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The demand for emergency food parcels distributed by the Trussel Trust’s foodbank network has nearly doubled in five years, with a record amount being handed out over the past 12 months alone. Between April 2023 and March 2024, 3.1 million food parcels were given out; 65 per cent of which went to families with children....

It was 125 years ago, on 1st July 1899, that Gideons International was founded.  The evangelical Christian association places free Bibles in hotel rooms, hospitals, schools, military bases and prisons around the world. It started when two traveling salesmen from Wisconsin in the northern USA – John Nicholson of Janesville and Samuel Hill of Beloit –...

Have you ever suffered from gossip? Ever discovered that people are saying some really wild things about you?  If so, Joseph of Arimathea would understand – and sympathise with you.  This decent, godly man of the gospels seems to have fired the imaginations of all sorts of odd people down the centuries. Joseph was a...

Kirk members have been called on to lobby MSPs to tackle Scotland’s care sector crisis, with the warning that the system is in danger of collapse. The plea came from the Revd Thom Riddell, convener of CrossReach, the Church of Scotland’s social care arm, after he presented the Social Care Council report to the General...

It’s important to have debates about science and Christian faith and to dig into the hot topics, but we can’t exist solely on a diet of controversy. I find it helpful, at times, to simply enjoy the wonders revealed by science and the big questions they raise about meaning and purpose. What’s the universe for?...

The free UK debt advice charity, Christians Against Poverty (CAP), has called for more funding for free debt advice, as demand is expected to rise further. CAP’s recently published annual report highlights how two years of high living costs have been crumbling the financial security of millions of households, and leading them into debt. It reports that...

Those church bulletin notices that went wrong somewhere…. ~ This Sunday morning following services we will have our monthly feelowship. ~ This blooper showed up on the main page of the Internet web site for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada: “In a show of near anonymity, the convention approved full communion with the Anglican...

The Rectory St James the Least My dear Nephew Darren You should not complain about doing duty in other churches when their clergy are on holiday. It is only in other churches that you will be appreciated. Beatification only comes from your own church on the day you leave – which is a way of...

God’s Promises for Everyone Antigone Kingsley: Don’t Judge Me Shaped by the Spirit – being formed into an outward-focused people Grandparenting for Faith: sharing God with the children you love the most Before You Open Your Bible – 9 heart postures for approaching God’s Word Have No Fear – being salt and light even when...

With the various on-going world crises in mind:  ~ O Lord, baptise our hearts into a sense of the conditions and need of all men. – George Fox ~ Feel for others – in your pocket. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon ~ No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he had only good intentions. He...

In 1956 a small novel by a German writer, Johannes Rüber, appeared in an English translation. It was called ‘Bach and the Heavenly Choir’ and tells of Pope Gregory XIX’s desire to elevate Bach to the ranks of the saints. To bring together the Lutheran bishop and his own cardinals, he organizes a great Bach...

In a recent World Health Organisation (WHO) study covering 44 countries, children in England, Wales and Scotland performed badly when it came to brisk walking and daily consistent exercise. Too many youngsters are also missing breakfast, and not eating enough vegetables. The survey looked at the exercise levels of children aged 11, 13 and 15...