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Three years after the Russian Revolution of 1917, a great anti-God rally was arranged in Kiev.  The powerful orator Bukharin was sent from Moscow, and for an hour he demolished the Christian faith with argument, abuse and ridicule.  At the end there was silence. Then a man rose and asked to speak.  He was a...

The following list of witnesses may help you put all those references in order…. Mary Magdalene                                Mark 16:9-11; John 20:10-18 Other women at the tomb                Matthew 28:8-10 Peter in Jerusalem                             Luke 24:34; 1 Corinthians 15:5 The two travellers on the road        Mark 16:12,13 10 disciples behind closed doors     Mark 16:14; Luke 24:36-43; John 20:19-25 11...

How do you make sense of the Resurrection?  Dead men don’t rise, so why believe that this particular dead man did rise? At the end of St Luke’s Gospel we read that: “they still did not believe it because of joy and amazement” (Luke 24.4).  This is highly significant.  The Gospels do not show us...

Anselm is a good saint to remember next time someone asks you to prove that there is a God.  His brilliant and original Proslogion, written 1077-8, sets out the ‘ontological’ proof for God’s existence.  Nearly ten centuries later, it is still studied by theological students as one of the great philosophical ‘proofs’ of God’s existence....

Waiting for your stuff to be delivered Why we are turning to soap bars Keep an eye on your teenage daughter Beware of dating fraud You are what you think about Mind the potholes! Will you become a victim of crime? Waste not, want not Get moving How to live longer Seen but not heard...

This month’s painting in the National Gallery is known as the Mond Crucifixion. It has an interesting history, because Ludwig Mond, the German born scientist and industrialist, offered to lend the painting to the Gallery in 1892. The trustees for some reason declined the offer. Ludwig Mond was undeterred and at his death in 1909...

‘Harran, Kanneh and Eden and merchants of Sheba, Ashur and Kilmad traded with you.  In your market-place they traded with you beautiful garments, blue fabric, embroidered work and multi-coloured rugs with cords twisted and tightly knotted. The ships of Tarshish serve as carriers for your wares. You are filled with heavy cargo as you sail...

It’s perhaps typical of the English that they should have a patron saint who isn’t English, about whom next to nothing is known for sure, and who may not have existed at all. That didn’t stop him being patriotically invoked in many battles, notably at Agincourt and in the Crusades, and of course it is...

It’s official: we are buying more soap bars these days.  And that is a good thing. It is all a part of the major consumer backlash against unnecessary plastic waste. More and more of us want eco-friendly versions of our everyday needs.  Thus, we have ‘bags for life’, loose fruit and veg, and now –...

The Saint of an English Army before he was Patron Saint of England, St George may have been a soldier, but he was no Englishman.  He was an officer in the Roman army under Diocletian, who refused to abandon his faith during the Terror, and was martyred at Lydda in Palestine about the year 300...

Church leaders give blessing to plastic-free faith Easter Egg General Synod backs plans to mobilise one million worshippers New code of practice on ecumenical cooperation approved General Synod backs drive to create new churches on estates
  Church of England commits to next generation evangelism Call for long view on ‘Character Education and Resilience’ New standards...

If she is spending more than three hours a day on social media, she may well need your help.  A recent study has found that such girls are more than twice as likely to have depression as their male classmates. A government-funded study by UCL found that more than 25% of teenage girls who average...