An allusion is a reference, typically brief, to a person, place, thing, event, or other literary work with which the reader is presumably familiar. As a literary device, allusion allows a writer to compress a great deal of meaning and significance into a word...

January in England is a long, dreary month. The excitement of December, with its Christmas celebrations and holiday period, twinkling lights, merry music and festive decorations, not to mention the tempting aromas of baking and cooking, give way to the hard slog of...

In our series looking at questions God asks us, we have seen that God does not ask questions out of ignorance as we do. Sometimes, He asks questions to challenge us, to make us question things which perhaps would otherwise have passed us by and to dig deeper into our...