It's always good to have things to celebrate (especially these days!), so it was a privilege to welcome the Mayor of Barnsley to the Railway Embankment this week to officially open the art mural there. It was good to welcome local councillors to the site and for those...

When I was at university, I learned a lot about 17th century French literature, particularly the plays of Racine and Corneille. My tutor was an expert on that period, and it was a culture shock for a 20th century teenager. Concepts such as honour and virtue featured...

To be a follower of Jesus is to become a disciple, a learner, an apprentice to a master craftsman. The idea of apprenticheship, where a student learns by watching and copying one with more experience in a skill, has become less popular in recent years, but in the...