Are You Connected?
There’s no doubting the power of social networks. Recently I bought something on Amazon, and was surprised by the website’s invitation to me to share news of my purchase with […]
Author Archives: Madi Simpson
What Makes a Movie Christian?
What makes a piece of art or music or cinematography ‘Christian’? Sometimes the ‘Christian’ label is slapped onto all sorts of things, from cookies to car insurance, simply because the […]
Why Wait?
One Sunday I was waiting for the bus to get to church, when I overheard two men talking at the bus stop: Man 1: “Which bus are we waiting for?” […]
More wine, more glory
The story of the wedding at Cana in John 2, the account of Jesus turning water into wine, is one of the best known episodes in the New Testament, if […]
An Insult to Aspire to
When was the last time someone threw an insult at you? Was it deserved? Not a possibility one would wish to encourage! How about putting the shoe on the other […]
Mother Mary
When I was pregnant with my first child, I was living in Vancouver and managed somehow to get myself around that big city on a bicycle until I reached 36 […]
When the Living’s Uneasy
A friend of mine, married with two children, once confessed that he felt a bit guilty about buying a three bedroom house in a leafy, desirable London suburb, having done […]
The X-Factor: Don’t have it, don’t need it
Have you got the X-Factor? Plenty of people believe they do, lining up in their thousands to audition, but only one can win. Sony Records won’t be disappointed to hear […]
Rules of Life
Usain Bolt was recently disqualified from the Men’s 100m final at the World Athletics Championships in South Korea. His crime? One false start. Previously, athletes had been allowed a single […]
Riots and Resistance
There’s been a lot of talk in the international news of an ‘Arab Spring,’ a term encapsulating the unrest and protest by groups of people in the Middle East, and […]
Wondering Fair 