The ‘March of Progress’ is the name given to an illustration (also called ‘The Road to Homo Sapiens’) which presents 25 million years of human evolution. It was created for the Early Man volume of the Life Nature Library, published in 1965, and is supposed to show us...

Waiting is a topic which has long fascinated me, probably because I am so bad at it. A few years ago I wrote that 'waiting isn't a waste of time', but so often, it feels like it. I first encountered Ps 130 over thirty years ago, but I have found I am drawn back to it...

In Genesis 32:24-25 we read about Jacob and the angel of God wrestling: ‘So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip so that his hip was wrenched as he...