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The current fashionable middle-class lifestyle trend of cold-water swimming is putting thousands of new converts in danger, as they swim in cold water for longer than their bodies can take. One lido in London recently reported that they were having to deal with cases of hypothermia every day, as some people insisted on staying in...

Could you help support Christians in Central Asia this winter?  As most of them are converts from Islam, they have been rejected by their relatives and community, and are struggling to survive the bitter winter weather. As Azamat, a church deacon in Central Asia explains, he works in a factory, but the wages are so...

Never under-estimate a deacon. After all, the first-ever Christian martyr was a deacon in the church of Jerusalem – St Stephen.  And the first-ever Christian martyr in Spain was a deacon of the Church of Saragossa – St Vincent. By now it was 304AD, and the Roman Emperor Diocletian was persecuting Christians.  When his edict...

A stressed mind can put your body at risk.  If you constantly think about negative things, and dwell on stressful events in your life, you could weaken your immune system and make yourself more susceptible to illness. A recent study has found that simply thinking about negative events, even if they are only imagined, can...

Learn your times tables. It seems that being able to multiply is a “basic building block for success in life.” So says the Schools Minister, as multiplication test results for hundreds of thousands of nine-year-olds were recently published for the first time. Nick Gibbs said that being able to recall any multiple up to 12...

With beginning a New Year in mind…  Sin has turned the world from a paradise into a thicket; there is no getting through without being scratched.  – T Boston God loves us; not because we are loveable but because He is love; not because he needs to receive but because He delights to give. –...

January is a month of the beginning of great things! As well as the naming of the Son of God, we celebrate the conversion of the greatest ever apostle of the Christian faith.  Many books have been written on Paul, and here is the briefest of introductions. He was a Jew, born as ‘Saul’ at...

New Year The New Year My plans for you A Prayer for Wisdom to redeem the time A Dressing Prayer Solitude No Coming to God without Christ A Prayer for Students ** Editor: As another whole year stretches out before us… New Year (Gal 3:29, Mt 28:20) Jesus, Heir of the promise, Hope of the...

Money can be a sensitive subject in church, especially when it comes to giving. Paul describes the support given by the Macedonians to the impoverished Christians in Jerusalem as evidence of the‘grace of giving’ (2 Corinthians 8:7). They were following the example of Jesus: ‘For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that...

A nightcap may make your sleepy at the beginning of the night, but the quality of your sleep will suffer. It seems that alcohol disrupts your sleep later in the night, and you get less rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, which makes you feel less rested when you wake up. During REM sleep, which should...

– as reports to churches increase The Church of England has revealed that there has been a 37% increase in reports of domestic abuse to diocesan safeguarding advisers over the past three years (2019-2021). These are reports relating to the work of the local church in its community, collected in a diocesan self-assessment audit. The...

The Rectory St James the Least of All My dear Nephew Darren I am sure I had warned you about church bells. They are simply not to everyone’s taste. And the idea of switching on your recorded bells – no matter how digitally enhanced – at midnight for an hour, in order to welcome in...