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A new ‘Net Zero Investment Framework’ provides the first-ever practical blueprint for investors to maximise the contribution they make in tackling climate change and achieving net zero emissions globally by 2050. The framework has been developed with over 70 global investors, representing more than USD 16tn in assets, including the Church of England Pensions Board. The initial...

By Stephen Poxon, Lion Hudson, £12.99 The year 2020 witnesses the 400th anniversary of the voyage made by the Pilgrim Fathers, who sailed from England to America on board the Mayflower. This epic excursion signalled one of the most significant episodes in Christian history, making as it did an enormous impact on the trajectory of...

The charity Barnabas Fund has thanked its supporters for their generous response to an emergency appeal that followed the disastrous explosion at the port in Lebanon on 4th August. It meant that Barnabas Fund was able to send more than £85,000 to help Christians in Beirut with food and the repair of their homes. As...

The charity Tearfund has moved fast to help people hit by the huge explosion in Lebanon on 4th August.  The country was already suffering beneath the weight of an economic crisis, growing food insecurity, and widespread poverty. Tearfund’s local partners have been distributing thousands of hot meals, as well as vouchers to enable those most...

Question: If it was the Church that finally decided which books should be included in the Bible, then isn’t the Church the top authority? Answer: No; the Bible produced the Church, not the Church the Bible. This is the real issue: what caused a book to be accepted within the ‘Canon’ of Scripture?  (Greek: kanon,...

Editor:  Some people make the world a better place for hundreds of thousands of others. By Tim Lenton.   The prison reformer and philanthropist Elizabeth Fry died 175 years ago, on 12th October 1845.  She was widely admired during her lifetime and after, and was depicted on the British £5 note between 2001 and 2016....

By Pamela Johnson, Authentic, £9.99 At a time of ethnic cleansing and military dictatorship, being a Christian in predominantly Buddhist Myanmar brought huge risks and danger. Yet despite persecution, one family chose to use the weapon of love to combat evil. ‘Though I Run Through the Valley’ tells the incredible story of three generations of...

Editor:  A significant cultural milestone was passed 100 years ago this month. By Tim Lenton.   A century ago, on 7th October 1920, Oxford University allowed women to become full members and study for full degrees for the first time, and the first 100 women were admitted. Women had been attending lectures, taking examinations and...

Dairy cows have serious competition these days: a third of young people are now opting for vegan milk instead. Recent data from the global market research firm, Mintel, has found that 23 per cent of Britons now use plant-based milk. It has become most popular among the 16 to 24-year-olds. Many millennials have switched to...

The Church of England and Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) have been awaiting updated guidance on singing in places of worship after findings of a Government-backed study were published. The research project, known as ‘PERFORM’, recently published its findings on measuring aerosol production from humans.  It measured singing, speaking and breathing in a zero-background...

‘Happy is the man who doesn’t give in and do wrong when he is tempted, for afterwards he will get …his reward.’  James 1:12 Are you facing a temptation of some sort? It is easy to think of it as a bad thing. But it can become a stepping-stone rather than a stumbling block.  Just...

You may have missed it at the time. The movie ‘Contagion’ didn’t make much of an impact when it was released for public viewing in 2011. Perhaps it was thought to be unrealistic. It was about a highly contagious, unknown virus, transmitted by an infected bat to a pig in a Chinese marketplace. From there it spread like...