As any parent knows, getting a child to ‘say sorry’ (and mean it!) is a difficult task. The child often fails to see that what they have done (snatching a toy from someone else, pushing someone unceremoniously away) is wrong, and even if they acknowledge that they...

Repentance is the start of our journey, but it is just the beginning. John the Baptist, who came to prepare the way for Jesus, urged people to live out their repentance (Matthew 3:1-11): ‘produce fruit in keeping with repentance.’ It isn’t enough merely to have a head...

Today, Ash Wednesday, is the first day of Lent, and as we journey through Lent, we are reading from Sally Welch's book 'Sharing The Easter story,' which looks at a different Bible passage each day. This week's theme is ‘Repenting,’ and today's reading comes from 2...