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All in the month of July The NHS – bearing one another’s burdens The crash that killed off Concorde The man who created Sherlock Holmes When the Pope was declared to be infallible Remembering the man who founded Barnardo’s Buttercups – treasure in our countryside Does the fruit you buy look a bit wonky? ‘Safe...

As saints’ days do not change from year to year, most of these have appeared on this site before.  The one with an asterisk is new this year. For the first half of each year (Advent to Whitsuntide) our focus is on what God has done for man, particularly through sending us Jesus Christ.  But...

It was: 175 years ago, on 4th July 1845 that Thomas Barnardo, Irish humanitarian and philanthropist was born. He founded Barnardo’s, a charity which cares for vulnerable children and young people. Also 175 years ago, on 17th July 1845 that Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, British Prime Minister (1830-34) died. Earl Grey tea was named...

“Save the NHS” was the slogan chosen by the British government when the coronavirus began to spread.  Meant to evoke public compassion, and compliance with emergency regulations, it sounded as though the NHS was an endangered species.  In fact it was the public themselves whose lives were in jeopardy; the National Health Service existed solely...

New Archbishop of York to be confirmed Gardening Against the Odds? The Coronavirus, Church & You Survey Online book of remembrance opened at St Paul’s Online ‘Talking Jesus’ course FREE during the Covid-19 lockdown Use your old clothes to help others in poverty House of Bishops backs phased approach to revising access to church buildings Praying...

Churches soon to lose a friend in the media? Lockdown in Bethlehem Under-fives key to significant church growth C of E has been ‘astonishingly present’ Coronavirus and local churches Reflected Faith Series:  a ‘Holding Cross’ Lebanese Christians suffering from lockdown The reasons for going to church ** Editor: by Peter Crumpler, a Church of England...

If you are thinking of turning your back on wealth and privilege, in order to do something you feel God is calling you to do, St Theobald (1017 – 1066) may be the saint for you.   He was born into an aristocratic family at Provins in France.  But he became a hermit with a fellow...

It was 20 years ago, on 25th July 2000, that an Air France Concorde crashed outside Paris after taking off for New York. All 109 people on board were killed, as well as four people on the ground. The plane was a charter flight from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris to New York, and...

Bishop Stephen Geoffrey Cottrell will be confirmed as the 98th Archbishop of York this month. The service, at 11am on Thursday 9th July, will be broadcast entirely via video conference due to the Coronavirus restrictions. The service, which had been due to take place in York Minster, will be in two parts. A legal ceremony...

Do you ever admire relief workers?  Those hardy folk who regularly appear on our TV screens, actively seeking out the disease-ridden, starving, destitute people of the world, instead of avoiding them, as most of us try and do. John Francis Regis (1597 – 1640) could be a patron saint of relief workers.  It all began...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the multi-talented writer who created Sherlock Holmes, the world’s most famous detective, died 90 years ago, on 7th July 1930 at his home in Sussex, probably of a heart attack. He was 71. He had been born in Edinburgh to a prosperous Irish-Catholic family with a dysfunctional father and a loving mother...

Thomas, one of Jesus’ 12 apostles, was an impulsive, confused, honest sceptic.  Jesus could understand and work with such a man.  Thomas’ impulsiveness was evident when Jesus prepared to visit Lazarus in Bethany.  It was a dangerous trip to make, because of the Jews, but Thomas urged his fellow disciples: “Let us also go, that...