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Two radio programmes in the past week have got me thinking about the power of storytelling. The first was Desert Island Discs featuring...

The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris was notable for a variety of reasons. It was an imaginative spectacle that used Paris...

Preachers, politicians and stand-up comedians still speak to crowds. President Zelensky of Ukraine has combined the last of these two in...

The election campaign has underlined how bad politicians are at answering questions. It seems impossible to get a straight answer for a...

The United Kingdom is in the midst of both a general election and another visit by England and Scotland to the Euros. England, one of the...

The Dead Preachers Society is one of the several areas of interest that occupy me. We have held a conference on preaching past, present...

Last weekend I was in Kehl in Germany (just over the Rhine from Strasbourg in France) speaking at a preaching conference for Ukrainians...

I went for a walk with a friend yesterday. It was the perfect day for doing the nine-mile circular walk around Thorney Island. It was a...

There has been no blog for the past three weeks because I have been on holiday with my wife in Australia for three weeks. It was...

It was good to have the opportunity to preach on the Sunday after Easter. In some churches the Easter season can be over and done with by...

Not sure if you remember what famous Christmas movie the words “Wow! What a hole!” come from? It is a line that always makes me laugh. I...

Recently I attended an event organised by Sussex Gospel Partnership where the speaker Tim Ward spoke about preaching with sensitivity to...