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Do you tend to avoid conflict?  When you feel stressed, do you crave sleep?  Then the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus would be good patron saints for you.  But – you may find it hard to copy their successful method of avoiding trouble! Legend has it that The Seven Sleepers were third century Christians who lived...

Reviews The Treasures of English Churches Walking through Winter The Lion Storyteller Book of Family Values Colouring Jesus Jesus: the unauthorized biography God’s Treasured Possession More>Trust – giving our dreams to the trustworthy One Breathing Under Water – Spirituality and the Twelve Steps The Space Between: the disruptive seasons we want to hide from Green...

The Church of England has published guidance for parishes and cathedrals amid concerns over memorials with links to slavery and other contested heritage. The new guidance enables churches and cathedrals to consider the history of the buildings and congregations, and to engage with everyone in their community to understand how physical artefacts may impact their...

Most of us have been in situations where we are not in control, and we don’t know how to feel or how to react to our situation. We need help. The most valuable gift you can have at those times – is time itself. Time to be ‘listened to’. Really listened to. But it is...

One in eight adults in the UK – that is about seven million of us – are at risk of problem gambling, according to a recent study by YouGov. While more than half of us bet money online or at events, 19 per cent of people were found to have at least one characteristic of...

I have had my walking boots for a few years now, and they have been faithful companions. We have walked many miles together during that time, on my daily walks as well as on holiday. They are partly responsible for my physical recovery after Covid-19, so they have a place in my heart. They fit...

There were an estimated 45,500 congregations or churches in the UK in 2020:  79%, in England, 8% (3,700 churches) in Wales, 8% (3,500 churches) in Scotland and 5% (2,100 churches) in Northern Ireland. New congregations are being started or having to close all the time, and in the fifteen years since 2005 it is estimated...

The first cloned mammal – Dolly the sheep – was born 25 years ago, on 5th July 1996, at the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh. The news was generally greeted with either direct opposition or considerable suspicion. Richard McCormick, a Jesuit priest and professor of Christian ethics at the University of Notre Dame, voiced the feelings of...

If you led a wild life before your conversion, then Olaf is the saint for you. Indeed, anything you have done could hardly match him, for he was a brigand and pirate who roamed the Baltic and Normandy around 1015 AD, maiming and killing, stealing and destroying, feared by all. Then on one particular raid...

The Difference When we feel shaken Prioritising Robin Mountains in the sky Sing to the Lord Reaching Out ** The Difference So often I can’t wear the right clothes, Speak the right words, Fit the right mould, Be the shape people want me to be, Expect me to be, Demand that I am, To conform....

It was 15 years ago, on 15th July 2006, that Twitter, the American micro-blogging social network, was launched. The first tweet – or short message – had been sent internally in March that year and was recently sold for over £2 million. The service was originally known as twttr (by analogy with the photo site...

Truth can come from a range of places. In Shakespeare, it’s the fool who often has the insight that the main characters lack. In the Old Testament, it’s the prophets that proclaim the truth from God’s perspective. Maybe today, we should be listening more to the comedians – to the people who stand back from...