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The Fourth Gift Prayer for New Year 2021 HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021 As a New Year begins A New Year’s resolution-prayer ** The Fourth Gift The fourth gift they had was Wisdom, The one they needed for themselves And the world. Wisdom To leave the familiar In search of a new security More precious than...

Agnes should be the patron saint of all the young Christian girls alive today who live in areas of the world where they face kidnap, rape, forced marriage, persecution and even death – simply because they are Christian. Agnes, born c 291, probably came from a noble Roman family. She converted to Christianity at the...

‘We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.’ (Martin Luther King, Jr). During this current pandemic, one of the dominant emotions is disappointment. It comes out of our expectations of life, even as people of faith. The life story that we adopt for ourselves is that life should be long and healthy; we...

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Every river in England has chemicals in them. A recent waterways survey has found that agricultural, industrial and household pollutants now contaminate, to some extent, all of our surface water. It is a huge turnaround since 2016, when 97 per cent of our surface water was deemed to be free from chemicals. Using new Environment...

Here is an easy resolution for the New Year: open your windows at home for ‘short sharp bursts’ of 10 to 15 minutes at a time, several times a day. The government’s public information campaign says that regular fresh air can cut the risk of Covid transmission by more than 70 per cent. So, either...

The coronavirus pandemic has placed Christians who work in roles such as funeral directors, funeral celebrants, bereavement nurses and grief counsellors (like so many in the sector) under great pressure. Often, they are working alone or in small groups where they are the only believer. As a result, Transform Work UK has set up a Christian Support...

18th – 25th January This year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity has been prepared by the Monastic Community of Grandchamp in Switzerland. The theme, “Abide in my love and you shall bear much fruit”, is based on John 15:1-17 and expresses Grandchamp Community’s vocation to prayer, reconciliation and unity in the Church and the...

Never under-estimate a deacon. After all, the first-ever Christian martyr was a deacon in the church of Jerusalem – St Stephen.  And the first-ever Christian martyr in Spain was a deacon of the Church of Saragossa – St Vincent. By now it was 304AD, and the Roman Emperor Diocletian was persecuting Christians.  When his edict...

Perhaps this was a question the Wise Men asked after seeing the infant Jesus. They had come from a distant land to Jerusalem. They had followed a star and expected to see a royal child. Now in Bethlehem, they saw things differently. No doubt, Mary and Joseph shared with these men their recent experiences and...

Climate change is largely to blame for the huge rise in natural disasters between the years 2000 to 2019.  So says a recent report from the United Nations office for disaster risk reduction. It goes on to warn that the earth is rapidly becoming “uninhabitable” to millions of people worldwide. Three quarters of a billion...

I want to share a message of hope that Christians in the sciences around the world can bring to the church. Dr Francis Collins, who leads medical research in the US, spoke earlier in the pandemic about his faith and his hope in God to help us through this time. He expressed the grief that...