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Discipleship: Start This Way: Beginning to live as an everyday Christian disciple Raised Forever – Jesus’ resurrection and ours Would you like to know about God Making the Most of Your Church Wedding God, AI and the End of History – The Exiled Church – Reckoning with secular culture ** Discipleship: Start This Way: Beginning...

Counting steps has, for many of us, become a part of our lives. We feel triumphant when we hit 10,000, and guilty when we notch up less than 2,000 a day. But daily steps, which are really no more than regular daily exercise, are not just a gimmick. Medical research has found that your daily...

So says a coroner, following a spate of four deaths caused by drivers who, in one case, could barely see his own steering wheel. Dr James Adeley, the senior coroner for Lancashire, has said that letting motorists self-certify their fitness to drive is the ‘laxest system in Europe’, and is highly ineffective. And, until it...

Our next hymn A visiting minister, seeing the list of hymns chosen for the Sunday service, sent a message to the organist to say that the last hymn (519) did not suit his sermon, and so he wanted it replaced by 213. The organist’s message replied: ‘In this church the organist chooses the hymns and...

A recent study has found that as many as one in three teenage girls do NOT feel safe in school, which is a significant increase since lockdown. What is called ‘declining emotional engagement’ among secondary school girls has become a ‘pressing issue’ for the English school system, says a report carried out by the International...

St Peter, ‘the Rock’ The two most famous apostles are remembered this month, for they share a feast day. St Peter (d. c. 64AD), originally called Simon, was a married fisherman from Bethsaida, near the Sea of Galilee. He met Jesus through his brother, Andrew. Jesus gave him the name of Cephas (Peter) which means...

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One great phrase of the Church of England, which is little-known but carries a wealth of rich meaning, is ‘ordinary time’. While the seasons of Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Pentecost and Advent all have their fixtures and moments for focus and concentration, the bulk of the summer months is ‘ordinary time’!  A very evocative phase – nothing...

The Church Commissioners for England has agreed a fresh lease with Butterfly Conservation at Magdalen Hill Down, a nature reserve on the edge of Winchester in the South Downs National Park. For more than three decades, the Church Commissioners for England has supported Butterfly Conservation’s efforts to boost butterfly species in this, England’s newest national...

Did you know there are those who will never have the chance to meet a Christian? Malika is one of them. She rarely has a proper meal, or the chance to go to school. Life is hard. She knows what her parents expect of her. She knows the rules that they’ve told her come from...

‘Dead Ringer’ is the odd phrase we use when referring to someone who looks like somebody else. Sometimes, instead, we say ‘spitting image’ when we see a likeness or similarity between one person and another. This month includes Fathers’ Day (15th June) and is an occasion when dads are particularly remembered by their children.  As...

The House of Bishops has issued a formal response to the Independent Reviewer’s report on the submission from WATCH (Women and the Church), regarding the appointment of diocesan bishops who do not ordain women as priests. The House reaffirmed that “the flourishing of women as priests and bishops is integral to the outworking of the Declaration and...