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‘Do not let this Book …depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night,…be careful to do everything written in it.  Then you will be …successful.’  Joshua 1:8 Any flying instructor will tell you that aeroplanes need to be ‘trimmed’ or ‘balanced in flight’ on a regular basis. After flying through storms and hitting...

** If biblical headlines were written by today’s secular media On Red Sea crossing:   WETLANDS TRAMPLED IN LABOR STRIKE Pursuing environmentalists killed On David vs. Goliath: HATE CRIME KILLS BELOVED CHAMPION Psychologist questions influence of rock On Elijah on Mt. Carmel: FIRE SENDS RELIGIOUS RIGHT EXTREMIST INTO FRENZY 400 killed On the birth of Christ:...

The first land crossing of Antarctica was completed 65 years ago, on 2nd March 1958, by the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by Vivian Fuchs. The team of 12 men travelled 2,158 miles from Shackleton Base to Scott Base (via the South Pole) in 99 days, using six vehicles. The journey – nearly 22 miles a...

On 19th March most churches will celebrate their ‘mothers’. £millions will be spent on Mother’s Day gifts and cards, and children will give flowers to women in church. It’s a joy to honour mothers for their love and caring, but our blessings are lessened when we forget the Day’s original purpose. The Mother’s Day we...

Church Edit, part of the UK’s leading Christian software company, celebrates a major milestone this year as it reaches 20 years since they started their church website builder. The founder, Kyle Cottington, was re-designing his local church’s website back in 2002 and saw the importance that the internet would bring to the church and how...

Editor:  With the patron saints of Wales (David) and Ireland (Patrick) in mind….  Be joyful, and keep your faith and your creed. Do the little things that you have seen me do and heard about. I will walk the path that our fathers have trod before us. –  St David I bind unto myself today...

Traidcraft PLC – a Christian group that has spent years campaigning for fair trade – has gone into administration. The stands were familiar to many churchgoers, with almost 3,000 churches in the country selling Traidcraft products at some point in their 40-year history. The brand cited the coronavirus pandemic, the war in Ukraine and soaring...

John Donne (1572 – 1631) was an English poet, scholar, soldier, secretary and finally Dean of St Pauls Cathedral in London. But he is most remembered for his poetry, for he is seen as the greatest of the 17th-century ‘metaphysical’ poets. Donne was born in 1572 into a Roman Catholic family in London at a...

More than 30 million children worldwide are suffering from “acute malnutrition” as the global food crisis persists into 2023. That’s according to international experts, who say that the 15 countries enduring the worst of the crisis are Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia,...

Litter pickers will be able to make about 20p per can or bottle from a new deposit scheme in England and Wales, according to an environment minister. From 2025, bottles and cans will include a deposit, likely to be 20p, that can be reclaimed when containers are returned to reverse vending machines at designated sites,...

In a remote village in Central America the word got out that one of the missionaries who had served their region for many years was about to return home because of her old age. The people decided to hold an event of ‘public appreciation’ for her. One very old and very poor man walked for...

Fifty years ago, on 8th March 1973, the citizens of Northern Ireland voted in a referendum to remain within the United Kingdom. That same day the IRA carried out its first bombing in Britain since World War II, planting car bombs in London. One person died, and about 200 were injured. Many nationalists and Roman...