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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...

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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...

This month we celebrate Epiphany, when we remember the Magi from the East who followed a star to find the baby Jesus: ‘Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews?’ (Matthew 2:1). At the start of a New Year, amid the uncertainty of the pandemic, are we asking the same question?...

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

The momentous events of 2020 will have a “profound effect” on the future of the Church of England and our wider society, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York have said. In a recent joint address to the General Synod, Archbishops Justin Welby and Stephen Cottrell said the Church of England must adapt and put its...

It was 125 years ago, on 28th January 1896, that Walter Arnold of Kent became the first person in the world to be convicted of speeding. The speed limit was 2mph at the time, and a man carrying a red flag had to walk in front of the vehicle. But one day Mr Arnold took off...

Keep it in the family! Counting the cost of coronavirus Food, glorious food! Open that window Smokers stubbing out Plants in your front garden Doing housework can help you live longer Why parking your car is getting more difficult Who does the allotment in your family? ** Editor: David Pickup, a solicitor, considers what happens...

When St Paul wrote about the birth and humanity of Jesus to the Philippians, he described it as an emptying and a humbling. Jesus humbled Himself, he wrote, ‘and became obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.’ In obedience and love Jesus followed the will of His Father through His ministry...