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Last Monday (26 January), an important vote took place in the House of Commons, regarding the future of unconventional oil and gas extraction - otherwise known as fracking ( Read more... )

After the sky had fallen ( Read more... )

So, I used to go to this Church. Above the door, the one which everyone had to go through to exit the building, it had this big sign, painted in red: 'You Are Now Entering The Mission Field'. I used to think that was cool, in a kooky kind of way ( Read more... )

When did you last speak to your nextdoor neighbour? If you answered last week, last month, or even last year, you are not alone. In a Mori survey almost a quarter of people questioned had not spoken to their neighbour for at least a week. Some 40 per cent said they believed there would be no such thing as community in the future. The Mori survey ( Read more... )

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another; I have my mission - I may never know it in this life but I shall be told it in the next. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good; I shall do His work. I ( Read more... )

The newspapers were full of images of Syrian refugees this week. One in particular stood out - an image of a two-year-old boy, his tongue swollen by malnourishment, face emaciated through lack of food, his tiny form swaddled in a knitted cap and scarf that only seemed to emphasise his smallness ( Read more... )

The British philosopher Edmund Burke once said: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing ( Read more... )