The importance of a good leader must never be understated. I don’t really know much about football but I tentatively mention problems that clubs like Manchester United have had since…
Here we are at the Easter Vigil, but what is a vigil? When we keep vigil, we watch for something. The wonderful antiphon for the Nunc Dimittis, the Song of…
We can sometimes mishear songs and this changes their meaning, occasionally rather comically. Part of Handel’s Messiah that might be sung at this time of year has a chorus where…
“The wounded surgeon” is a fantastic image used to describe our Saviour on this day by the twentieth century poet T S Eliot. “The wounded surgeon.” He goes on, “Beneath…
There’s been a great revival of late in family history, people rummaging through history records of births and marriages and deaths and seeing who their relations and ancestors were. I…