Carolyn and I are almost at the end of our vacation which we both needed after the journey through Lent and the joys of Easter Sunday. The long flight, (22 hours) brought us first to Singapore for a few days then a further two and half hours in the air, and we arrived in Bangkok. […]

Lower taxes, cheaper gas prices, more investment in schools and education, better transport systems, higher pensions, stricter measures on crime, cleaner environment, more jobs….. We have heard it all before, haven’t we? The words trotted out by those running for elected office, whether President of the United States or some county, city, state or federal […]

As we read through the passage set out in our Lenten studies book this week, we encounter a familiar parable. Have you ever lent your car to someone? You know that anxious feeling when he or she drives off into city traffic with your baby? In the Gospel parable today, a “man going on a […]

Have you ever had one of those moments in which you ask yourself, “What on earth am I doing here? Why am I in this place at this time? It may be a work related situation where you think this is not what I thought my day might hold! Or you set off planning to […]

“Fake News! It’s all Fake News,” comes the reply to another barrage of questions by journalists eager for an answer to the story of the day. Whether ‘Fake News,’ as an answer, is simply being given in an attempt to deflect the media interrogation of a particular issue in the headlines, or it’s genuinely something […]