How are you going to answer the Religion Question in the Census 2016? Brandon smiled at me again.  He was frustrated and I admit, so was I. “Okay,” I said, “So you’re saying that I’m wrong for telling other people that they’re wrong?”  “Yes!” he said. “That’s right!”  “But hang on,” I said, “Brandon, you […]

Jesus’s command is this, ‘Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another’. Who can argue with love?  So deeply is the goodness and rightness of love built into our psyche and nature that it’s like North on a compass.  We know if we want to travel in the right […]

Alice has a 25-year-old son who recently moved out of home to get married. He’s super busy with work. He’s on social media a lot too. His mum knows because she can see how active he is on Facebook. But when she sends him messages he rarely responds. He says he’s too busy. Peter only […]

It was Wilson A. Bentley who said he’d “never seen two snowflakes alike”. And people trusted the Vermont farmer because he was a pioneer in photographing snowflakes in the early twentieth century. But Bentley only photographed a little more than 5000. Then in 1988, while looking under a microscope at high altitude, Nancy Knight, a […]

Just when you thought everything under the sun had finally been investigated, psychologists Angela M. Legg and Kate Sweeny from the University of California have gone and examined the question of whether people prefer to receive good news or bad news first. Not surprisingly, in their 2013 study, they found that people prefer to get […]

In Northern Iraq, under ISIS rule, it’s a crime to be a Christian.  Followers of Jesus are forced to convert to Islam, pay an unaffordable tax or face death. Thousands have fled their homes.  In Vietnam, Christians are persecuted by the Communist government. Whilst religious freedom is legally permitted, meetings are closely monitored, publications are […]

Imagine if everything… every gust of wind, every raindrop – each new season… Imagine if every new thing we received in life came gift-wrapped with sticky tape and paper. Red faced babies in delivery wards … falling autumn leaves… home dinners served hot with the wrapping paper, wet and translucent and sliding off the gravy… […]