Christian "how-to" books on prayer can often be dry, intimidating or cloying. In her first foray with a large American publishing house, British author Silf successfully avoids all of these pitfalls.

Would your world be changed if you had regular coffee (and wine) dates with the 16th-century Spaniard Ignatius Loyola? That’s the implicit question posed in this intriguing time travel experiment by ...

I had never been inside an ambulance before. I didn’t for a moment expect to discover that night what the inside of an ambulance looks like. But that’s lifeone minute we have an agenda, the next ...