After a midweek church gathering, a few of us stayed behind where people relax a little, cups in hand, slices of cake on napkins, familiar faces chatting about everyday life. I sat near an older man I’ll call “Peter” and his wife “Anne.” Peter had been around the church for decades. He was well known, and, if I’m honest, someone who resisted change. But that day, he grew unusually quiet. Then he said something I didn’t expect: “I’ve been in church for most of my life… but I’m

The Welsh Revival of 1904–1905 remains one of the most remarkable outpourings of religious fervour in modern history. Its stories are legendary: 100,000 converts in six months, empty pubs, and police forces forming singing quartets because crime had seemingly vanished. But perhaps no aspect of the revival vividly illustrates its total, culture-shaping power better than the so-called "Football Crisis." It was a period when the nation’s primary secular devotion, sport, was temp

When the World Feels Heavy The Lord is close to the broken-hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. (Psalm 34:18, NIV) The ache of another month October has been a heavy month for our world. Another month where headlines seemed soaked with sorrow: war still raging in Ukraine, fragile ceasefires flickering in Gaza, and nations trembling under the weight of division, inflation, and mistrust. It is hard not to feel the weariness of it all. Sometimes I sit down to read