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The events of recent weeks have shone a spotlight on the history and legacy of the slave trade, prompting renewed reflection by many organisations in this country and across the world. The Church of England’s history in this regard is complex: marked both with pride in the role of William Wilberforce and others who led...

So says the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). The large-scale removal of peat from bog “is destroying one of our most precious wildlife habitats. It takes centuries for a peat bog to form with its special wildlife – modern machinery destroys it in days.”

A new campaign, Climate Sunday, has been launched by a coalition of churches and charities, as part of a call for action on climate change. From next month, 6th September, churches throughout the UK will be encouraged to have a Sunday dedicated to the theme of climate change. This could be held at any time...

This time last year, how well did you know your neighbours?  Around one in five of us have since admitted that we had never even spoken to them. What a difference a pandemic makes. Now twice as many of us have talked to our neighbours in the past week as compared with last year. A...

Many people over 70 in this country are becoming desperate.  They have been the sole carers for their loved one since lockdown, and they are struggling. In order to cope, large numbers of them have turned to antidepressants. The figures are eye-watering: during the pandemic this Spring, more than 1.4 million people aged over 70...

The hymn ‘Just As I Am’ must be one of the most famous in the world. It has been sung by tens of millions of Christians at Billy Graham Crusades the world over, just for starters! Yet it was not written by a professional who was ‘aiming’ at a specific market, as many songs seem...

Churches across the UK have been finding different ways to worship God, care for their communities, and express their faith during this unprecedented pandemic – and many of them have turned to the Christian agency CPO to provide specific resources to help. The company’s website offers a wide variety of posters and digital downloads reminding...

After the Bible, John Bunyan’s wonderful Christian allegory, the Pilgrim’s Progress, is one of the most celebrated and widely-read books in the English language.  It has been translated into more than one hundred languages around the world and keeps its place as a Christian classic. Names of people and places from its pages have been...

At this time of year we enjoy the fruits of our gardens, fields and hedgerows: vegetables ripen, crops are harvested, and berries begin to show bright among the leaves. Much of this growth started with a few seeds in spring: the miracle of life coming from small dead-looking things. There is a league table of...

A number of aid agencies have reacted with anger to the recent government decision to merge the Department for International Development and the Foreign Office in September. The new government department will be called: The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. It will be led by the Foreign Secretary. The Government remains committed to the target...

I recall when I was 14 years old going to stay on my own with my French cousins in the South of France, for three weeks during the summer holidays.  It was a brilliant time which I thoroughly enjoyed.  There was a sense of ‘freedom’ being away from close family and the ability to ride...

Ironically, lockdown actually saved a number of lives. Recent five-year averages have revealed that the death rates for young men aged 20 to 24 plummeted by more than 30 percent this spring. Of course, mortality rates across the population rise steadily with age, but there is normally a significant spike for younger men. But it...