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England’s cathedrals continue to play a huge role in the worship, heritage, and civic life of the country according to the latest figures from the Church of England. In 2019, 1.3 million people attended services at cathedrals across the country and England’s cathedrals also attracted nearly 10 million visitors a year. In 2019, a weekly...

The more things change, the more they remain the same. You could read Meinrad’s story today in the newspapers of any large city. He was born near Wurtemberg of a free peasant family and he became a monk at Reichenau (Switzerland). In 829 he moved to Einsiedeln to be a hermit, where he lived quietly...

When Angie Godsell’s husband died she had an idea, which she says, “I couldn’t shake off.” She explained, “I sadly lost my husband, after a long illness with vascular dementia, at the end of February. I was looking for a way to commemorate his life, when I heard about the booklet – Hope in Uncertain...

The Cambridge Dictionary has named ‘quarantine’ as its ‘word of the year’ for 2020.  Apparently, it was the word most looked up between January and October of last year. ‘Quarantine’ even beat ‘pandemic’ and ‘lockdown’. The Cambridge Dictionary has now added a new meaning to the word ‘quarantine’.  It runs: ‘A general period of time...

Did you eat too much over Christmas? Or is that your lifestyle choice, year-round? Almost half of the world’s population will be overweight by 2050, if current eating trends continue, according to recent research. That means that more than four billion people could be overweight in just 30 years’ time, with 1.5 billion of them...

It is not just Covid-19 that makes other people want to avoid us. Up to three million people worldwide are living with leprosy, a disease that can separate sufferers from their loved ones for years. Someone is newly diagnosed with leprosy every two minutes, and millions of people suffer crippling deformities. Leprosy Mission was founded...

The Fourth Gift Prayer for New Year 2021 HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021 As a New Year begins A New Year’s resolution-prayer ** The Fourth Gift The fourth gift they had was Wisdom, The one they needed for themselves And the world. Wisdom To leave the familiar In search of a new security More precious than...

Agnes should be the patron saint of all the young Christian girls alive today who live in areas of the world where they face kidnap, rape, forced marriage, persecution and even death – simply because they are Christian. Agnes, born c 291, probably came from a noble Roman family. She converted to Christianity at the...

‘We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.’ (Martin Luther King, Jr). During this current pandemic, one of the dominant emotions is disappointment. It comes out of our expectations of life, even as people of faith. The life story that we adopt for ourselves is that life should be long and healthy; we...

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Every river in England has chemicals in them. A recent waterways survey has found that agricultural, industrial and household pollutants now contaminate, to some extent, all of our surface water. It is a huge turnaround since 2016, when 97 per cent of our surface water was deemed to be free from chemicals. Using new Environment...

Here is an easy resolution for the New Year: open your windows at home for ‘short sharp bursts’ of 10 to 15 minutes at a time, several times a day. The government’s public information campaign says that regular fresh air can cut the risk of Covid transmission by more than 70 per cent. So, either...