I write a weekly column for The Dallas Morning News as a contributor to their Texas Faith blog. This week we were asked, "What would Jesus…

David Cronenberg built his reputation on making challenging, boundary-breaking films which explore sexuality, violence and death. So…

How do you begin to tell stories about a war which claimed more than fifteen million lives? For children's author Michael Morpurgo, the…

A review of the recent Sherlock Holmes films and BBC TV series.

“It takes a worried man to sing a worried song.” So croons popular singer Paolo Nutini in a song on his latest album Sunny Side…

Mark Meynell is disoriented by the reality-probing of Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives. There are three deaths. The first is when…

A review of the film I Am Legend.

It seems like we can't do without God; or anyway something like him. 'In each of us there is an empty hole in the shape of God', said…

A review of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.