One Sunday morning, an elderly man entered a church just before the service was about to start. Although his clothes were spotless, they were very worn and tattered. In his hand, he carried a battered old hat and an equally worn Bible. The church he entered was located in a very affluent and exclusive part of the city. It was…
At the time of writing this sermon, the US President and his Russian counterpart were about to meet in Alaska to discuss the ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine. The stated aim of the American president was to stop the bloodshed and diplomatically resolve the war’s causes rather than through military force. On the radio station I have on in the…
A dying man entrusted each of his closest friends – a lawyer, doctor, and priest – with an envelope containing £25,000 to be placed in his coffin. A week later, after the man’s death, his friends each put an envelope into the coffin. Several months later, the priest confesses that he only included £10,000 and sent the rest to a…
Some of you might remember the Fukushima nuclear disaster 14 years ago. The magnitude-9 earthquake off Japan’s east coast, considered one of the strongest ever recorded, triggered a massive 10-metre-high tsunami that in some areas travelled up to 6 miles inland. These natural events caused widespread destruction of infrastructure, businesses and homes. Nearly 20,000 lives were lost, and many more…
A son of two Irish immigrants, a firefighter and a nurse, Mike Lynch’s story is an almost perfect modern version of the’ rags to riches” tale. His first job was as a cleaner in the same hospital where his mother worked. Talented, intense, and driven, he sailed through his classes and went on to Cambridge, where he soon started his…