Those of us of a certain age remember a phrase from the 'Blue Peter' programme with fondness: 'Here's one I prepared earlier!' When demonstrating craft or baking activities, rather than being forced to wait for things to stick or cook, presenters produced a version...

This week I had the privilege of telling the story of Basil The Branch at Goldthorpe Primary School. Basil the Branch is part of the vine... but makes a song and dance about growing grapes, believing that fruitfulness is all about self-effort... You can watch part of...

We talk about the 'seven-year itch' in a marriage, a period when doubt, disillusionment and decay can take hold of us and wreck our happiness. Yet in the Bible, we read of the opposite: seven-year-blessing. In Deut 15:1-11 we read how debts were to be cancelled in the...