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 Church buildings come in all shapes and sizes, and yet they can all be traced back to one of three basic designs. They all have a Sanctuary which is the main altar or table area, and a Nave where the people stand or today, more usually sit.  (We thought about the nave last month.) The simplest...

There will always be fights within the Church. It is “inevitable”. So says the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby. “The Church is full of people, people are full of conflict, and so the Church is full of conflict”. But Justin Welby says he has learned that the Church need not shy away from this. Rather,...

 It was 125 years ago, on 11th August 1897, that Enid Blyton was born in East Dulwich, South London. This enormously popular British children’s writer created Noddy, the Famous Five, and the Secret Seven. She is among the world’s bestselling writers, selling more than 600 million copies of her books. Enid was the daughter of...

A prolonged drought in Ethiopia has killed untold numbers of livestock and brought millions of people to the brink of famine. And as the crisis escalates, more and more girls are at risk of child marriage. Tearfund has warned that Ethiopia now has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world, with an...

  The Barnabas Family Bible In Every Corner Sing – the Diary of a Country Vicar Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Dear Hebrews – a letter back from a place of pain Living Well as a Parent Out of the Black Shadows A Good Old Age – an A to Z of Loving and Following the...

Spare a thought for John the Baptist: however rough your local sandwich bar may be, it probably doesn’t serve you locusts with a honey dip; you won’t be imprisoned for saying derogatory things about the local MP’s wife, and even the boss from hell is unlikely to have a daughter who wants to hip-hop about...

When the sun is sizzling overhead, many of us fling wide our windows and even doors, in an effort to get a draught of air through our homes. But an NHS sleep consultant advises that, instead, people should keep their windows shut and their curtains drawn all day. “It’s all due to temperature differentials. As...

After the Bible, John Bunyan’s wonderful Christian allegory, the Pilgrim’s Progress, is one of the most celebrated and widely-read books in the English language.  It has been translated into more than one hundred languages around the world and keeps its place as a Christian classic. Names of people and places from its pages have been...

One in three reports by motorists using a pioneering app to gather information on modern slavery in hand car washes have indicated potential labour exploitation, according to recent figures. The Clewer Initiative’s Safe Car Wash App, which allows drivers to respond to a check list of key factors that may suggest modern slavery or labour...

The Slide Prayer for August What a world A Blessing Comes Morning Prayer Meditation on the Good Use of Sickness Transfiguration Sing hosanna! Praise! Jonah The hand of Christ ** Editor:  For anyone who is learning about trust in God…. The Slide As I watch She climbs the steps steadily, Holding the handrail, Her two-year-old...

Margaret Thatcher famously thrived on four hours a night. These days, 40 per cent of us struggle to nod off at all, while the hoped for ‘ideal’ is eight hours a night. But how much do we really need?  Recent research at the University of Cambridge and Shanghai’s Fudan University looked in depth at sleeping...