Working as I do, in international development, in a global role, it means I’ve visited many nations on my work travels. About 12 years ago, one of those…
This is February’s ‘thought for the month’. (You can read January’s ‘thought for the month’ here, including an explanation about why I’m interspersing these thoughts, with my stories,…
About a month before Christmas, during the daily early evening national news programme, BBC television showed some profoundly moving film footage from Burnley, a market town in North…
Earlier this year, some friends of mine were putting final preparations in place to move their family from the UK to Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)…
It is late November, early on a Sunday morning, and I have woken to find thick fog blanketing the area where I live. We are in the midst…
This week has seen the passing of a little known anniversary. It was on 22 November 1873, when the French passenger ship, the Ville du Havre, sank in…
It’s thanks to a friend on social media that I have stumbled upon this story – because she knows Johanna, the young woman to whom it belongs. My…
I love discovering the stories behind my favourite worship songs. So I was delighted to stumble across the story of how Bethel Music’s ‘Goodness of God’ came to…
The UK claims to be a secular nation, but I have written elsewhere on this blog about how lockdown life has seen a surge in people praying. What’s…
I have written previously about the recent devastating explosion at the port in Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon, and the story of one Greek Orthodox Priest’s experience…