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It may not sound like the most exciting of vocations, but your contribution may all the same be of real, substantial help to the churches in our diocese. Diocesan synod elections are soon underway this month, and this time people of many different backgrounds and ages are being encouraged to stand for election. Some dioceses...

Do you tend to avoid conflict?  When you feel stressed, do you crave sleep?  Then the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus would be good patron saints for you.  But – you may find it hard to copy their successful method of avoiding trouble! Legend has it that The Seven Sleepers were third century Christians who lived...

Look around your home. How much of the contents of your bedroom, kitchen, living room and even garage came to you over the seas, via the great merchant ships? What would your home be like without them? Yet when did you last give a thought to the people who bring them to you? It is...

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...