By: Sheridan VoyseyI recently heard a fascinating story about a heart surgeon. At the end of one operation, he returned his patient’s heart back into the chest and began gently massaging it back to life. But the heart wouldn’t restart.More intense measures followed, but the heart still...
By: Sheridan VoyseyPick up a typical self-help book and it probably won’t be long before the author tells you to Follow your dreams. As a dreamer, I love this advice. But if you were to ask my friend about hers, she’d struggle to tell you. Because she’s not a dreamer, and...
By: Sheridan VoyseyOn a day-to-day level, few of us probably think much about angels. They’re just stone statues in cemeteries or marble sculptures in galleries, the stuff of children’s tales and renaissance paintings, not of flesh-and-blood life. I may be wrong, but even people of...
By: Sheridan VoyseyWhenever I speak on dreams someone will inevitably put up their hand and ask, ‘What if you don’t have any dreams for your life? How can you find one?’You may not be a particularly dream-driven person. Or you may just be too tired from the trials...
By: Sheridan VoyseySometimes I’m surprised at what I get nostalgic about. Recently I was reminiscing about the way in-flight entertainment used to be done on planes. You might remember it. Before we had individual touch screens with a million movie options, a hostess would announce the...
By: Sheridan Voysey“Coronavirus is of such a magnitude that future historians who write books in the 2050’s will divide post-war Britain into BC and AC – Before Corona and After Corona. I think it’s that significant.” Peter Hennessy, BBC Radio 4 “Are we really...
By: Sheridan VoyseyLast year an Australian friend came to visit me. When Jason arrived I wasted no time showing him the best of Oxfordshire, taking him to Blenheim Palace, the Bodleian Library, Oxford’s old quarter, and cosy villages with thatched-roof cottages to prove such things really...
By: Sheridan VoyseyI recently asked my seven year-old nephew what he wanted to be when he grew up. With delightful honesty he said, “I want to be famous!” The reason turned out to be his favourite YouTube celebrity. With their thousands of subscribers and millions of views, he one day...
By: Sheridan VoyseyCateura is a small slum in Paraguay, South America, built on a rubbish tip. Desperately poor, its villagers eke out a living by recycling and selling whatever they can find in the garbage. But from these unpromising conditions something beautiful has emerged – an...
By: Sheridan VoyseyA new year. A new decade. We have crossed a threshold, begun a new story, bidding the old farewell to make way for the new. What are you looking forward to? New Lands, New DiscoveriesAlong with birthdays and significant holidays, researchers tell us a new year is a time when we...
By: Sheridan Voysey“We’re going to give God all the glory right now—all the glory.”The Hammond organ softly played, the choir began to sway and the congregation launched into a Gospel song. But this was no church service, and the speaker was no preacher. Instead, it was...
By: Sheridan VoyseyWhere would we be without books? What wonder and wisdom we’d miss out on, what delight we’d forfeit. And so I present to you this year’s edition of my Best Books list (you can find previous year’s lists here). These are the titles I read, those I had...