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A long row of black and white keys You’d think you could master with ease! But blood, sweat, and tears And practice for years Are needed before one can please! Yes, singers must be in no doubt Musicians don’t simply come out To support all we singers With those skilful fingers – If they did,...

Can you think of a politician who deserves to be called a saint?  If no one currently living politician comes to mind, never mind – there is always King Alfred of Wessex (871-99). This remarkable and best known of all the Anglo-Saxon rulers may have dozed off and let some cakes burn while a peasant...

Bible Stories Gone Even More Crazy! Fresh From the Word 2019 – the Bible for Change The Lion Storyteller Bible Addiction and Pastoral Care All Things Anglican – who we are and what we believe Anxious Times Bible Puzzles for Fun Taming the Beast Within – shedding the stereotypes of personality disorder Toxic People –...

Orson Welles’ famous radio adaptation of War of the Worlds by H G Wells was broadcast in the USA 80 years ago, on 30th Oct 1938. It was said to have caused nationwide outrage and panic as – in the tense political atmosphere just before the Second World War – listeners thought the events described...

Ever wonder what God does up there in heaven?  Some of us imagine God the Father resting on a great gold throne, surrounded by angels dressed in white, eternally playing on harps.  And beyond them are millions of people, standing about.  After all, as one hymn (Jerusalem, my happy home) puts it:  where ‘congregations ne’er...

The God of life with guarding hold you, The loving Christ with guarding fold you, The Holy Spirit, guarding, mould you, Each night of life to aid, enfold you Each day and night of life uphold you. From Poems of the Western Highlanders

A line in the Lord’s Prayer asks God to ‘Give us this day our daily bread’. When we say that line, we’re asking God to provide the basic things in life that keep us healthy and happy. It can start with the food we need to eat each day, but for lots of different reasons,...

Sir Walter Raleigh died 400 years ago, on 29th Oct 1618. The famous English adventurer, writer, poet and courtier was a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. The youngest of five sons in a devout Protestant family from Devon, he had faced persecution under Queen Mary. As a result, he developed a life-long hatred for Roman...

When you are hurt and in need, to whom do you go? If you are blessed, you will know someone who is full of kindness and sympathy, and to whom you can turn with your troubles. It seems that Joseph (Gen.40) in the Bible was like that.  He was in an Egyptian prison, his feet...

By Juliet David & Emiliano Migliardo, Lion Children’s Books, £6.99 Eight Bible stories are depicted in intense colour and comic, cartoony illustrations. There is a sentence or two explaining the scene at the top, and then details to spot, mistakes to find and questions to answer along the sides of the picture. Was there really...

You’re the Alpha and Omega The beginning and the end. The God in whom we place our trust And utterly depend. You’re the One who’s all forgiving And kind and just and true, So merciful and powerful – Who can compare with You? You are mighty and majestic Yet gentle as a dove, Delighting in...