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Planted in the love of the Father Prayer for June 2024 The Chief Purpose of Man All of One Heart and of One Mind A Distant Grave A Night in June Shield me The cattle grazing A Grape, a Well, a Spark, a Seed ** Planted in the love of the Father Planted in the...

It was 75 years ago, on 8th June 1949, that George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four was published. The book focuses on a society dominated by central government, whose citizens are kept in line by force and mind control, and by restricting access to the truth. Orwell invented terms like ‘Big Brother’, ‘doublethink’ and ‘thoughtcrime’, and...

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When you drive in the English countryside you should be able to see at least one church spire or tower from pretty much anywhere. Just about every village has its own church building. The size and grandeur of these village churches varies greatly, and was usually dependent on who paid for them in the first...

Have you been wondering about an old friend with whom you have lost contact? Do you feel a bit hesitant about contacting them again? You are not alone. It seems that rekindling an old friendship can be as nerve-wracking as speaking to a stranger, according to the findings of a recent study by the University...

The Rectory St James the Least My dear Nephew Darren Your remark that you rather liked the silence we keep before starting Services gave me pause for thought. I suppose all things are relative. I know that the noise your congregation makes before worship resembles a packed stand on the football terraces any Saturday afternoon,...

Our world has an urgent rubbish problem. But Christians are uniting to take global action. So says the charity Tearfund, as it launches a campaign to highlight the threat of the growing mountains of plastic pollution. “Two billion people have no safe way to dispose of rubbish, and it’s people in poverty who are suffering...

This series is written by Dr Ruth M Bancewicz, who is Church Engagement Director at The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion in Cambridge. Ruth writes on the positive relationship between Science and Christian faith.  Wonders of the Living World What are the best metaphors we could use to describe biological things? You might be...

The Archbishop of Wales has called for a halt to the “indefensible abuse” of our waterways. Rivers, he said, were dying because of pollution. Archbishop Andrew John’s comments came during his recent Presidential Address to members of the Governing Body of the Church in Wales at the start of its two-day meeting in Newport. Archbishop...

Preparing the way for the Messiah John the Baptist is famous for baptising Jesus, and for losing his head to a woman. He was born to Zechariah, a Temple priest, and Elizabeth, who was a cousin of Mary, the mother of Jesus. John was born when his mother was advanced in years, and after the...

If you love the sound of church bells, and have at least some ‘sense of timing’, why not consider becoming a bell-ringer? Church bells are incredibly heavy – ranging from six hundredweight to more than 28 hundredweight per bell – but anyone is strong enough to ring them.  Ringers range from schoolchildren to teenagers, from...

‘Surprised by Joy’ is the title C S Lewis gave to his spiritual autobiography. To him, joy meant not just the name of the woman he eventually married, but also an awareness of God’s glory and goodness. It was something that, like Wordsworth, he experienced in childhood, and later in his thirties when his faith...