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The Bishop of Durham believes that people should take local government more seriously. Speaking recently in the House of Lords, he said that too few people appreciate the important role that local government can play in addressing the issues that they most care about. Bishop Paul Butler said: “There is a feeling among the public,...

The Church Commissioners for England, which manages the Church of England’s £10.3bn endowment fund, has decided to exclude all remaining oil and gas majors from its portfolio, and will exclude all other companies primarily engaged in the exploration, production and refining of oil or gas, unless they are in genuine alignment with a 1.5°C pathway, by...

After St Paul, who was the most influential Christian writer ever?  St Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430), whose feast-day is on 28th August.  He lived and wrote in a time of social and spiritual chaos.  The Roman Empire was collapsing, the world was about to slide into the dark ages and the Church was...

“Be still and know that I am God” Psalm 46:10 Have you ever thought of taking some time out of daily life, to simply ‘be still’ with God? To hear His voice, enjoy His presence, and perhaps receive His direction for your future?  When one lady was told that her friend was “taking some time...

Spare a thought for John the Baptist: however rough your local sandwich bar may be, it probably doesn’t serve you locusts with a honey dip; you won’t be imprisoned for saying derogatory things about the local MP’s wife, and even the boss from hell is unlikely to have a daughter who wants to hip-hop about...

Christian Aid has been working “around the clock” with its partners in Ukraine to make sure fresh water supplies are reaching survivors, after the Nova Kakhovka dam was recently destroyed. It is also providing humanitarian supplies to people who are displaced across, or who had to leave, the affected areas of southern Ukraine. Iryna Dobrohorska, Chirstian...

The Church of England Pensions Board has recently announced its intention to disinvest from Shell plc and other oil and gas companies which are failing to show sufficient ambition to decarbonise in line with the aims of the Paris Agreement. The new investment restriction will apply to all oil and gas companies that do not...

Proposed details of the Church of England’s national Redress Scheme for survivors of Church-related abuse have recently been published. As we go to press, they were due to be presented and debated at the Church’s General Synod. It is hoped that legislation will progress through Synod in forthcoming sessions after which it will need Parliamentary...

After the Bible, John Bunyan’s wonderful Christian allegory, the Pilgrim’s Progress, is one of the most celebrated and widely-read books in the English language.  It has been translated into more than one hundred languages around the world and keeps its place as a Christian classic. Names of people and places from its pages have been...

More than 20.1 million people across Ethiopia are without the food they need to survive. They are in crisis because of the prolonged drought, caused by the failure of five rainy seasons. And because the land is now so dry, the recent brief rains only caused flash flooding, that destroyed more farmland and drought-weakened livestock. As...

Have you ever considered the abbreviation A.S.A.P. (As Soon As Possible)? Generally, it brings even more hurry and stress into our lives. Yet there is another way to think of A.S.A.P, a way which might help us deal with those difficult times in our daily lives. When there’s work to do, and deadlines to meet,...

** Editor:  Musings on the Christian walk Make sure it is God’s trumpet you are blowing – if it is only yours it won’t wake the dead, it will simply disturb the neighbours. – W Ian Thomas God does not keep office hours. –  A W Tozer When considering your future:  give God what’s right...