This past year has frequently felt like I’m speeding along a pair of parallel train tracks, with battles on one track and blessings on the other.I’ve been forced…
I love the idea of a fresh start, a clean slate, a blank page. I love looking back at my journals to spot the themes that are lying…
I love it when I stumble across a ‘light through the cracks’ story in the lives of my friends – and this one is no exception.It comes from…
It’s not every week that I make a grown man start to cry. Especially not a British one, who’s basically a ‘familiar stranger’. But it just so happens…
At the end of each month this year, I am writing a ‘thought for the month’. This one is October’s. You will find the others here.***The late Helen Keller…
My heart feels heavy at the moment: I am praying for two friends who were recently diagnosed with cancer, and a young toddler who has been battling a…
Nearly three decades ago, a Scottish anaesthetist is volunteering, with Mercy Ships, in the West African country of Sierra Leone. He specialises in obstetric anaesthetics – the provision…
We are living in uncertain times, unprecedented upheaval, uncharted territory. The Coronavirus pandemic needs no introduction – nor the COVID-19 disease that the virus produces. Our media and…
It’s thanks to a friend from work that I have stumbled upon this story, because my friend knows Jessie, the young woman at the heart of it. She…
Many of us have been following the news from Australia with horror and heartache in recent months. Severe prolonged drought has combined with record-breaking temperatures to fuel huge…