John 10-1-19According to tradition those of us who have trouble getting to sleep should try the well-known method, counting sheep. Apparently the idea comes from the practice of northern English shepherds and their use of an ancient numbering system....

22 April 2007 - St George's Chapel

'Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me!' Not true. And we know from personal experience that this is not true. And knowing that it is not true is no new discovery. Gorgias writing in the fifth century B.C. also knew that ...

03 April 2007 - St George's Chapel

Romans 7.21 - 8.4Alexander McCall Smith is well known for his No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency novels but he has also written a delightful trilogy with the central character Professor Dr von Igelfeld. The very first of these stories is printed under th...

25 March 2007 - St George's Chapel

Genesis 37-3 - 4- 12 - end.The bestseller lists are now something of a commonplace.-1- It was not, however, always the case. It was really only at the beginning of the last century that such lists had any kind of popularity. The first really big sell...

18 March 2007 - St George's Chapel

Acts 16- 11- 15Children in Ireland go to school to learn all the usual subjects, concentrating, of course, on the three Rs, 'reading, writing and arithmetic'. But they have the added delight of learning their national language, Irish. They begin that...

14 January 2007 - St George's Chapel