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Under lockdown, millions of us who rarely walked around our immediate locality are now well acquainted with every nearby driveway, every crack in the pavement, and every pothole in the road. We have developed views on our neighbours’ gardens, on their oddly coloured garage doors, and on their dogs, children and cars. If we go...

Rupert is the saint for you if you like The Sound of Music – or salt with your food! Rupert (d c 710) was bishop of Worms and Salzburg, and it was he who founded the great monastery of St Peter in Salzburg in the eighth century, thus firmly establishing Christianity in that city. True,...

Thousands of BBC local radio listeners across England recently tuned in to an unusual sporting-themed church service. It wasn’t broadcast from a typical place of worship, a church or a cathedral, but from Wycombe Wanderers FC – a football club in the Championship, the second rung of English soccer. Four of the team’s leading players...

I believe there were two key elements to gathered worship. The first is that there should be a welcome for everyone. The second I’d like to propose is that gathered worship is absolutely concentrated on enabling and allowing our hearts and souls to be closer to the God whom we are worshipping. In other words, whatever takes places,...

‘Do not let this Book …depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night … be careful to do everything written in it.  Then you will be … successful.’ (Joshua 1.8) Any flying instructor will tell you that aeroplanes need to be ‘trimmed’ or ‘balanced in flight’ on a regular basis.  After flying through...

Joyce Grenfell wrote a wonderful song, Joyful Noise, about three lady choristers: Miss Clissold, Miss Truss and Ivy Trembley. Their greatest delight was to sing in an oratorio at the Royal Albert Hall. ‘It may be like a gasworks with a green-house roof above it, and it may lack convenience, but all the same we...

At least 13 people have been killed in a recent suicide bomb attack in the predominantly Christian region of Mozogo, in Far North Cameroon, after armed militants raided the community. The attack, thought to be perpetrated by Boko Haram, was by militants wielding machetes and firing guns into the air. As panicked villagers fled, a...

When a grieving family came to see the Bishop of St Albans, the encounter sparked a campaign that could transform the role of gambling in British public life. Church of England bishop Alan Smith was deeply impacted by the visit from a family whose son had taken his life because of his struggle with problem...

You’d think that the real-life pandemic would be frightening enough, but instead apocalyptic films on streaming services have soared in popularity this past year. And it seems that people who enjoy movies about zombies, alien invasions and apocalyptic pandemics may even be coping better than most of us. A recent study published in the journal...

Jesus at the gates of Jerusalem Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday, when the Church remembers how Jesus arrived at the gates of Jerusalem just a few days before the Passover was due to be held. He was the Messiah come to His own people in their capital city, and yet He came in humility,...

Two hundred years ago, on 19th March 1821, Sir Richard Burton, British explorer, writer and translator, was born in Torquay. He was noted for his unexpurgated translations of The Arabian Nights and the Kama Sutra, but his interests were much wider. He was a scholar, a diplomat, a spy and an Orientalist, and the first...

 Christian festival Spring Harvest has axed its 2021 in-person events, saying it is “no longer viable or responsible” to host the gatherings at their flagship Butlins locations. Spring Harvest continues to plan for events in 2022. But in the meantime, Spring Harvest Home 2021, the online event which has already been months in the planning, is...