Helping my son in Year 10 with his Science homework can be a bit of a brain strain for an ageing parent! But he recently pointed something out to me I thought was quite beautiful. It has to do with the way our skin protects us from the dangerous radiation of the sun.
The pigment […]

One of the hardest sins to defeat is pride. One of the hardest virtues to acquire is humility. Yet humility is an essential virtue, for without it, all that we do is worthless.
The devil’s first sin is said to have been pride:
Isaiah 14:12 “How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer , […]

Sometimes things get lost in the translation. For example, below are a few of the commonest phrases used in the Arabic language, translated literally into English. See if you can guess their original meaning…
“A Jasmine dawn”
“Every year and you are kind”
“From under to under”
When we read the Bible in a translated language (like English), a […]