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Editor:  We apologise for the rather ‘scarce’ stories this month.  This is because it was written in late summer, when church organisations are at their most quiet. We will offer a wider selection of church-based stories for next month! ** The world’s migrants are mostly Christians How can Christians first back against disinformation? Women’s Leadership...

Crocs. The foam clogs have now become the fastest-growing ‘cool’ brand with British children. The footwear company even ranks above companies such as Star Wars, the BBC and Converse, according to a recent poll of young people. Some say the success is because crocs are growing more popular with girls. Girls are turning to them...

A new analysis of data by the Pew Research Centre in Washington DC has found that of the more than 280 million people, or 3.6% of the world’s population, who are currently international migrants (living outside their country of birth), 47% of them are Christian. They are followed by Muslims (29% of all living migrants),...

Of the 54 Roman emperors who ruled AD 30 to 311, only about a dozen made the effort to persecute Christians. One of these was the Emperor Trajan, who ruled AD 98 to 117, though he was half-hearted about it. He decreed that Christians, although guilty of “anti-state behaviour”, were not to be hunted out...

So it is no wonder that more than a third of dog owners have now stopped letting their pet swim in the sea. According to a recent Savanta survey, the possibility of raw sewage-dumping is deeply concerning to dog owners. 41 per cent of them said it has made them less likely to let their...

António Guterres (United Nations Secretary-General) has said that we’re at ‘Code red for humanity: the alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk.’ At this time of Creationtide, how are we to respond...

If you love languages, then Henry Martyn is the saint for you. Born in 1781, and schooled in Truro, he went on to St John’s College in Cambridge, where he proved a brilliant student. He planned on becoming a lawyer, but at Cambridge he met Charles Simeon, the Vicar of Holy Trinity Cambridge, and a...

Forty years ago, on 16th October 1984, the South African Anglican, Bishop Desmond Tutu won the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the opposition to apartheid. Born into a Methodist family in Transvaal in 1931, Tutu first went into teaching, but after three years retired in protest at the deteriorating standard of black...

Disinformation and fake news have helped fuel the recent riots and disorder taking place across parts of the UK. It’s just the latest example of how social media can impact all of our lives. Media campaigning charity Full Fact declared “The disorder we’ve seen, triggered at least in part by false claims circulating on social...

Women are increasingly represented in church leadership across many denominations. Some have had women in leadership right from the start, like the Salvation Army, while the Roman Catholics and the Orthodox still have none. The Church of England ordained women in 1994, and since then their numbers have increased every year since 2000. The average...

António Guterres (United Nations Secretary-General) has said that we’re at ‘Code red for humanity: the alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable: greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk.’ At this Creationtide, how are we to respond to these...

Mark is the second of the synoptic gospels, along with Matthew and Luke. Traditionally this gospel is ascribed to John Mark, a close associate of Peter. It was written for Gentile readers, probably in Rome during Nero’s persecution of the church (c AD 64-7). Mark unveils Jesus’ public ministry with the words: ‘the beginning of...