God's love, Garry reminded us, goes much further than our love. We may not fully understand why He created us with free will; we certainly do not understand how He can use even evil, pain and suffering for good (as John Dickson remarks, 'But here we arrive at the...

Many people struggle with the idea of God and His love, simply imagining God to be a 'bigger version' of humans and His love to be a little bit bigger than ours. The truth is that we are made in God's image (not the other way round!) and His love is vastly different...

It's very easy in life to get distracted. We are seeing this all the time at the moment with our first grandchild who has just learned to crawl and who is desperate to learn to walk. She is, as a consequence, having to cope with falling down on a regular basis, and...