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Every summer the C of E ordains its new deacons and priests. The services are traditionally held during Petertide (29th June), a feast day that remembers the martyrdom of Saint Peter. He was the fisherman who became a devoted disciple of Jesus, and who then went on to be an instrumental figure in the early...

From The Rectory St James the Least of All My dear Nephew Darren Much against my better judgement, after a recent series of small thefts, we have installed security cameras here at St James the Least of All. Thank goodness the suggestion for trip wires that opened the gate to Mrs Poppleroy’s garden next door,...

 Two thirds of all Gen Z drivers (aged 18-to-28 years old) have asked their parents or friends to park their car for them.  96% admit they are anxious about parallel or reverse parking. This compares to 28 per cent of Generation X (aged 45 to 60) who have asked for help in parking, and 14...

In the 19th century John Bowes, the 10th Earl of Strathmore, built a museum in the  French style, with landscaped gardens, at Barnard Castle in Teesdale. He bequeathed it 800 paintings, including a previously unknown Van Dyck. But visitors to the Bowes Museum often make a beeline for its amazing 18th century silver swan automaton....

Raw sewage continues to pour into our rivers and lakes. Water pollution is up by a third, with some 2,487 incidents recorded in the last year alone. Last year, although firms were given an Environment Agency (EA) target of 40 per cent reduction in pollution incidents, instead such incidents rose by 30 per cent more....

Why aren’t dinosaurs in the Bible? The Bible wasn’t written to list all the animals on earth or tell us about science. It was written a long time before people started to use science to learn about the world. When the Bible was written, people didn’t even have a word for dinosaurs yet! But it’s...

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Sundays of the Month 4th        3rd Sunday of Easter 11th      4th Sunday of Easter 18th      5th Sunday of Easter 26th      6th Sunday of Easter Editor:  As the Church’s year does not change, much of this material has appeared before.  The item on John Calvin is new. 1                      May Day 1                     ...

May is the month when the ancient pagans used to get up to ‘all sorts’! The Romans held their festival to honour the mother-goddess Maia, goddess of nature and growth. (May is named after her.) The early Celts celebrated the feast of Beltane, in honour of the sun god, Beli. For centuries in ‘Olde England’...

One thing for sure:  the apostles were not self-obsessed. In fact, many a church historian has wished that they had left us just a few more personal details about themselves in the New Testament. James the Less is an excellent example. This is the name we give to James the son of Alphaeus, but beyond...

Is there someone in church whom you respect for their spirituality and common sense combined? Someone you feel easy about approaching to ask questions? That person’s patron saint should be Philip. Philip came from Bethsaida and was a disciple of Jesus from early on. He knew how to lead others to Jesus; he brought Nathanael...

This is the name behind the Athanasian Creed. Athanasius (296-373) was born into a prosperous family in Alexandria in Egypt, studied in the Christian school there and entered the ministry. He was twenty-nine years old when he accompanied Alexander, the bishop of Alexandria, to the Church’s first ecumenical Council, at Nicaea in 325. Although Athanasius...