This week’s Border Watch piece was a reflection on a parenting video I’d watched the week before. The paper titled this ‘Actions Key To Forgiveness’. It’s such an inescapable part of parenting that you think more people would tell you about it: at some point or another most parents will find themselves locked in the …

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A little bit of Robert Farrar Capon to brighten the afternoon: the preacher as naughty child. I think good preachers should be like bad kids. They ought to be naughty enough to tiptoe up on dozing congregations, steal their bottles of religion pills…and flush them all down the drain. The church, by and large, has …

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