‘You’ve got to be in it to win it!’

‘Aim high!’

‘No pain no gain!’

I have increasingly had an uneasiness about sporting maxims being applied to life. Sport is easy (actually, it is not; it is complex and few …

I think another reason why the judgement in this case saddened me is that it effectively stops any fundamental reconsideration of how Methodist Ministers are invited to stay in one place or how they are moved round the country. I …

Over the weekend, I was on a wilderness retreat on Scarba, an island off the West Coast of Scotland. I may say something more about this, but not yet; some things are better reflected on for a while before (…

I need some lifting, some inspiration. An old minister once said to me ‘Easter is hell’…then stopped and smiled as he realised that it is not hell.

I like Holy Week: it is one of the times I can stop …

The next time someone posts some trite cliche on facebook/twitter; usually, but not exclusively from someone rich and American, I shall scream (in a very British, passive aggressive way). In fact you have my permission to write ‘this …