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The Methodist Church has launched a Year of Prayer online to help bring more people to faith. The short weekly online service takes place each Tuesday lunchtime, at 12.45pm via Zoom, and is also live- streamed via Facebook. It will be led by people from across the Church. Trey Hall, Director of Evangelism and Growth...

If you have done your best to live ‘right’, and still had nothing but trouble and heartache in your life, Alphonsus is the saint for you.   He was born in 1533, the son of a wool merchant in Segovia.  He followed his father into the profession, married, and had two children.   He was a responsible...

How dangerous is it to sing in church, when it comes to spreading coronavirus? About the same as it is to speak loudly in a pub. So say researchers at the University of Bristol. They have found that speaking loudly and singing generate about the same amounts of aerosol droplet – tiny particles of liquid...

By Melvin Tinker, Evangelical Press, £7.99 This book is a ‘wakeup call’ as to what has been happening in our Western culture for the last few decades, due to the influence of what is identified as ‘cultural Marxism’ or ‘Critical Theory’.  It helps explain why much of the Judeo-Christian foundations of the West have been eroded, while the Church...

The RSPCA has been overwhelmed this year by calls for help from people who are ill with Covid-19. The animal welfare charity was swamped with 442,344 calls, and responded to 106,676 incidents of animals in need just between 24th March and 5th August. That averaged out at 790 incidents a day. Such a volume of...

I confess, I am a petrolhead. I don’t have the dosh to buy the cars that truly quicken the pulse, but buying and selling at the tragic end of the market as I do, I get a lot of pleasure from cars with toys – rear view cameras, wing mirrors which fold in when you...

If you are helping others at this time, remember to still leave space and time for yourself. Going the extra mile for other people all the time will only ensure one thing; your collapse. Work in teams. Even the Good Samaritan did not attempt to help the injured man all on his own; he brought...

On 4th October we give thanks for one of the most loved saints in the church – Francis of Assisi. He died in 1226, but his example and witness have lived on to inspire Christians through the centuries. His was a life focused on the crib and the cross, Lady Poverty and the stigmata, suffering...

So says the Children’s Society in its recent Good Childhood Report, an annual consideration of childhood in the UK. The Church of England charity found that 15-year olds in the UK score lower levels of life satisfaction than those in 24 other European countries. Levels of poverty, a lack of close friendships and pressure in...

This year’s Green Health Awards were just one of many activities to be cancelled because of the current situation. Whilst churches have been closed their gardens have continued to grow and many of these will have been used for therapeutic gardening. But have these been growing wild or have enthusiasts found ways round the rules...

Modern Halloween celebrations have their roots with the Celtic peoples of pre-Christian times. In those long-ago days, on the last night of October, the Celts celebrated the Festival of Samhain, or ‘Summer’s End’.  The priests, or Druids, performed ceremonies to thank and honour the sun.  For there was a very dark side to all this:...

A spirit guest? Moses revisited Ten Commandments Sorry The language of church-going Noah and the Ark – 2020 version New York Prayer for the sick Learning from the young Telling the time Where? Home Aliens Put it this way… ** A spirit guest? When new neighbours moved in next door, they held a House Warming...