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Spare a thought for John the Baptist: however rough your local sandwich bar may be, it probably doesn’t serve you locusts with a honey dip; you won’t be imprisoned for saying derogatory things about the local MP’s wife, and even the boss from hell is unlikely to have a daughter who wants to hip-hop about...

Christian Aid has been working “around the clock” with its partners in Ukraine to make sure fresh water supplies are reaching survivors, after the Nova Kakhovka dam was recently destroyed. It is also providing humanitarian supplies to people who are displaced across, or who had to leave, the affected areas of southern Ukraine. Iryna Dobrohorska, Chirstian...

The Church of England Pensions Board has recently announced its intention to disinvest from Shell plc and other oil and gas companies which are failing to show sufficient ambition to decarbonise in line with the aims of the Paris Agreement. The new investment restriction will apply to all oil and gas companies that do not...

Proposed details of the Church of England’s national Redress Scheme for survivors of Church-related abuse have recently been published. As we go to press, they were due to be presented and debated at the Church’s General Synod. It is hoped that legislation will progress through Synod in forthcoming sessions after which it will need Parliamentary...

After the Bible, John Bunyan’s wonderful Christian allegory, the Pilgrim’s Progress, is one of the most celebrated and widely-read books in the English language.  It has been translated into more than one hundred languages around the world and keeps its place as a Christian classic. Names of people and places from its pages have been...

More than 20.1 million people across Ethiopia are without the food they need to survive. They are in crisis because of the prolonged drought, caused by the failure of five rainy seasons. And because the land is now so dry, the recent brief rains only caused flash flooding, that destroyed more farmland and drought-weakened livestock. As...

Have you ever considered the abbreviation A.S.A.P. (As Soon As Possible)? Generally, it brings even more hurry and stress into our lives. Yet there is another way to think of A.S.A.P, a way which might help us deal with those difficult times in our daily lives. When there’s work to do, and deadlines to meet,...

** Editor:  Musings on the Christian walk Make sure it is God’s trumpet you are blowing – if it is only yours it won’t wake the dead, it will simply disturb the neighbours. – W Ian Thomas God does not keep office hours. –  A W Tozer When considering your future:  give God what’s right...

Bumblebees like churchyards. At least, they were the insects most seen during a recent survey of churchyards and burial grounds in England. It all shows “how valuable, when managed sensitively, many of our churchyards are for bumblebees,” said a spokesman for Caring for God’s Acre, a conservation charity for UK burial grounds.  Such places often...

Transfiguration Teach us to pray The Water of Life The Ancient Lanes of England I am your ship No money ** Transfiguration (Luke 9:28-36) Praying on the mountain top We saw amazing things, Moses and Elijah And Jesus, in dazzling white, his face shining. The Lawgiver, the Prophet And the Lord. Written Word, Spoken Word,...

The Bishop of Truro, Philip Mounstephen, has welcomed the UN Security Council’s recent adoption of a joint UK / UAE Government resolution highlighting threats to Freedom of Religion or Belief. The steps taken by the UK Government followed a review authored by Bishop Philip at the invitation of the then Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, the implementation of...

Did you know that there are 18 species of bat in the UK? And did you know that these bats make up almost a quarter of ALL our mammal species? So, our UK bats are well worth celebrating. And International Bat Night brings together bat groups and the Bat Conservation Trust, to provide many opportunities...