FOUR years ago Christine Varney, White House staffer and proud mum, took her small son to eat in the office canteen. A hamburger later, his face smothered in ketchup, the three-year-old encountered ...

Last Sunday I preached a church in Ashe County, North Carolina. While I have never served Bethany United Methodist Church as a pastor I have been "supply" preaching there for some 15 years now. The ...