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Very few people stand out as being incredibly good, but Vincent de Paul was one of them.  His life touched thousands of people, who were helped and inspired by his love and kindness. Vincent de Paul was born in 1581 to a Gascon peasant family at Ranquine. Educated by the Franciscans and then at Toulouse...

Four hundred years ago, on 10th September 1624, Thomas Sydenham, the English physician who became known as the “father of English medicine”, was born in Dorset. His textbook on medicine, Observationes Medicae, became the standard medical textbook in England for the next 200 years. Sydenham came from a Puritan family, and his medical studies were...

A national mission charity is to receive more than £700,000 to help Church of England parishes attract more children and young people and increase the size of worshipping communities. Leading your Church into Growth (popularly known as LyCiG), has been awarded £755,100 by the Strategic Mission and Mission Investment Board (SMMIB) to increase its provision...

 The Church of England has recently launched a new network of 40 worshipping communities, furthering its vision of becoming younger and more diverse. The new FLOURISH network will establish partnerships between schools or Further Education colleges and their local churches, aiming to engage a large number of children, young people, and their families. An initial...

‘Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race that is marked out for us.’ (Hebrews 12:1) With the Paris Olympics still so recent, this imagery can really speak to...

What really gets a woman remembered?  Loved? Respected? Lioba the abbess of Bischofsheim is the patron saint for any woman who wants to make the most of her life. Lioba was born in Wessex early in the 8th century.  Her family was noble, her mother was a relative of the monk Boniface (the Billy Graham...

One hundred years ago, on 25th September 1924, British racing driver Malcolm Campbell broke the land speed record for the first time. He recorded a speed of 146mph in a 1921 Sunbeam Grand Prix car at Pendine Sands, Carmarthen Bay, Wales. Born in Kent in March 1885, Major Sir Malcolm Campbell MBE was a man...

The NHS is worried because eating disorders have risen by 52 per cent since the pandemic. And it suspects that part of the problem, for young girls and women, is their increasing use of energy drinks to suppress hunger and provide energy without calories. A huge range of these highly caffeinated drinks are now available,...

So says the charity Open Doors. It warns that the election of the cardiac surgeon Masoud Pezeshkian as the new ‘reformist’ President of Iran is not a signal that the lives of Christians are likely to improve, even though Pezeshkian has lived and studied in the United States. A persecution analyst with Open Doors’ World...

Members of the public are now able to feel the rings of the felled Sycamore Gap tree, thanks to a new art exhibition. The 200-year-old sycamore was cut down last year in a “malicious act of vandalism”. But it has now been ‘brought to life’ through a series of five prints, created from a disc...

More than 100 of the country’s highest carbon emitting churches will be given funding for net zero projects which others can learn from as part of a new project. The £5.2m Demonstrator Churches project from the Church of England’s Net Zero Programme aims to help 114 churches in 2024 and 2025 pay for items such...

Miscellaneous observations on our Christian pilgrimage Holy means set apart. Not like a set of cutlery, that comes out only on Sundays. More like a Swiss army knife – remove a splinter, cut a rope, open a bottle, anytime, anywhere.  Whatever the boss needs. – Milton Jones Desert and mountain places located on the margins...