A couple of stories in the newspapers this week plunged me into a sadness that verged on despair.

The Barna Group is a Christian research organisation and it has conducted hundreds of studies on parents.

You have to laugh — otherwise you’d cry — when you look at the chaotic political scene in New Zealand and elsewhere, Europe particularly.

Without doubt, Jesus was full of compassion for those he met.

As I sit at my computer with a sore throat and a runny nose, coughing and spluttering and feeling generally miserable,

I once heard someone say that if the issue of absent fathers was a medical disease, governments would be calling it an epidemic and would be throwing millions of dollars at it to find the cure.