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Regular readers of this blog will know I am often confused about the apparent contradictions between news stories. Here is another one....

UK Headlines over the last couple of days have been dominated by the story of Isla Bryson, a Scottish person identifying as a...

Today is Friday the 13th, counted by some as the unluckiest day of the year. These superstitious types may be glad to get this day out of...

Recent headlines in the UK have been dominated by strike action across multiple sectors. Transport workers, barristers, postal workers,...

One of this week’s major news stories in the UK has been the interaction between Lady Susan Hussey – an 83-year-old long-standing member...

Please note – this post is deliberately provocative – please read to the end before getting too annoyed with anything I say in it. In a...

This week I joined Esther Higham on her Inspirational Breakfast show on Premier Radio for the ‘news review’ segment. As first time...

I’ve had a quiet week. All but one of my staff colleagues in Living Leadership were on annual leave and I needed to recover from an...

In just one week four stories relating to LGBTQIA issues have been in the new headlines: Managers of an Australian rugby team who...

Coronavirus! War in Europe! Cost of living crisis! Heatwaves and climate change! Monkeypox! It seems that the headlines are never free...

Two changes to marriage law in the UK have been discussed in the media during this past week. One concerns when marriages can start, the...

This Sunday I will be preaching in Ballymena on Mark 13. That chapter was assigned to me as part of a series the church I am visiting is...

A simple combination of colours caught my eye in multiple places today. I opened my phone to find that the Microsoft Launcher wallpaper...

The nations are raging. I'm sure, like me, you've been distressed to see on your TV or mobile screen the scenes of conflict from...

Anyone fed up with masks? As gospel people we should recognise the dangers of masks of both the physical and the psychological types. We...

One week on from the momentous vote and a single word captures the mood of the nation: ‘uncertainty’. Uncertainty about future...

I was shocked and disturbed to read last week an article on the BBC News website entitled, ‘Pornography addiction worry’ for tenth of 12...

I have been watching the Ashers ‘equality’ story unfolding for some time, but only now have I decided to go public with my views on this...

Where does parental pride slip over into real pride (you know, the really bad ‘deadly sin’ kind)? I sat in my son’s BB (Boys’ Brigade)...