‘The people walking in darkness have seen a great light…. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.’ We live in dark and anxious times.  Fears for health, for loved ones, for prosperity, for mental wellbeing are all prevalent in hearts and minds this Christmas.  We are not alone in … Read more

Our best wedding present was in many ways the most unlikely.  Like most couples we’d received a lot of wonderful gifts to start a new home.  Shortly after we’d arrived back from honeymoon we received one final gift, which came in an unmarked brown cardboard box, wrapped up with brown parcel tape.   For those of … Read more

In February each year, the charity Open Doors publishes its World Watch List.  This constitutes the 50 countries where it is most dangerous to be a Christian – places where it is not just frowned upon but actually illegal to convert or own a bible, and where persecution is commonplace.  Sadly, the list could be … Read more

On this day (21st December) in 2020, the two largest planets in the solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, aligned so closely to one another in the sky that they appeared to be fused into a single point of light. Although the trajectories of these planets come close to one another every twenty years or so, to … Read more