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Editor:  How can your magazine help your church to celebrate Mothering Sunday this year?  We offer some ideas below: You might want to award some local prizes to your local mums who excel in different categories of being a mother.For example, who in your church family is: Mother with the most children Mother with the...

 the good-natured carer 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 when you need them, not fleeing with the cry...

The Coronation of the King and the Queen Consort will be held in Westminster Abbey on Saturday 6th May. It will be conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury. A Palace statement has said that it will “reflect the monarch’s role today and look towards the future while being rooted in longstanding traditions and pageantry.” Meanwhile,...

Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. (Psalm 51:77) People used to have an annual ‘Spring clean’ when they would clean the house from top to bottom. Perhaps it was a way of marking the new season or because the longer days and increasing...

Enslavement: Voices from the Archives, was recently opened to the public at Lambeth Palace Library, in central London, and will run until 31st March 2023. Items in the exhibition are from the library’s archives, which were studied in detail for research by the Church Commissioners for England into links to historic transatlantic chattel slavery. The...

Do you know any?  ‘Nones’ are people who, when asked what religion they belong to, say ‘None’. At the last Census in 2021, just over 50% of adults in England and Wales said they were ‘Nones’. Not all are atheists. More detailed delving by the research organisation Theos, revealed that 16% of Nones believe in reincarnation, 14%...

For the third year running, Marie Curie will lead the National Day of Reflection on Thursday 23rd March. It is a day for everyone to remember loved ones who have died, and to support people who are grieving. There will be a minute’s silence at noon, a nationwide network of Walls of Reflection, and a...

Archbishop of San Salvador, martyr 1980 Oscar Romero was a bit of a modern Thomas Becket – loyal to the authorities until he was given great responsibility for the Church. Then, like Becket, there was trouble. In Romero’s case, it all began when he was born Cuidad Barrios in El Salvador back in 1917. Devout...

Mothering Sunday is a day of mixed emotions. For many it’s a happy, joyous day, but for others it’s one of pain and grief. A day to celebrate love, while acknowledging those who cannot have children or have lost them and those who have no relationship with their mother. In the dying moments of His...

We take clean water for granted. After all, when did you last turn on the tap and expect filthy water to come out? But sadly, bad water is still a daily reality for billions of people. The United Nations wants to help them by ensuring that everyone can access clean water by 2030.  It is...

There’s bad news for vicars, priests and other church ministers in the latest results of a long-running research project. British people trust taxi drivers and restaurant staff more than clergy and priests to tell them the truth, according to the latest findings of an annual ‘Veracity Index.’ Just 55 per cent of people aged 16...

Cold water swimming may be popular for its claimed mental and physical health benefits, but it also comes with risks. Some people swim in the cold for longer than their bodies can take, and risk hypothermia. The Parliament Hill Lido in Hampstead has recently posted a warning to its swimmers, saying that some weeks it...