Steve Richards
Jul 5, 2019
Lost and found
‘Whenever we go into town as a family you’re always wandering off and getting lost.’ We are in a Cotswolds tearoom reminiscing about...
Steve Richards
May 3, 2019
The banquet
It is 25 years ago this month that I started contributing to this column. My aim has been, and remains, to engage readers not with...
Steve Richards
May 4, 2018
Lost and found
Do you remember the children’s comedy record ‘I’ve lost my Mummy’? The song tells the story of a little lad who finds himself lost in a...
Steve Richards
Oct 6, 2017
Ploughing and sowing good seed
Schools and churches have been celebrating the long-standing festival of harvest thanksgiving. It is good for people to gather together...
Steve Richards
Mar 3, 2017
Regeneration project
Shirley’s regeneration continues with the imminent demolishing of the PowerGen buildings. In defining the actual word ‘regeneration’, we...
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Apr 4, 2016
Grace for the needy
In his resignation letter, former Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has publicly questioned the sincerity of the government’s...
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Jan 1, 2016
Wise men from the East
Traditionally, this week will see many churches presenting sermons based around the account of the wise men from the east who travelled...
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Oct 2, 2015
The seed that falls on good soil
It is that time in the year when Jews celebrate the festival of ‘ingathering.’ This is a harvest celebration dating back thousands of...
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Sep 4, 2015
Neighbourly love
Some Christians living in Kent are travelling over to Calais in order to minister to the immediate needs of migrants in the camps there....