"Life is full of light and shadow", the DavidCrowder*Band song 'Shadows' goes. It's full of ups and downs and twists and turns. Very rarely does it seem as though we're on a straight road. Life, it seems to me, is more like a rambling country lane than a dead straight...

I do apologise in advance for the randomness of this post. My Internet home page is set to Google and as you may know, they put pretty pictures on there of things of general interest. It's a bit like having an automatic calendar. Birthdays and anniversaries (see the...

People have very different attitudes to birthdays. Some love them. Some dread them. Some are indifferent to them. In a similar manner, people have very different attitudes to the birthday box at church, and this was very definitely demonstrated this last Sunday. We...