Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘Each Monday he asked me how church was. I was no longer a dot. We were a line!’

26/09/2023 | Reform

In praise of Christians in the media, with Paul Kerensa

I recently attended an advance film screening. I know, fancy – I thought there had been some mistake. I rarely get invited to anything more impressive than a Next mid-season … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘After all, we’ve not read every book yet’

29/08/2023 | Reform

Paul Kerensa enjoys a bedtime story

I still read bedtime stories to my children, perhaps later than most. I don’t mean that it’s late in the day – a midnight reading would be madness. I mean our children may be … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘I found a YouTube channel with roller coasters and my kids took turns sitting in a laundry basket’

26/06/2023 | Reform 1

Paul Kerensa takes a Youtube roller coaster

Going anywhere nice on your holidays? Some years we take more trips than others, so this is what our summer hols looked like a couple of years back, during that oh-so-brief umpteen-week period … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘One day these AI programmes might scan everything I’ve ever written and decide if I’m friend or foe’

02/06/2023 | Reform

Paul Kerensa takes on the bots

From text to pictures, and to moving pictures, artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere. You may have ignored it until now, but you can’t ignore it for long.

If you’ve not used an AI chatbot … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘If a nice sandwich or a hairstyle are “amazing”, where do we go for what’s truly amazing?’

28/04/2023 | Reform

Chatting with my mum recently, it turns out she’s got an amazing bugbear: the word ‘amazing’. It’s overused, she said. Everywhere on television, radio and in magazines nowadays, we’re all finding everything ‘amazing’.

Soon after, a friend said he turns … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘I used to think I didn’t have time for a daily walk’

24/02/2023 | Reform

Paul Kerensa finds he has time to walk the dog

I’ve never been one for resolutions – they’re too breakable. Now Lent’s here, with yet more chances for me to over-self-promise and under-self-deliver. (At least my resolution to invent double-hyphenated … Read More