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A new pilot scheme from the Church of England is helping churches double their money for carbon-cutting projects. Give To Go Green is a match-funding pilot project from the Church of England’s Net Zero Programme, working with churches to double locally raised donations, to help pay for carbon reducing projects. The scheme was first piloted over...

Hostility towards Christians is growing in India. In the past four years, almost 1700 people have been arrested under anti-conversion laws in one state, Uttar Pradesh, alone. And Uttar Pradesh is moving to tighten that law. A new bill increases the maximum penalty for fraudulent or forced conversion to 20 years with provision for life...

Odran is a suitable saint to remember as Halloween approaches, for his story involves the spirit world. British by birth, Odran (died c. 563) was one of Columba’s first companions on Iona.  Sadly, he died not long after his arrival on the island.  But Columba found comfort, for in a vision he saw Odran’s soul...

Walkers in Britain could stand to lose thousands of miles of rights of way, because of the sheer size of the growing backlog of applications for footpaths to be recognised and protected. The Government has set a deadline of 2031 for public footpaths and bridleways to be officially mapped. But local authorities still have nearly...

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...