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If your Christmas and New Year break included just too many people and even a bout of indigestion, then St Antony may be the saint for you.  He was a hermit-monk with a reputation for making poorly people feel better. Antony was born in Coma (Upper Egypt) in 251, and at 20 became an ascetic. ...

January gets its name from the Roman god Janus, the god of beginnings and transitions, of gates and doorways. Traditionally Janus had two faces, one looking to the past and one to the future. It reminds us that as we start a new year we can look back to the past with gratitude and to...

World Leprosy Day aims to raise awareness and knowledge of this horrific disease.  The good news is that nowadays, it can in fact be cured, and so it is vital to change attitudes that stigmatise the people affected. Many churches and groups across the country will hold their own local Leprosy Sunday sometime between 26...

Traditional tea drinkers are becoming something of a dying breed, as ‘generation Z’ is opting more for herbal equivalents and coffee. In the year to May 2019, Britons drank 330 million fewer cups of black tea than they drank in 2018. So says a study by Unilever, which owns PG Tips. PG Tips recently lost...

Do you remember the start of term at school, when you were given new exercise books to write in? I loved the feel of those books that were still unworn and unspoilt.  I would try to write my name and the subject on the front page with my very best handwriting. This wasn’t easy, as...

Not many teenagers, on becoming a Christian, will devote themselves to winning others for Christ in a foreign land. Amy was such a person. She left Britain to live in a tiny village in Southern India. Here, for the next 56 years, Amy rescued hundreds of orphaned and vulnerable children, and served her Lord in...

If you are feeling hard up for money as the New Year begins, it may be worth checking your sofa.  It seems that there are still millions of old one-pound coins loose in our homes across the country. The Royal Mint has reassured people that they will still accept the old coins – just take...

Relationships, Sex and Health Education – now a Charter from C of E 100 years of serving Wales C of E’s Environment Group calls for greater church action on Climate Change First Baptist church awarded Church of Sanctuary status   C of E teaching document calls for repentance over antisemitism Former asylum seeker ordained as Kirk...

We are all familiar with the Queen’s New Year honours list, which celebrates peoples’ significant contributions in life. But what would God’s New Year honours list look like? Who are the people He chooses to honour? Psalm 1 gives us an answer to these questions. The person who is blessed by God is compared to...

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 became a monk at Reichenau (Switzerland).  In 829 he moved to Einsiedeln to be a hermit, where he lived quietly for...

If you go jogging, try this with your arms. It will feel strange and may look bizarre, but running with your arms straight will not slow you down. Research at Harvard University had found something expected: that when you walk with your arms straight, it is 11 per cent more oxygen efficient than if you...

Political parties often describe themselves as ‘broad churches’, by which they mean that they are able to accommodate widely differing views. The title was first applied to the Church of England, where some churches are so ‘Catholic’ that they would make the Pope himself feel like a Protestant, and where the noisiest and most exuberant...