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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...

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The pulpit is one of the four most obvious pieces of ‘furniture’ in a church; the others being the lectern, altar and the font. Today the pulpit is where the preacher stands to give the sermon during a service. It is generally raised higher than the chairs or pews, so the preacher can be seen...

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...

The House of Bishops has set out key areas in which it is requesting further work from the implementation groups who are taking forward the recent decision of General Synod on offering prayers of thanksgiving, dedication and for God’s blessing for same-sex couples. The proposals debated at Synod, which were developed after a six-year period...

Henry Moore, the British sculptor and illustrator best known for his monumental semi-abstract bronze sculptures, was born 125 years ago, on 30th July 1898, in Castleford, a small mining town in Yorkshire. He knew he wanted to be a sculptor from an early age, having heard at Sunday school about Michelangelo’s life and work. But...

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...

When the US President Joe Biden announced that he was running for re-election, many of us thought he was too old. He will be 86 by the end of 2028. Trump will be 82. How could either of them run the United States at such an age? The argument about Biden and Trump will doubtless...

Time Choices A prayer for July Storms of Life The hairs upon your head Alfresco There Come reign in me Confidence in God ** Time Choices (Lk 10:38-42) Martha is distracted, too busy preparing for the needs of the day. Not enough time… not enough time. Mary is focused, taking time to meet the needs...

Summer evenings make it so easy to want a pizza – but before you reach for your next slice, there’s something you should know. Pizza is very high in salt. When the campaign group Action on Salt analysed the salt content of more than 1,300 pizzas from restaurants, takeaways and supermarkets, it found that one...

‘What is this life, if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?’ Those words of W H Davies provide the theme for this year. The paintings chosen celebrate creation in all its wonder and diversity, and we are encouraged to take time to look anew and so become aware of the...

Now thank we all our God With heart and hands and voices, Who wondrous things hath done, In whom His world rejoices; Who, from our mother’s arms, Hath blessed us on our way With countless gifts of love, And still is ours today. Oh may this bounteous God Through all our life be near us,...