Talking Point

I HAD A MIND to write on the theme of retreats, as I have just been on one. What is the purpose of going on a retreat; and may this be a religious one or […]

RECENTLY MY sister and I took our 95-year-old mum to see Tim Rice at The Hexagon. The show consisted of Tim Rice telling the story of his career, interspersed with some of his best-known and […]

SO MUCH IN our lives today is becoming extreme. Our climate has just given us one of the warmest and wettest Februaries ever. Keeping a roof over our heads has become incredibly expensive, with a […]

MY DAD, Jack Saynor, was a bomber pilot during World War II. He completed 38 operations with 10 Squadron during 1943-44, a remarkable number for a bomber crew at that time. He was shot down […]

WE CHRISTIANS tell a rather old story on 2 February as we celebrate the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple. This is the event recorded in St Luke’s gospel when Mary and Joseph fulfil Jewish […]

JAMES (JIM) IRWIN, one of the astronauts on the Apollo 15 mission to the Moon in 1971, was a believer who had a spiritual encounter with God while on the lunar surface. It was a […]

IN AN EARLY episode of Grange Hill, (a BBC children’s programme from the early 1980s), something that’s always stuck with me… Girl 1: “I can’t come to the party on Sunday, I’ve got to go […]