When Europe take on America on the Albatros golf course at Le Golf National in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, southwest of Paris, at the end of this month (28-30 September), one thing will go largely unnoticed. Thousands of words will be spoken and written about the Ryder...

Just over a hundred years ago, the poet WH Davies wrote about the fact that we miss out in life if we miss out time to stop and look. His most famous poem begins: ‘What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.’ This summer, the current...

On Monday I watched a BBC Panorama documentary on the impact of poverty on life expectancy called Get Rich or Die Young (it’s available on BBC iplayer for a year). The statistics were shocking, they looked at the most dramatic area of the country in terms of life...

‘Let’s go out for a coffee!’ is a collective declaration of the coffee-drinking-leisure-hungry generation that we’re in. I’m a self-confessed coffee shop lover. It’s part of the culture of this generation. No longer do people invite a friend home for a cuppa, instead...

I don’t remember it well, but I do recall a neighbour when I was very young calling round to our house, knocking at the back door - which in itself is unheard of where I live now - and asking my mum for a cup of sugar, or a cup of something. I also recall people...

What's your purpose in life? Alisdair reminds us in a recent Fuelcast that we are a new creation and an ambassador of Christ.

Ok, so I know that having read that title some of you are already sharpening your doctrinal pitch-forks to administer some ‘correction-in-love’ to this soon to be skewered heretic… but hear me out first… please! I grew up in the evangelical Church in the U.K where,...

Monster? What's all that about then? Rev Brendan Bassett from Victoria Park Baptist Church explains how we're surrounded by them, but often don't realise it.  

Last week I tweeted this “The church needs to stop talking about justice or praying for justice and start acting justly”. To be honest I am not 100% I agree with it. The Big Church Day Out has been happening in the South and the North over the last few weeks. It has...

‘Thy Kingdom Come’ … Do you pray this one? Pete Greig (24-7 prayer) highlights Frederick Buecher’s words ‘go where your best prayers take you’. Along with a few thousand other people, I thanked God for the present Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, speaking at...