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We have all known that awkward moment at a party, when your conversation with a stranger suddenly dries up. But if you are going to one of the King’s Coronation street parties next month, you don’t need to worry. An information pack called the Coronation Big Lunch ‘conversation menu’ has been published, offering 14 handy...

New safeguarding data from a three-year period has recently been published by the Church of England. The data is for new concerns reported to the Church in 2019, 2020 and 2021, and relates to all its work. The reports range from concerns about possible risk to direct allegations of abuse. Over the three-year period, the...

-the long-suffering servant girl of Lucca If you have ever been in trouble for simply doing good, then Zita is the saint for you.  Born in 1218 to poor but devout parents in Monsagrati, Zita was sent at the age of 12 to work as a servant for the rich Fatinelli family in nearby Lucca....

Scientists believe they may have discovered what happens to a great deal of the plastic that is dumped in the ocean. The mystery has been that while about 14 million tonnes end up in marine environments each year, only about one per cent of that is ever found in sampling surveys. While much of the...

** Sea of Galilee A vicar planning an Easter pilgrimage to the Holy Land was shaken when he found it would cost him £50 an hour to rent a boat on the Sea of Galilee. He protested to the travel agent that the cost was ridiculous. “That might be true,” replied the travel agent, “but...

In the 17th century the name Arcadia evoked an earthly paradise that was celebrated in art and literature as an idyllic place of peace and harmony where humanity and nature were at one. To live in such beautiful surroundings was to find heaven on earth. We often have that feeling when we are out in...

– missionary and martyr in the South Pacific 1841 Many of us can show great dedication in pursuit of a career that will bring us a good salary or position. Peter Chanel should be the patron saint of anyone who shows quiet determination in doing what they believe to be God’s call upon their life;...

 A new study has found that people who do ‘all-nighters’ for work or study are stressing their brains. Sleep deprivation makes your brain look, and work, like it is two years older. The good news is that getting just even three hours of sleep is enough to keep it normal. And also, the study by...

The Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice has released the second of its biannual Racial Justice reports. Mandated to drive ‘significant cultural and structural change on issues of racial justice within the Church of England’, the Archbishops’ Commission’s job is to support the implementation of the 47 recommendations of the Archbishops’ Anti-Racism Taskforce Lord Boateng has...

By the time a child born today becomes an adult, they may be able to see fewer than half the stars that are currently visible. This is not because the stars are fading, but because of ever increasing ‘skyglow’, or light pollution, which is brightening the night sky by 9.6pc on average each year. So...

If you like church bells, you will be pleased to hear that there is now an ‘official’ Bell Sunday – this year to be held on 14th May. It will be held each year on the Sunday closest to 19th May. That is because 19th May is the feast day of St Dunstan, who way...

This month we are looking at the practice of confession. ‘If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.’ (1 John 1:9). Confession enables us to enter fully into God’s grace, as we are assured of forgiveness for our sin and shame....