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August is music festival time.  With that in mind… Music is one of the greatest gifts that God has given us: it is divine and therefore Satan is its enemy. For with its aid many dire temptations are overcome; the devil does not stay where music is. – Martin Luther Martin Luther… like Wesley, Rowland...

Most of us identify with the disciples’ request: ‘Lord, teach us to pray’ (Luke 11:1); having seen Jesus pray, they wanted to know how to pray! A Loving Relationship Jesus begins with father: ‘When you pray, say: Father’ (2). Prayer is like a child asking their parent for help. This reflects Jesus’ own intimate relationship...

One hundred years ago, on 9th August 1922, Philip Larkin, one of Britain’s most famous post-war poets, was born in Coventry. Often called “England’s other Poet Laureate”, he was also a distinguished librarian. He died in 1985. His first book of poetry was published in 1945, but he came to prominence in 1955 with the...

A handful of walnuts may help reduce your feelings of hunger. Walnuts are unique among nuts in that they are mainly comprised of polyunsaturated fats, which help decrease ghrelin, a hormone that increases hunger.  They also seem to increase peptide YY (PYY), a hormone that increases fullness or satiety. As appetite hormones play an important...

The Children’s Society is backing a campaign for guardians to be given to help unaccompanied children asylum seekers. As a spokesman explains, “After their long harrowing journeys to the UK, many children seeking safety arrive here alone. The only thing waiting for them is a difficult and draining immigration process. With nobody looking out for them, it’s tough.”...

After St Paul, who was the most influential Christian writer ever?  St Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430), whose feast-day is on 28th August.  He lived and wrote in a time of social and spiritual chaos.  The Roman Empire was collapsing, the world was about to slide into the dark ages and the Church was...

Editor:  We offer these classics, some of which you may have seen, but just in case you haven’t…  As you enjoy your children during the holidays, remember … You spend the first two years of their life teaching them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next 16 telling them to sit down and...

The Church Commissioners for England has learned from research it commissioned that Queen Anne’s Bounty, a predecessor fund of the Church Commissioners’ £10.1 billion endowment, had links with transatlantic chattel slavery. The Church Commissioners has said it is “deeply sorry for its predecessor fund’s links with transatlantic chattel slavery”. In the 18th century, Queen Anne’s...

All of the current Lords Spiritual have recently signed a letter to The Times voicing alarm about the Government’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. The Bishops wrote in their letter that “this policy should shame us as a nation.” They went on: “Our Christian heritage should inspire us to treat asylum seekers with...

Since the war broke out more than six months ago, Bible Society has been making the Bible available to soldiers as well as civilians in Ukraine. Recently, Serhii, the commander of a military unit, told Bible Society colleagues in Ukraine how vital the Bible is to his troops. He said, “It is very important for...

When Bradford was recently named the UK’s City of Culture for 2025, it had an immediate effect on the Bishop of Bradford, as well as the city. The Rt Revd Dr Toby Howarth said he could not remember ever “being hugged by so many as together, the realisation dawned that our trajectory as a city...

Adults sleep better together than they do alone. Of course, that may be hard to believe if your partner snores, sleepwalks or likes a different level of darkness and coolness in the bedroom. But a recent study at the University of Arizona has found that working-age adults who sleep with a partner fall asleep faster...