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The Lambeth Conference has been rescheduled and will now take place during the summer of 2021.  This follows consultation between the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lambeth Conference Design Group, Primates and trustees of the Lambeth Conference Company. As the website says: “This significant meeting of Anglican bishops and spouses will continue to be planned –...

On that long ago first morning of Pentecost, Jerusalem was crowded with thousands of visitors, for it was one of the most popular feast-days in the Jewish calendar – the Feast of Firstfruits, looking forward to the wheat harvest. In one small room of that great city, a small group of people who had followed...

Why Jesus walked on water A tourist, planning a trip to the Holy Land, was aghast when he found it would cost £50 an hour to rent a boat on the Sea of Galilee.  “Goodness,” he objected to the travel agent.  “In England it would not have been more than £20.” “That might be true,”...

By John Piper, IVP, £4.49 “It is utterly crucial that in our darkness we affirm the wise, strong hand of God to hold us, even when we have no strength to hold Him,” urges John Piper. Even the most faithful, focused Christians can encounter periods of depression and spiritual darkness when joy seems to stay...

VE Day (Victory in Europe) – was celebrated 75 years ago this month, on 8th May 1945, marking the end of World War II in Europe. It was marked with a public holiday. The previous day the formal act of military surrender had been signed by Germany, and celebrations broke out when the news was...

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Two hundred years ago, on 11th May 1820, the British Royal Navy sloop HMS Beagle was launched. It was the ship that took Charles Darwin on the voyage around the world between 1831 and 1836 that led to his putting forward the theory of Evolution. HMS Beagle was one of 100 ships of its class,...

The prophet Jonah is mentioned three times in the Gospels when Jesus refers to ‘the sign of Jonah.’ In the Old Testament he was swallowed by a large fish, traditionally a whale, and in its belly for three days and three nights. It is easy to see in that sign a reference to the death...

Dear God, Thank you for xxxx, for all that they meant to me and others. I so wanted to say goodbye, to be alongside my friends and family. Help me to know you are there, Holding all my hopes, Holding all those I love, especially xxxx, And holding me this day. Be close this day with your...

‘So many people died that cities and villages in Italy … were abandoned and fell into ruin.’ That’s not a report about the impact of coronavirus, but an epidemic of smallpox that infected the Roman Empire in 165 AD. A second, equally devastating plague, possibly measles, swept the empire less than 100 years later. Rodney...

Crises bring out the best in people. What has become immediately apparent over the last few weeks is that the reserves of kindness, generosity and love for each other are often far deeper than we could have imagined. One of the challenges of this specific crisis is how inactive and intangible our help and selflessness...

On 11th March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus to be a global pandemic. Since its outbreak in January in Wuhan, China, the world has been slowly engulfed by fear of this invisible but deadly threat. As the virus has spread, so have the efforts of our Governments to slow the virus....