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There are storms coming this winter. So warns Ecclesiastical Insurance. And so it has been giving advice on how to prevent damage to property during the coming storm season.  Its recommendations include removing loose roof materials, repairing damaged guttering, and clearing blocked rainwater gullies. According to the Association of British Insurers, last year’s storms led...

Editor:  As we remember All Saints Day, here are some observations on the Christian life Dwight L. Moody is quoted as saying that out of 100 people, one will read the Bible and the other 99 will read the Christian. The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably...

The health of Wales’s waterways and landscape will be the focus of an all-Wales climate summit hosted by the Church in Wales next year. The two-day event will bring together academics, activists, pressure groups and stakeholders to discuss the impact of industry, agriculture, and homes on the environment. The summit was announced by the Archbishop...

For the first time in the UK, doctors have given out more than one million antidepressant prescriptions to teenagers – in just one year. Leading mental health experts believe it is “further evidence of a significant decline in the mental health of young people on the back of the pandemic.” The figures reveal that in...

Have you ever been at home, and suddenly smelled something burning in the house?  Most of us react to it immediately – fires spread quickly! Well, now the National Trust has installed ‘electronic noses’ on a Yorkshire Moor to ‘sniff’ out wildfires. The electronic sensors will detect changes in the air at the very start...

 Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone … The earth takes shape like clay under a seal; its features stand out like those of a garment…...

Andrew, whose feast day ends the Christian year on 30th November, is probably best known to us as the patron saint of Scotland, though his only connection with the country is that some of his bones were reputedly transported in the 8th century to Fife and preserved at a church in a place now named...

** Died in the services Little Alex was staring up at the large brass plaque that hung on the side wall of the church.  The plaque was covered with names, and it seemed to fascinate the seven-year-old. “All those names,” he said to the minister. “Who are they?” “Well, they were people who used to...

Sundays of the Month Editor:  Continuing our new feature, as we thought you might find it helpful to know what the Sundays of each month are called… 1st October      Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity 8th October     Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity 15th October   Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity 22nd October   Last Sunday after Trinity 29th October   Fourth Sunday...

St Francis (1181 – 1226) is surely one of the most attractive and best-loved of all the saints.  But he began by being anything but a saint.  Born the son of a wealthy cloth-merchant of Assisi, Francis’ youth was spent in fast-living, parties and on fast horses as a leader of the young society of...

This month is the 501th anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation, and so a good time to pay tribute to an outstanding English scholar, translator and martyr of the Reformation. William Tyndale (c. 1494 – 6th October 1536) was born near Gloucester, and studied at Oxford and Cambridge.  He could speak seven languages, and...

Demetrius of Sirmium should be the patron saint of anyone who takes a stand for the right, despite knowing they will suffer for it. Demetrius was a soldier from Serbia in the fourth century.  He fought for the Roman Emperor, and that took courage.  Then Demetrius converted to Christianity – and took his stand with...