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Mustard seeds aren’t very big. You can see them, and pick them up; you can plant them and watch them grow; you can grind them up and add them on your food. They may not be the smallest seed known

Everyone knows what it’s like to get lost. We’ve all done it – you take a wrong turn at some point, you end up somewhere you aren’t meant to be, you don’t know how to get back on track. In

Abba wrote a song about money – perhaps you’re already playing the xylophone introduction in your mind? “In my dreams I have a plan, if I got me a wealthy man, I wouldn’t have to work at all” or “I

Some of the most effective stories we listen to and tell contain something that runs against what might be expected – something we may not notice at first take, but which makes us stop and think when we realise what

In my second year at university, I experienced something I will never forget. Late at night, I was sitting in my bed, reading, when the entire room began to vibrate. There was a low rumbling sound. It lasted for about

A wheel is such a simple thing. It’s round and it goes round; it has an axle and it has an edge. But what makes a wheel useful is when you use it (unicycle anyone?) or use a few (a

One of the things that holds a community together is the stories it tells. Stories we share about ourselves. “How did you meet?” Benjamin asked Jane and me this week. So we told the story – two slightly different versions

We often think of ‘The Wise Man built his house upon the rock’ as a children’s song, with the subtle implication that the story of wise and foolish builders is also for children. But why would that be? The child-builders

Froward and unable worm? Three-inch fool? As thick as Tewkesbury mustard? Shakespeare was a genius insults that amuse those listening – and also make us think again before we really understand them. But could an insult also be a gift

Luke’s preface tells us that he has interviewed the eyewitnesses and written his Gospel so that its first reader, a man called Theophilus, can be certain that what he has been taught is true. But one odd feature of the