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And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge.  Ephesians 3:17-19 How can you describe the indescribable? How can you measure the...

 Three-quarters of toddlers are eating too much.  Their parents are feeding them ‘healthy’ fruit-based snacks which are in reality three-quarters sugar. A Public Health England (PHE) investigation has found that the market for baby ‘finger food’ such as dried fruit and oat bars, is rapidly expanding – we spent £100m on such products last year. ...

The General Synod of the Church of England has voted overwhelmingly in support of a new deal to co-ordinate and improve the approach to the care and well-being of clergy. Members voted to adopt a covenant committing parishes, dioceses and the wider church as well as individual clergy to sharing responsibility for the welfare of...

If you manage it only about once a month, you are not alone.  Nearly half of us are so busy with work and other commitments, that seeing family and friends has become a rare thing.  It is thought that an increase in social media is responsible for the decline in face-to-face interaction. But according to...

Are you increasingly blinded by headlight glare?  The rise in popularity of the ‘Chelsea Tractors’ and SUVs on our roads is not helping the problem.  In fact, more than half of us are finding that the problem is worse than even a year ago. A survey by the RAC has found that more than half...

Gambling rules in Northern Ireland could be brought into line with tighter standards in the rest of the UK, following an intervention by the Church of England. An amendment tabled in the House of Lords by the Bishop of St Albans, Alan Smith, opening the way for possible alignment in gambling regulation between Northern Ireland...

The General Synod has recently given its backing to further steps towards bringing the Church of England and the Methodist Church in Great Britain into communion with each other. Members voted in favour of starting work on drafting a series of texts including a formal declaration of a new relationship of communion between the two...

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Editor:   Kings and mystics, writers and martyrs – August does well with its feast days that remember outstanding Christians. Monica and Augustine are new this month. 1     Ethelwold – Saint of Wessex 4     Sithney – mad dogs 5     Oswald – a king with faith, courage and humility 6     The Transfiguration of our Lord 7 ...

St Ethelwold (c.912 – 84) did great things for the church at Winchester, which in those days was the principle town of Wessex.   He began as a simple monk, eager to restore the Rule of Benedictine in England, a major reform for the church of the time.  So, after serving at the abbey in Glastonbury,...

You know how some men find women’s interest in romance and clothes hard to cope with?   Well, Sithney (or Sezni) should be the patron saint of all such men. According to a Breton folk legend, Sithney was a hermit of long ago, minding his own business, when one day God told him that he was...

Many Christians have dreamed of doing something spectacular for God, which would be remembered for centuries afterwards. Oswald, who lived from 605 to 642AD, was in a position to do so. He was a King, whose father, Aethelfrith, was a great warrior who laid the foundations of the great kingdom of Northumbria. But Aethelfrith was...