As we continued our Bible studies on ‘the end of the world as we know it’, we looked at the start of Revelation 1, the introduction to possibly the most misunderstood book in the Bible. A ‘revelation’ (or ‘apocalypse’) simply means an unveiling, and in this book, a...

Yesterday a young girl asked me if there was a phoenix at Phoenix Park - an excellent question which made me realise how much I take for granted and how much I need to teach the younger generation about our local history. The phoenix is an immortal bird associated...

Yesterday I attended a community event at Monk Bretton Priory known as 'Medieval Mayhem'. A combination of historical entertainment and educational information was present, with people showing us about making arrows, the use of archery in medieval warfare and medieval...