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…
I have written elsewhere on this blog about the powerful worship song, which Jonathan and Melissa Helser wrote, during the battle for the life of a two-year-old American…
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…
I’ve recently been re-reading the autobiographical book, The Hiding Place, by the late Dutch Christian, Corrie Ten Boom. The book tells the story of how she and her family enabled…
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…
I recently stumbled upon the work of the talented film maker, Tom Harmer. He has a gift for telling stories, and the one I want to share here…
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…
It is late in the summer of 2019 and I’m on vacation in a beautiful part of Italy. My stay has been organised by a Christian holiday company,…