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Courage, vision and leadership are found in the most unlikely of places. Mary Slessor was born in December 1848 into a wretchedly poor family. Her father was an alcoholic who lost his job as a shoemaker. Mary was the second of seven children, and in 1859 they moved from Aberdeen into the fetid slums of...

If you have nothing much going for you, Antony Pucci (1819-92) should be your patron saint. He came from nowhere – a peasant family in Tuscany. He went nowhere – he spent his life as a parish priest in the Tuscan city of Viareggio. He was unattractive to look at.  He wasn’t good with words...

By John Prockter, Monarch, £8.99  Framed around 12 real-life sticking points in John Prockter’s life, this book offers us hope in a faithful God and a pathway through difficult times. John encourages us to engage with Scripture in a new and inspiring way, allowing Jesus to bring the freedom we all need to live our...

By Patrick Regan OBE, Monarch, £9.99 What do you do when life falls apart, and it feels as if God has left you? How do you keep going when your faith is rocked to the core? Sometimes things get so hard we’re not sure where God is – or what He’s up to. For Patrick there...

I keep hearing people say that 2020 was a ‘year like no other.’ Friends have been writing a special journal recording the year, so they can pass it on to their grandchildren. Others just want to leave 2020 behind and look to a happier new year. Both reactions are completely understandable. But I’ve been looking...

Heroes are not always men or women of action. Sometimes the fight for right over wrong can be even more powerful when done through words and argument. Hilary was such a champion of the Christian faith. Born into a wealthy pagan family in Poitiers in 315, he first became an orator of Neo-Platonism. Here he...

What do you do when you find a large spider web in your house? If you ever feel some sympathy for the spider who went to all that trouble, then Felix is a good patron saint for you. He was saved by such a spider, spinning such a web. Felix had been born to a...

Epiphany for today From the Vicar Overcoming Disappointment Where do we go from here? How many more waves? Struggling towards relinquishment (Part Three) ** Editor:  Canon Paul Hardingham finds the wise men’s gifts to be of help to us now. Epiphany for today This month we celebrate Epiphany, when we remember the Magi from the...

All in the month of January The first man to get stopped for speeding… Martin Luther and the Diet of Worms – 500 years on ‘Quarantine’ – the 2020 word of the year Beware what’s lurking in the water Climate change has increased disasters Holocaust Memorial Day calls for light in the darkness of today...

 Editor:  We apologise for the lack of many ‘news’ stories for January. This is due partly to Coronavirus, which has resulted in the cancellation of many usual events, and also to Christmas: all the current ‘news’ stories are focused on events happening at Christmas, and not in January! We must become a ‘simpler, humbler, bolder...

Editor:  If your church supports Tearfund, this may be of interest.

It was: 500 years ago, on 3rd January 1521 that German Protestant reformer Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Leo X after he refused to recant his writings. A few weeks later, on 23rd January, the Diet of Worms was called by the Holy Roman Empire and ran until 25th...