The Eucharist reminds us forcibly of God's great love for people (John 3:16, 1 John 3:1) It helps us to see people (including ourselves) 'not through the dirty lens of our own muddled feelings and not through the smudgy window of another's carping criticism, but in...

1 Samuel 31 and 2 Samuel 1 both describe the death of Saul and his sons in the battle with the Philistines. The author of the book has been showing us parallel action for some time, switching between Saul and his increasing fear and sense of doom, and David. We last...

I come from a family which valued academic knowledge and education. My mother and aunt were primary school teachers; my parents paid for me to go to a private school from the ages of eleven to eighteen. I was academically intelligent and won a place to Keble College,...