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The Church of Scotland has issued a fresh call for the establishment of safe and legal routes to the UK. Commissioners to the recent General Assembly were told that no one would willingly cross dangerous seas and deal with human traffickers if there was an offer of safe travel available. Emma Jackson, Public Life and...

If you led a wild life before your conversion, then Olaf is the saint for you. Indeed, anything you have done could hardly match him, for he was a brigand and pirate who roamed the Baltic and Normandy around 1015 AD, maiming and killing, stealing and destroying, feared by all. Then on one particular raid...

Seventy years ago, on 21st July 1954, the first part of J R R Tolkien’s epic fantasy novel The Lord of the Ringswas published. The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume of a trilogy later published together, was a much more adult-oriented sequel to The Hobbit, published in 1937. It occupied the same ground...

The General Assembly has been warned that Church of Scotland military chaplains “could more or less disappear” unless more people can be recruited. In a recent speech, convener of the Chaplains to HM Forces Committee the Revd Scott Brown, described this as “a disaster”. He warned: “Our ability to recruit Church of Scotland ministers to...

Almost five million people in Haiti, half of them children, face the imminent threat of famine as an extraordinarily active hurricane season approaches the region. Latin America and the Caribbean are predicted to be hit with 23 named storms, and out of those, 11 potential hurricanes between now and November. These could bring landslides, floods...

The harm caused by too much alcohol consumption costs the NHS £4.9 billion a year – enough to pay the salaries of almost half the nurses in England. So warns the Institute of Alcohol Studies (IAS) in a new report. Overall, it says that alcohol harm costs England £27.4 billion a year. This includes the...

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Do you have doubts about the Christian faith? July is the month for you to decide what to do about them. This month the Church remembers Doubting Thomas, and there IS action you can take, either way. You know the story: Thomas was the only apostle not present when Jesus appeared to the disciples on...

During the 18th century many people in England were involved in the campaign to abolish the slave trade.  The CofE remembers especially William Wilberforce, Olaudah Equiano and Thomas Clarkson – three very different but all tireless campaigners against the evil practice. Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846) was an Anglican clergyman and one of the most prominent of...

The demand for emergency food parcels distributed by the Trussel Trust’s foodbank network has nearly doubled in five years, with a record amount being handed out over the past 12 months alone. Between April 2023 and March 2024, 3.1 million food parcels were given out; 65 per cent of which went to families with children....

It was 125 years ago, on 1st July 1899, that Gideons International was founded.  The evangelical Christian association places free Bibles in hotel rooms, hospitals, schools, military bases and prisons around the world. It started when two traveling salesmen from Wisconsin in the northern USA – John Nicholson of Janesville and Samuel Hill of Beloit –...

Have you ever suffered from gossip? Ever discovered that people are saying some really wild things about you?  If so, Joseph of Arimathea would understand – and sympathise with you.  This decent, godly man of the gospels seems to have fired the imaginations of all sorts of odd people down the centuries. Joseph was a...