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Beloved monk and bishop of Lindisfarne Cuthbert of Lindisfarne (c 634-87) has long been northern England’s favourite saint. It is easy to see why: Cuthbert was holy, humble, peaceable, prayerful, faithful in friendship, winsome, and really kind. Cuthbert was born into a fairly well-off Anglo-Saxon family, and he became a monk at Melrose in 651....

Throughout the month of March, the end-of-life charity Marie Curie will once again be holding their annual flagship fundraiser, the Great Daffodil Appeal. There’s only one chance to give someone the best possible end of life. And one chance for you to help fund care that makes that possible. Care that protects someone’s dignity –...

Several C of E dioceses have deserted the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. According to a recent story in Premier Christian News, their exodus follows concerns over the direction of the platform and its content since Elon Musk took over as owner in 2022. Musk has praised the site as being now...

Here you can download all of our March issue in one document.

250 years ago, on 23rd March 1775, Patrick Henry, a Founding Father of the United States, gave a famous speech at the Second Virginia Convention. He called for America’s independence from Britain, saying “Give me liberty or give me death!” Henry’s widely praised oratory persuaded the convention, which included future US presidents Thomas Jefferson and...

Archbishop of Canterbury & Reformation Martyr If you have ever been caught up in a great event at work, which has gone on to change your own life, then Thomas Cranmer is the saint for you. He was the first ever Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury, following King Henry VIII’s decision to pull away from Rome,...

Somebody asked a Christian friend why he was eating doughnuts, when he had given them up for Lent! He answered, ‘At the bakers I told God, that if He wanted me to buy doughnuts, He should provide a parking space in front. On the eighth time around, there it was!’ Rather than seeing Lent simply...

Why you love your mother Don’t make your children finish their food Changing a light bulb is a generational thing Many millennials are still at home< Why a glass of milk may help save your life Social media is not for children Another thing your GP will soon be looking for Whisper it softly, but...

The first Thursday in March brings us World Book Day. So, this month is a good time to think about sending Christian books around the world. For the last 35 years, the Book Aid Charitable Trust has collected Bibles and Christian literature books from supporters in the UK and supplied them to its partners in...

Seventy years ago, on 11th March 1955, the Scottish bacteriologist Sir Alexander Fleming died. He was joint winner with Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Howard Walter Florey of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for discovering penicillin. Fleming was not the tidiest researcher, and his discovery of penicillin came about more or less by accident,...

Reform the NHS, or half the population could end up in A&E. That is the dire warning of the medical director for NHS in England. Sir Stephen Powis says that the health service must ‘go for broke’ in delivering more care outside of hospitals, if the A&E system is not to face a total collapse....

 The good-natured carer (this is her normal place in the church calendar) Families are divided in two kinds of people: givers and takers. Blessed is the family with at least one ‘giver’, that someone of a cheerful, generous nature who does not panic when you ask them for help. These kindly saints are on hand...