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Harvest Field Presence Veni Vidi Vici (He came, He saw, He conquered) Saint Michael O How Lovely The Robin Tear Here ** Harvest Field All around, confusion, All around, helplessness, People lost in the bad news of every day. Longing for purpose, Searching for security and significance Here in the white field of our generation....

It was: 500 years ago, from 20th Sept 1519 to 1522 that Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan led a Spanish expedition to the East Indies.  It became the first circumnavigation of the world. But Magellan was killed in a battle with natives in the Philippines in 1521. 125 years ago, on 1st Sept 1894 that the...

By Canon David Winter One of those surveys which some newspapers love to publish claimed recently that a large number of British people believe in angels – almost as many, in fact, as claimed to believe in God. They didn’t tell us what people meant by ‘angels’. I suspect quite a few were thinking of...

The Lambeth Conference, which begins next summer, must proclaim that Anglicans offer themselves as ‘bridge-builders’ to a world which needs peace and reconciliation. So says the Archbishop of Cape Town, Dr Thabo Makgoba, who chairs the conference’s design group.  “We are there for peace, to address some of the social needs.  We are there, in...

Five hundred years ago, on 20th September 1519, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan led a Spanish expedition to the East Indies that turned into the first circumnavigation of the world in 1522. Magellan was a minor Portuguese noble serving the crown until King Manuel I refused to support his bid to reach India by a new...

September is the time of year when we get back to normal routine after the summer break. It’s an opportunity to ask how God wants us to make the most of the time He gives us. Although we can’t always choose how we use our time, we can control our attitude towards it. How can...

All around, confusion, All around, helplessness, People lost in the bad news of every day. Longing for purpose, Searching for security and significance Here in the white field of our generation.   The harvest is still great, The workers are still few, But the Lord of the harvest Is the same Yesterday, today and forever,...

By Carolyn Nystrom, IVP, £3.99 Ask a woman about love and you are likely to hear about heartbreak. Ask about her identity, and shame and frustration leak out. Ask about rest and enjoyment, and you will hear laments about time and busyness. We live a small fraction of the life God has for us. The...

The origins of the iconic British retail chain Marks & Spencer (often known as M&S) were laid 125 years ago, on 28th September 1894, when Michael Marks, a Polish Jewish immigrant, acquired his first permanent stall in Leeds covered market and invited Thomas Spencer to become his business partner. Ten years earlier Marks had opened...

Expecting Him, my door was open wide: Then I looked round If any lack of service might be found, And saw Him at my side: How entered, by what secret stair, I know not, knowing only He was there. By TE Brown (1830 -97)

By Canon David Winter  What is an angel? Easy, people think: a shining figure with glorious wings, who appears from time to time to do some mighty work for God or bring a very special message from him. Well, that’s right in one sense (apart from the wings, which owe more to stained glass windows...

It was 65 years ago, on 29th September 1954, that CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) was established in Geneva, Switzerland.  It actually straddles the Swiss/French border. It originated from a vision by a small number of top scientists for a world-class physics research facility in Europe, partly to stop the brain drain to...