The one book, the one life Most people love a good story. The story of a person’s life of course holds a lot of interest. We can enjoy a good chat over coffee and hear how different life was during the War years. Then there is the cinema which can inspire as it draws our...
Christian Movements and Spiritual Fruit The more options the better. Right? Well, not really. When it comes to religion there are all sorts of options and many pitfalls. As to the Christian church we live in an age of multiple church movements. How can we distinguish between what is true from what is false? We...
Magazine Leader – January 2011 “Happy New Year!” How do you know whether this proves to be the case? Can you measure a nation’s happiness, or an individual’s wellbeing? Recent public debates have drawn attention to how measuring economic activity doesn’t deliver all that we need to know. After all, it’s argued, it doesn’t take...
Light in the darkness Who’d choose the dark winter nights over the light summer ones? If your idea of comfort is to sit in front of a fire sipping a hot drink, then I guess you’d go for the winter. If you prefer sitting reading in the garden or being active somewhere outdoors, then you’d probably opt...
19 A perfect ending What could be better? Two gold medals at the Commonwealth Games! Tom Daley’s second gold medal in the 10-metres platform diving in Delhi was hailed as one of the best displays of his fledgling career. As one paper reported: “the splash was minimal; the score was maximal.” It was a perfect...