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This month we celebrate Epiphany, when we remember the Magi from the East who followed a star to find the baby Jesus: ‘Where is He?’ (Matthew 2:1). At the start of a New Year, amid the uncertainty of the pandemic are we asking the same question? The gifts they offered show us how we can...

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...

Lockdown has led to the death of many of the hopes people have had…”but from a Christian point of view, there’s a deeper hope,” says Roger Bretherton, a clinical psychologist and university lecturer, who is one of the experts contributing to ‘The Wellbeing Journey’. This eight-part video series produced by HOPE Together and KingsGate Community...

Happy New Year! It’s good to begin a new year with hope, but few of us have left 2020 unscathed by the pandemic. For example, nearly half of us, 48 per cent, put on weight during lockdown.  (According to a recent survey by King’s College London and Ipsos MORI). Millions of us turned to alcohol...

Five hundred years ago, on 3rd January 1521, 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 May. This amusingly titled event...

Start children off on the way they should go….  Proverbs 22:6 Suppose you bought your child a football for Christmas. You all go outside to the garden, and in front of the family you show them how to score a goal. Then they have a go, but accidentally kick the new ball straight at your...

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...