A long time ago – thankfully before the age of Youtube and social media – I used to do a bit of music; there was a very brief band with a...

One of my Christmas reads was a book called ‘the Ruthless Elimination of Hurry’ by an American pastor called John Mark Comer. It’s not...

Conservative or Socialist? Right Wing or Left Wing? It may be that other options are available. I'd like to make a case for Liberalism....

You can take the title one of two ways. Perhaps you have always voted Conservative for various reasons but are you really, truthfully...

I’ve always been interested in organisation and time management - I wonder if the word I am looking for is Productivity. I included some...

If you do any sort of logic, philosophy or critical thinking course, you will come across the false dilemma, otherwise known as the...

The new academic year has begun. Teachers are well rested but no doubt viewing the workload of the coming weeks with some trepidation. We...

One of the best things about teaching and studying the Business Ethics topic in A Level Religious Studies is that there are a number of...

Students are beginning to enrol at sixth forms and colleges. In larger sixth form settings, one option is Religious Studies but why would...

Just over 4 months ago I announced my news that I would be leaving full time teaching to prioritise my self-employed work as an examiner,...

The shelves are full of books on leadership; yet there are next to no books on following; there is no follower-ship section. As much as...

'He is risen' is the familiar greeting amongst Christians at Easter. The belief that Jesus died and came back to life is central to...

I have some news. After almost 25 years in full time teaching, I am about to make a big change. I will be stepping down as head of...

I’ve been thinking a lot about time. Whilst doing my New Testament Greek I learned that there were two Greek words for time, Chronos and Kairos. Chronos is the simple passage of time, ‘it was 6 o’clock, it is now 9 o’clock’, that’s Chronos. Then there's Kairos. Kairos is not just simply a passage of time, it carries the sense of a significant time, an opportune time or a season. So when we say ‘it’s time to expand the business’ or ‘it’s time that we settled down and bought a

Recent news stories of 60 hour weeks, Debra Kidd’s honest reflections on her experience and the subsequent debate on Twitter have led me...

I almost didn’t write a review post this year but prompted my @MartynReah and #teacher5aday I think it is important to pause and notice...

I’m not a massive fan of ‘I’m a celebrity’ but I do have a lot of respect for Mo Farah. From arriving in England from war torn Somalia...

credit https://biblepic.com/john/18-36/htm ‘My kingdom is not of this world’ said Jesus. Jesus was not interested in political power....

'My People are destroyed from lack of knowledge.' (Hosea 4:6) I know that Facebook has not banned the Lord's Prayer, and that schools...

Sunday before the second half term. If the academic year was a fight round one ended a week ago and we look ahead knowing that rounds two...