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I am thirsty (John 19:28) The fifth saying is brief: ‘I am thirsty.’ At one level, this is no more than a desperate, agonised cry of suffering. We hear a...

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me (Matthew 27:46 and Mark 15:34) The fourth statement from the cross is both deep and terrible. Mark puts it in its...

Dear woman, here is your son... here is your mother (John 19:26-27) The Gospels tell us that Jesus’ mother and a number of the women who had followed him remained...

I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise (Luke 23:43) It is a universal feature of human societies that there are hierarchies. There are always...

Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing (Luke 23:34) There are many ways of thinking about Easter. One with a long tradition is to consider...

At the heart of April Fools’ Day is misplaced trust: we believe some news story or a friend’s tale and so are surprised when what we believed to be true...

To me Mothering Sunday increasingly seems to focus on mothers in a way that is, as far as cards go, soft and sentimental. There’s nothing wrong with this but there...

Part of my role as an evangelist is to keep an eye on the world. After all, if you want to reach people, it’s helpful to know where to find...

Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, the start of the forty-day period that leads to Easter. Ash Wednesday takes its name from the way that, for over a thousand years, many believers...

Monday 17th February is Random Acts of Kindness Day. As the title implies, it’s a day to encourage us to show unexpected generosity to others. I’m all in favour of...

Doorways to great buildings are overlooked because visitors are eager to see what’s beyond them. Positioned at the start of Easter week, the account of how Jesus acquired an animal...

I’m told that there are at least a thousand ‘awareness days’ on the calendar every year which, given there are only 365 days, suggests a lot of competition. One cause...