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If you hate potholes, here is a statistic that will give you grim satisfaction: the combined depth of potholes in England is now 15 times that of the lowest point in the Grand Canyon.  Plus, a new pothole is reported every 43 seconds. In all, nearly 700,000 potholes were reported on the highways over the...

By Amy Scott Robinson, BRF, £8.99 As we look towards celebrating the incarnation at Christmas, we consider how God chose to express Himself, in a moment in history, as a tiny baby. But what other images describe God in the Bible, and what can we learn about his character through them? How does an invisible...

One of the most beautiful passages in Scripture is found in Isaiah 43: ‘…you are mine. When you pass through the waters I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you.  When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned…For I am the Lord,...

By Andrew Hartropp, IVP, £12.99 ‘The earth is the Lord’s’ (Ps.24:1). God states that He is the rightful owner of the earth and everything in it. God wants people to enjoy material things – but God must be the centre of our lives. Christ’s radical call to his followers includes the call to let Him...

The Bishop of Leeds, Nick Baines, the Church of England’s Lead Bishop for Foreign Affairs, has welcomed the appointment of Rehman Chishti MP as the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy for Freedom of Religion or Belief, succeeding Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon. Bishop Nick said:  “Everyone has an inherent right to profess any faith or none, yet...

“I was travelling, and out early in the morning: at first there was a vast fog; but, by the time that I was seven or eight miles from home towards the coast, the sun broke out into a delicate warm day. We were then on a large heath or common, and I could discern, as...

By Paul Hattaway, SPCK, £10.99 ‘In one six-week period in November and December, more than 400 church buildings were bulldozed to the ground …’ Zhejiang, a prosperous eastern province, is home to the highest percentage of Christians in China. This volume describes how God established His kingdom there, using a one-legged Scotsman to bring the...

The number of female clergy in the Church of England continues to rise with more women than men entering training for ordained ministry for the second year running, according to recently published statistics. More women, 54%, than men began training for ordained ministry in 2018, for the second year running. Just under a third, or...

By Martin Saunders, SPCK, £9.99 What makes a man?  The answer used to be easy. You chopped wood, you wrestled bears, and never showed an ounce of emotion. Today, thankfully, we’ve started leaving some of those ill-fitting gender stereotypes behind. But what replaces them? How do you make sense of masculinity in a world of mixed...

The Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly has recently passed a bill to criminalise religious conversion in the northern Indian state. The Bill intends to extend a law that was introduced in 2006 which criminalised conversion by ‘fraud,’ ‘force’ and ‘inducement,’ by adding ‘coercion’ to its terms. Inducement has also been redefined under the new bill as...

Whether you’re scared of Brexit or the EU – everything is temporary, says Tim Farron. Former leader of the Liberal Democrats and Christian politician, Tim Farron, has reminded people to live for “something even better” as both Brexit and the EU “will be in ruins at some point in the not too distant future”. Tim...

Expectant The rector of a church had just made the happy announcement that a member of the congregation was with child.  Then he reminisced a bit: ‘As far as I know, there have been no pregnancies in this church for years – until I arrived!’ ** Apostolic An old lady went to church and heard...