Pools in the Desert

A few days ago we had a bank holiday in England, essentially because it was the last Monday in May. However, in the calendars of many...

Have you ever watched or even played in a football, hockey, rugby, netball or any other kind of match involving teams, when a substitute...

Have you ever wondered why the Church doesn't have a feast day for Judas Iscariot? Probably not. He messed up big time and then killed...

We can be so quick to judge. Which is more valuable - a handful of coins or a handful of notes? The notes have a higher monetary value,...

When you start marketing a product, you're looking for the early adopters. They want to try out new things, get ahead of the game, are...

Yohanan Marcus was a young man, possibly of mixed Jewish and Roman parentage, living in Jerusalem early in the first century. In 33 AD...

There are two people called Joseph who have important roles in the Bible. The first is the son of the patriarch Jacob and his amazing...

The Church of England commemorates Timothy on the same day as another of Paul's co-workers, Titus. Now, while Timothy is reasonably well...

We can easily think of Paul as the great apostle to the Gentiles, and of course he was. Yet, there were others; the gospel reached Rome...

On 27th January each year, the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America celebrate the life of Phoebe. "Who?" I...

Wenceslas, Duke of Bohemia in the early 10th century, according to the well-known carol looked out across the snowy landscape on the...