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Last week I was talking to the Plymouth Argyle under 18s coach Darren Way. He was talking about his journey to becoming a professional footballer – back in the day – and how different it is now. In those days he was signed by Norwich aged 14 and would take a bus up to London, […]

January: the month of diets, gyms filled to capacity, joggers and ex-smokers. All of which are a good thing, don’t get me wrong. What people are doing is using the first of January as a fresh start. Another attempt to break bad habits and begin new ones. It’s a good use of a day in […]

As the calendar flicked from 2019 to a brand new year and new decade, you probably had high hopes and great plans for 2020. Perhaps you had your wedding coming up or a big birthday party to celebrate, possibly a holiday of a lifetime. Whatever it looked like for you, 2020 did not go according […]

C. S. Lewis said: ‘Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.’ I want to say a few words about courage. And to do so I will be drawing upon the deep theological work that many will […]

What a massively challenging year we’ve all experienced. Life changing health and economic issues created through the Coronavirus Pandemic have, in the main, adversely impacted on all of us. We may be on information overload, but it would be fair to say that one of the only positive aspects of these challenging times has been […]

We are going through another tough set of circumstances which all of us must endure to some degree or another within this new lockdown due to Coronavirus. The tension between health and the economy seems to be a reality where, as a nation, we are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Without a […]

Do you like maps? Are you one of those types who likes to sit down and study them? And how is your geography – your sense of where places are in relation to each other? My daughter was doing a project on the 20th Century and asked me what important things happened in the noughties. […]

To be vulnerable I have really struggled this month with the Cross Rhythms article because it is not always easy in times of real difficulties to be genuinely optimistic. I have had the privilege for almost 40 years of sharing, on radio and television, what I believe is the ‘Greatest Story Ever Told’. This story […]

Here’s a question for you: do your convictions match your commitments? We all have convictions – things we hold to be right – what matters to us, the stuff we hold most dear. Our values if you like – the way we would like the world (our world) to be. But so often we find […]