A bag of nerves Sitting in the concert hall of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music, I was little more than a bag of nerves. My younger son, Jamie, was …

Christianity is practical Above all else, Christianity is practical. It works. It is not some pipe dream, designed to dull the senses and help make life bearable. Rather, it is …

The Vital Element Called ‘Morale’ In the blood sweat and violence of warfare it is not always the larger army that wins. Nor the better equipped. There is that difficult …

What Do You Do When There’s Nothing You Can Do? What do you do when there is nothing you can do? And who do you turn to when your friends …

God is in charge. Leaders may boast and swagger. Scientists may fret and worry. Sociologists may point to the end of civilisation as we know it. But the fact remains: …

‘If it sounds too good to be true, it generally is too good to be true,’ said Deborah Meaden wisely on the popular TV show Dragon’s Den. And as a …

In Britain, the Church is sometimes seen as a bunch of negative grumblers, who enjoy complaining and are anti everything –perhaps with some justification. But before we try too hard …