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Timothy and Titus are the saints for you if you’ve been a Christian for some time, and now suspect that God wants you to move into some form of leadership.  A daunting prospect! The books of First and Second Timothy and Titus are what are known as the three pastoral letters, where Paul writes to...

The Met Office is considering whether to begin naming heatwaves, as they are becoming more dangerous. Naming them will make the public pay more attention to them, and take them more seriously. The Met Office says that as the climate warms, so heatwaves will become increasingly likely.  Since 2015, storms have been named in alphabetical...

** With Epiphany in mind… I was telling my three boys the story of the Nativity and how the Wise Men brought gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh for the infant Jesus. Clearly giving it a lot of thought, my six-year-old observed, “Mum, a Wise Woman would have brought nappies.” ** Cry Pharaoh! A visiting...

A few years ago, one of the Sunday magazines printed a Doom Directory. It surveyed the possible ways in which the world might come to an end – nuclear disaster, famine, global warming and so on. The cover showed a man bearing a placard, ‘The end of the world is at hand’: he was at...

Franklin Graham, the son of the late US evangelist Billy Graham, is to come to the UK this year for his God Loves Youmission. It was due to be held last year, but got postponed by the pandemic. The God Loves You Tour UK will visit Liverpool Exhibition Centre on 14th May, the ICC Wales...

With international concern about the welfare of children, Angela is a good saint to remember. Not only did she herself survive a harsh childhood, but she went on to dedicate her own life to helping children in need. Angela was born near Lake Garda, in Desenzano, where she was orphaned as a young child. The...

The National Trust is tired of cleaning up after your dog. It has now removed dog poo waste bins from their sites, to force dog walkers to take the poo bags home for disposal. The National Trust says that the waste bins are filling up faster than they can empty them, and that it costs...

More people join health and fitness centres each January than at any other time of the year. And well over half the newcomers will be gone again – within a month. Perhaps there’s not much commitment to begin with. Or maybe, they lack motivation because they haven’t made themselves accountable to a personal trainer. (One...

‘…and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.’ John 12:3 A story runs of how a lady was having tea outside a tea shop late one afternoon, when she became aware of a pleasant scent filling the air. She asked the waiter the source of the scent and was told that it...

If you enjoy listening to music, ever notice how the kind of music that you like changes throughout the day? According to research published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, our tastes over just one day will vary in preference to a perceived tempo, loudness, bounciness, and danceability. In late morning, we tend to...

Are you wondering about which charities to support this year? Does it matter to you if your money is used wisely or not? If so, then Maedoc of Ferns is the patron saint for you this month. He certainly knew how to deal with people who would waste his money. Maedoc (d 626) was born...

It was George Jennings, an English sanitary engineer and plumber, who in 1851 invented the first public flush toilets.  He said: “the civilisation of a people can be measured by their domestic and sanitary appliances.” Yet now, across the UK, public lavatories are in dismal and steep decline. The number of lavatories maintained by local...