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When the idea was recently floated that all children should study mathematics until the age of eighteen, it felt for a moment that Britain had become a classroom of baying teenagers, asking a question I am already well used to as a maths teacher: “Why do we need to learn this?” The cynicism was quiteContinue reading “Why I Like Maths”

Again, the traveller’s foot plunged into the snow, and he lurched forwards, his weight swinging his other foot out of the snow. Before, his crutches had taken weight off his twisted feet, but now they anchored him more firmly into the thick, thick snow. 

Meditations upon Christmas and community Life, I have increasingly come to believe, is all about people; and that is because it is all about love. We were made to love, to give ourselves to others without undue attention to our own concerns. And in this sense the way of the cross, the cruciform life byContinue reading “The gospel home”

TO THE CHOIRMASTER: ACCORDING TO RUDOLPH THE RED NOSED REINDEER. A PSALM OF THE THIRD DISCOURSEMAN. Jesus, the Word become flesh Through him the world was made And in the incarnation The creator God’s displayed In him was light and life That shines in the darkest place Darkness could not supress it He came toContinue reading “Jesus, the Word become flesh”

At the messy, irritating ends of the human span, our society has put life under threat. Progressives in Britain are desperately trying to follow our Canadian cousins in killing the disabled, the old, the poor and the lonely under the title of euthanasia. Already, we kill myriad unborn babies when they get in the wayContinue reading “Three Qualities of Life”

Throughout my first year at university, I struggled to go to bed on time. I would work late and when I returned to my room I would spend hours on YouTube and Facebook and the like, before finally closing the screen, tired and distracted, at two o’clock in the morning. It fed into a miserableContinue reading “How to Get a Good Night’s Sleep”

The Third Discourseman Once again, a bold title. The father I am talking about is not God the Father (whose love is almost certainly more surprising than you think), but the love of the father in Luke 15 (which I suggest you read now, and then have open in front of you if you wantContinue reading “The love of the father in ‘The Prodigal Son’ is less surprising than you think”

In this article, I write about suicide and abortion. I have tried to write both clearly and carefully on a difficult and important topic, but it is possible that my words may still cause hurt to some readers.  Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. – Luke chapter 12 verse 7 WithContinue reading “Unnumbered Souls are Dying“

This is a season of saying goodbye. In a few weeks a good friend moves back to Australia, where he is from. Even with modern communication possibilities, it’s a challenge keeping in touch with folk in Sydney, with the near day-long time difference. Another close friend – a Discourseman no less! – has upped sticksContinue reading “Thou who changest not”