It is football World Cup time. It is also State of Origin time. Together, these two great sporting contests confront me with a surprisingly difficult question: who am I supposed to support?

Over the long weekend I read Matt Haig’s The Midnight Library. Published in 2020, it became a worldwide bestseller and has sold more than ten million copies. Its heroine, Nora Seed, reaches a point where she no longer wants to live. Instead of dying, she enters a mysterious library in which every book contains a different life she might have lived had she made other choices...

Last Wednesday was a special day for me. From beginning to end, its themes were prayer and community.

This Sunday is Trinity Sunday, the day in the church calendar when we especially remember that God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Which is wonderful. And difficult...

This Sunday, some of us will be running through the streets of Lindfield in the local fun run. I am looking forward to it, though my own ambitions are modest: finish upright, smile occasionally, and avoid needing pastoral care at the end...

This week I went to the movies and saw The Devil Wears Prada 2. So, as a change from my usual note, I want to be a little light-hearted and reflect on the film from a Christian standpoint, hopefully without giving away the plot...

Earlier this week, King Charles III gave a landmark speech to a joint meeting of the United States Congress in Washington. It was a striking moment: the British monarch addressing American lawmakers 250 years after America’s declaration of independence.