Blood is vital for life. In the UK and several other countries, volunteers donate their blood to blood banks which then send it to hospitals or researchers who use it to try and save the lives of patients. Those donating give up just one pint of blood (or sometimes plasma from their blood) but will never know or find out...

The British celebrity astrologist, Mystic Meg, passed away recently aged 80. A 2021 article in The Independent claimed that more than half of Britons asked admitted to making financial decisions based on their horoscope, with a poll of 2,000 adults resulting in more than a third admitting to making life choices based on the ‘advice’ of horoscopes. However, while the...

There are times when you’re given a subject to speak on and wonder how on earth that can be effectively communicated! Over the centuries since Jesus’ ‘Sermon on the Mount’, many have tried to explain what ‘The Beatitudes’ (Matthew 5) part of the sermon means. At face value, the passage tells people that all the different hardships of life are...

This last Wednesday was 1st March, a date when many in Wales and elsewhere will have celebrated St. David’s Day and also, according to the Meteorological Calendar, as the first day of Spring. Spring is a season of new beginnings and transformations: snowdrops, daffodils, bluebells and other seeds take root and flower as vegetation begins to grow and hibernating animals...