...

Our candle-lit carol service, last night, was in every way conducive to the contemplation of God. The church wasn’t even freezing cold....

I bought a copy of The Big Issue yesterday, the first in a long time. I was a bit shocked at the increase in price. Then came a mixture...

I have just come from a country where the commercial machinery of Christmas seems to be already operating at full capacity, in a remote...

‘Those resisting responsibility will hear blame’ writes one of the respondents to my last post. They may, but whether they hear it or...

At the end of yesterday’s edition of Radio 4’s ‘Woman’s Hour’, Emma Barnett has her guests, John Humphries and Jon Snow, cornered like...

I had one of those moments, yesterday, when life could have taken a radical turn for the worse, or even ended altogether. In fact, it was...

It suits the powerful not to know what people’s lives are really like, so they use all means available to them to make the people they...