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Last month I wrote about the Arts and Crafts Movement’s influence in the decoration of churches in Britain.  This is often evidenced in the designs of windows – but why do we have so much coloured glass of all shapes and sizes in church buildings? Stained glass in churches is similar to wall paintings in...

Lion Atlas of Bible History (Second Edition) Daily Bible Meditations for Everyone – 365 Reflections and Prayers In the Fullness of Time – A Story From the Past and Future of the Church Have You Ever Wondered? – Finding the Everyday Clues to Meaning, Purpose & Spirituality Jesus, Strong and Kind Living in a Dangerous...

For whatsoever things were written … were written for our learning, that we through… comfort of the scriptures might have hope…  Romans 15:4 Many of our churches have old chests which are used to keep books in. I have been in two recently where the chests were older than the churches themselves! I do not...

This is GOOD NEWS if you are nervous about flying: your chance of dying in a plane crash has been halved in the last decade. To put it another way, one person in every 13.7 million commercial aeroplane passengers worldwide who flew between 2018 and 2022 met with a fatal accident. That was a big...

Jude the apostle and martyr (1st century) warns us in his epistle that not all ‘evil’ comes in the form of obvious ghosties and ghoulies.  He writes instead to warn the Christians of the greater danger of people who infect others with heresy and moral failure.  He writes that they are nothing more than …. ...

In Russia, an outspoken Christian preacher is facing trial for posting a question on social media. And in occupied Ukraine, a Christian woman could be jailed for up to ten years for remarks made in a prayer meeting. ‘Both cases reflect the rising persecution of Christians in Russia and in Russian-occupied Ukraine,’ says Paul Robinson,...

A new film series, ‘Does God Care About My Work?’ has been launched by the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. It is designed to ‘help Christians discover why their work matters to God, and how they can make a difference with Him through their regular tasks.” More details at:  Licc.org.uk/ourresources.

The Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice has released the fifth of its biannual Racial Justice reports. Mandated to drive ‘significant cultural and structural change on issues of racial justice within the Church of England’, the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice (ACRJ), headed by The Rt Hon Lord Paul Boateng, is charged with monitoring, holding to account...

John Henry Newman was a great Victorian churchman, an inspired Anglican preacher and teacher who became a Roman Catholic in 1845. Newman was also a poet and wrote hymns that have remained perennial favourites – among them, ‘Lead, kindly Light ‘and ‘Praise to the Holiest.’ The first hymn was written when, as an Anglican, Newman...

Spoken, Written, Living Word Prayer for October 2024 The Dance Celebrating the Writers of Hymns What colour is that? He is Always There ** Spoken, Written, Living Word (Ps 119:105, Isaiah 40:8, 55:11, Jn1:1) God has spoken. His word created everything In the beginning. God saw all That He had spoken into being, And it...

 Come, ye thankful people, come, Raise the song of harvest home! All is safely gathered in, Ere the winter storms begin;< God, our maker, doth provide For our wants to be supplied; Come to God’s own temple, come; Raise the song of harvest home! We ourselves are God’s own field, Fruit unto his praise to...

-for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill The Church has submitted written evidence to a group of MSPs who are investigating the case for legalising assisted dying in Scotland. The purpose of the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill is to introduce a lawful form of assisted dying for people over the age of...