One of today’s “interesting” Facebook postings referred to an eight minute video clip which had the intriguing title: “Three things you really should know about mainstream Islam”. Continue reading →

My own journey as a community activist has been well documented in my writings, available on this website. Continue reading →

According to Wikipedia: “On the night of 14–15 April 2014, 276 female students were kidnapped from the Government Secondary School in the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria. Responsibility for the Islamist kidnappings was claimed by Boko Haram, an Islamic Jihadist and terrorist organization based in northeast Nigeria. As of 29 June, more than 200 students were still missing. Boko Haram has said that it wants to sell the girls. The Nigerian government has been heavily criticised for failing to protect the population and end Boko Haram terrorist actions”. Continue reading →

Waking up earlier than planned with a touch of insomnia and a reoccurrence of my gout, I found myself doing something I haven’t done before – watching almost in its entirety BBC’s breakfast show while ironing anything I could find. Continue reading →

In an earlier post, I reflected on a game I have loved and followed since I was a boy – cricket. Continue reading →

According to Wikipedia “Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginative content such as futuristic settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life”. Continue reading →

It is strange how different things that seem unrelated often come together around the same time and get us thinking about something or other, quite specific, often profound. Continue reading →

“Multiculturalism is the cultural diversity of communities within a given society and the policies that promote this diversity”. Continue reading →

One of the parables of Jesus that has particularly struck me over the years is one that may be less well known and it is to do with the story of the Unprofitable (ordinary) Servant (Luke 17:7-10). Continue reading →

It was back in March when we finished the Church Winter Night Shelters (CWNS) for the year. Continue reading →