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Editor:  Welcome to our new WEEKLY news update, to help you keep up to date with the latest stories from the National Churches. These will be suitable for use on your church website this weekend, as well as your magazine. First online prison church service to be broadcast by Church of England Faith leaders make...

Editor:   Kings and mystics, writers and martyrs – August does well with its feast days that remember outstanding Christians. 1          Ethelwold – Saint of Wessex 4          Sithney – mad dogs 5          Oswald – a king with faith, courage and humility 6          The Transfiguration of our Lord 7          Cajetan – pawnshops 8          Dominic – learning...

The Slide Meditation on the Good Use of Sickness The Chief Purpose of Man The Lockdown Lifts Shadows and gravestones Morning Prayer Lord of the mountains ** 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 feet following...

All in the month of August Atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki Whatever happened to Christopher Robin? 125 years of the Proms in London The stately Rosebay Willowherb Support your local charity shops Good news about potholes Watch out for this predator Concern for the children Please, please, stop buying compost with peat in it ...

St Ethelwold (c.912 – 84) did great things for the church at Winchester, which in those days was the principle town of Wessex.   He began as a simple monk, eager to restore the Rule of Benedictine in England, a major reform for the church of the time.  So, after serving at the abbey in Glastonbury,...

It was: 250 years ago, on 22nd August 1770 that British explorer Captain James Cook discovered eastern Australia, named it New South Wales, and claimed it for Britain. 150 years ago, on 4th August 1870 that the British Red Cross Society was founded. 125 years ago, on 10th August 1895 that the Proms (Promenade Concerts)...

You know how some men find women’s interest in romance and clothes hard to cope with?   Well, Sithney (or Sezni) should be the patron saint of all such men. According to a Breton folk legend, Sithney was a hermit of long ago, minding his own business, when one day God told him that he was...

Many Christians have dreamed of doing something spectacular for God, which would be remembered for centuries afterwards. Oswald, who lived from 605 to 642AD, was in a position to do so. He was a King, whose father, Aethelfrith, was a great warrior who laid the foundations of the great kingdom of Northumbria. But Aethelfrith was...

The story is told in Matthew (17:1-9), Mark (9:1-9) and Luke (9:28-36). It was a time when Jesus’ ministry was popular, when people were seeking Him out.  But on this day, He made time to take Peter, James and John, His closest disciples, up a high mountain.  In the fourth century, Cyrillic of Jerusalem identified...

Atomic bombs were dropped over two Japanese cities 75 years ago. This first was at Hiroshima, on 6th August 1945, when the centre of the city was totally destroyed, and 80,000 people were killed immediately.  A further 60,000 died by the end of the year.  It was the first city in history to be hit...

Bit short of cash for your holiday this year?  Cajetan (1480 – 1547) should be the patron saint of anyone who needs some extra money – right now.  For it was he who founded the Monts de Piete – the pawnshops – in the 16th century.  They were first designed to help people through a...

Godbothering A Call Less Ordinary – why your purpose matters What Good is God? – crises, faith and resilience Traidcraft – inspiring a Fair Trade Revolution Thank God for Bedtime – what God says about our sleep and why sleep matters Where is God in a Messed-Up World? ** Godbothering By Rhidian Brook, SPCK, £9.99...