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Just outside Warwick there's an old leper hospital, dating from 1275. Between 1050 and 1450, leprosy was common enough that England had over 300 of them. It's a cruel disease. It can take anywhere from a few months up to twenty years or more to show itself - often starting as nothing more than a small white patch, or numbness in the fingers or toes. From there it spreads across the body, attacking skin and nerves, sometimes causing blindness and deformity, and eventually deat

If you spend time walking in the hills or mountains, you’ll often come across piles of stones carefully balanced on top of one another. These cairns have traditionally served as way-markers: signs left behind to guide others along the path. There seems to be something deeply human about marking important places and moments. We leave reminders behind because we do not want to forget. We want others to remember too. In the Bible, people often set up stones or pillars as memoria

Easter is full of familiar faces — the disciples, the women at the tomb, Pilate, the soldiers. But some of the most revealing characters in the story are the ones we barely notice. Two of them have something striking in common: neither deserved what they received. And that's exactly the point. A murderer goes free On the morning of Jesus's crucifixion, a man named Barabbas stood before Pontius Pilate expecting a death sentence. He was guilty of insurrection, riot, and murder