Repentance is the start of our journey, but it is just the beginning. John the Baptist, who came to prepare the way for Jesus, urged people to live out their repentance (Matthew 3:1-11): ‘produce fruit in keeping with repentance.’ It isn’t enough merely to have a head...

Today, Ash Wednesday, is the first day of Lent, and as we journey through Lent, we are reading from Sally Welch's book 'Sharing The Easter story,' which looks at a different Bible passage each day. This week's theme is ‘Repenting,’ and today's reading comes from 2...

When I was at school, I loved learning new words; two of my favourites were 'onomatopoeia' (which refers to the sounds of words being like what they describe such as 'sizzle' or 'buzz') and 'oxymoron' (a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear...