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This month we are looking at Exodus, the second book of the Old Testament. Its name means departure, reminding us that Israel’s flight out of slavery in Egypt is the major focus of the book. Exodus is a book of two halves! The first part (chapters 1-19 & 32-34) is the story of an oppressed...

This year Church Action on Poverty Sunday is on 11th February, when Christians around the country are urged to remember those in real need. Perhaps one of the most serious impacts of poverty is the dire state of homelessness. The numbers are staggering. More than 300,000 people are homeless in the UK; 119 families in...

Although Russian troops were massing near the borders of Ukraine in February 2022, we naively believed their denial that an attack was imminent. Since then, an all-out war has resulted in tens of thousands of civilian deaths, and hundreds of thousands of military casualties. A quarter of the Ukrainian population has been displaced. Eight million are now...

– sad search for acceptance and love Did you have a miserable childhood? Were your parents more absorbed in themselves than in you? Later, looking for love, did you fall for the wrong man? Perhaps you now have children of your own, and struggle to raise them. If you feel your life has been ‘wrong-footed’...

Have you been a patient or visitor to a hospital this past year? If so, you are not imagining it: the cost of parking there has skyrocketed. In fact, parking charges for hospital patients and visitors have leapt by £50 million in a year. Recent NHS accounts show that hospital trusts made nearly £146 million...

Statement from the House of Bishops on the ongoing War in Gaza Prayers of Love and Faith made available for use Faith leaders call for change to asylum-claim system Archbishop urges Government to scrap two-child benefit cap Hundreds of Christians arrested under India’s anti-conversion laws ** Editor: We have run this story long, but of...

– faithful servant who would not deny his Lord Polycarp (c. 69 – c. 155) was one of the most important Christians in Roman Asia in the mid-2nd century, because of his link between the time of the Apostles and the earliest Christian Fathers. This disciple of John the Apostle became bishop of Smyrna and...

The Bishop of Norwich, Graham Usher, lead bishop for Environmental Affairs, has been reflecting on the recent COP28. Here are some extracts of what he says: “My hopes for COP28 were that we needed a commitment to phase out fossil fuels, make significant progress with the Loss and Damage Fund, prioritise resilience building for climate...

Twenty years ago, on 4th February 2004, Facebook, the social media networking platform, was launched. Originally known as thefacebook.com, it was intended by Mark Zuckerberg and four other Harvard students – Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes – to create “a directory of information for college students”, but it soon expanded, and each...

– faithful servant who would not deny his Lord Polycarp (c. 69 – c. 155) was one of the most important Christians in Roman Asia in the mid-2nd century, because of his link between the time of the Apostles and the earliest Christian Fathers. This disciple of John the Apostle became bishop of Smyrna and...

You may not be the only one enjoying the comfort of your car this winter. According to recent figures from the RAC, if you have left your car standing alone for even a week, then anything from rats, squirrels, mice, foxes and even snakes may have moved in. A squirrel stockpiling nuts in a car...

The following are extracts from the Statement. “We are dismayed that the place of our Saviour’s birth is once again wracked by violence, death and destruction. “We grieve that innocent children have been disproportionately affected by this conflict. “Of the 1,300 people killed in the abhorrent terrorist attacks of Hamas on 7th October, 33 were...