The 5Ws – questions beginning with W – are key words which help us in problem-solving and information-gathering and as a teacher, I often had to use such questions to focus pupils’ attention on essential facts. Who? What? When? Where? Why? are important questions...

The books of Psalms is my favourite book in the whole Bible; like Dietrich Bonhoeffer, I can say ‘I am reading the Psalms daily, as I have done for years. I know them and love them more than any other book in the Bible.’ I can’t remember when I first discovered the...

Genetics is a controversial area of science, particularly when it comes to manipulation of genes to cure diseases. The recent decision to allow a new technique preventing mitochondrial diseases by creating a “three-parent baby” — a child in which the vast majority of...