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Let me explain why I don’t agree with Halloween: First, Halloween deceives us about evil. It creates a cartoon vision of evil as trivial, harmless fun that no one could possibly...

I sense that many people are finding these discouraging and tiring times. In part it’s ‘post-Covid’ but there’s more. If you had to describe our culture in the eloquent language...

Dear Friend He will be the sure foundation for your times, a rich store of salvation and wisdom and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is the key to this...

This year Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, February 22nd, six and a half weeks before Easter, and provides a forty-day period for reflection, prayer and abstinence (Sundays are excluded), in imitation...

Greetings, What a journey Heroes of the Faith has been for me, and I hope for you too. The articles began in 2020, during the first Covid lockdown, with the great reformer...

C.S. Lewis’s classic The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is set during World War II. Four children pass through a wardrobe into the world of Narnia, a land frozen in winter...

Billy Graham was a man who towered over twentieth-century Christianity and, if I may say so, I had the wonderful privilege of meeting. Billy, as he liked to be called,...

This film’s portrayal of 1990s American student life has that really important factor of sticking in your mind once you have watched it. Set at Harvard University, the story centres...

Christmas raises all sorts of issues to do with our lives, our families and our faith. Many of these issues are touched on by films. The issue of community is...

Sixty years ago Dr Seuss wrote a little children’s book, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, as a protest on the commercialism that he thought was destroying Christmas. It’s become astonishingly famous...

Home Alone is about how 8-year-old Kevin (brilliantly played by Macaulay Culkin) gets left behind when his rather dysfunctional family leaves for a Christmas vacation in France. And if being left...

The plot of Christmas Vacation is that Clark Griswold (played by Chevy Chase) decides that this year his family is going to have ‘the most fun-filled old-fashioned family Christmas ever’. He becomes...