The birth of my granddaughter on Christmas Eve has made me ponder new birth in new ways. Having given birth to my own son by Caesarean section because he was in a breech position, I have no personal experience of labour whatsoever, but am assured by all other mothers...

It has been a very exciting Christmas period in our church, with the birth of a baby on Christmas Eve and the announcement of an engagement on Christmas Day! I love hearing about proposals of marriage, though it was nerve-wracking to be 'in' on my son's proposal,...

When learning a language, it's often the little words that cause problems: prepositions, words that goes with a noun or pronoun and express a relationship to another word of element in the clause. They’re not difficult to learn in themselves, but the fact is that it’s...