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- A charity, Tastelife, has been set up to help support families struggling with eating disorders. Aimed at both sufferers and their carers, it was the brainchild of two Church of England volunteers, whose own families were deeply traumatised by the problem. Tastelife offers courses run over eight weeks to help families with guidance on how...Help for your family’s eating disorders
- How far do people have to go, to go to church? A recent survey has been finding out. The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), came from Nigeria to the UK in 1988, and has started some 850 churches since, has as its basic guide: “Start a church within 10 minutes walking distance of where...How far away is your church from your home?
- Under the slogan, “once untrustworthy, always restricted” China’s planned AI (artificial intelligence) controlled “social credit” system will bring a new depth of intervention into the lives of Chinese citizens, including Christians, reports the Barnabas Fund. The Chinese government pilot schemes, in cities including Beijing and Shanghai, are underpinned by a vast network of advanced surveillance...Could “social scoring” surveillance increase pressure on Chinese Christians?
- The mainstream churches of Ireland have welcomed the recent decision of the Irish electorate to delete a clause in their Constitution which made blasphemy a criminal offence. The vote, held in a referendum late last year, was overwhelmingly in favour of deleting the clause, with nearly 65% voting for, and about 35% voting against. It...Irish delete blasphemy
- The fairtrade pioneer Traidcraft has made radical changes in order to prevent closure. It has slashed its product lines and kept just 12 employees. It will now focus on a core range of grocery products such as tea, coffee, and lavatory paper, and fewer handicrafts. But it promises to still challenge the conventional market by...Traidcraft to continue – but in ‘skinny’ version
- CMS Africa has just celebrated its first ten years with a new headquarters in Nairobi. CMS Africa was set up in 2008 to provide a link between the work of Christian missionaries, who have been in Africa since the 1800s, and churches, communities, and families across the continent. The building was the gift of CMS...CMS Africa looks to the future
- The UK has lost half of its hedgehog population since the year 2000. The Christian conservation charity, A Rocha UK, is out to stop the decline. ‘Project Hedgehog’ is one result, a joint initiative between A Rocha UK and the Lea Brook Valley Project. ‘Project Hedgehog’ provides purpose-built, cat-proof hedgehog boxes for private gardens. There...Help our hedgehogs – or lose them forever
- Wise Men Still Seek Him From the Vicar That They Be One 2019: Is it even possible to make a new start? What a legacy! His grace really is sufficient Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord Ten things God won’t ask you when you die ** Editor: The Rev Paul Hardingham considers...Looking at God (all articles) in January 2019
- ‘A cold coming we had of it. Just the worst time of the year. For a journey and such a long journey.’ (‘Journey of the Magi’, T.S. Eliot). In this poem, T.S. Eliot imagines the journey of the Magi to worship Jesus, as told in Matthew 2. This story is at the heart of our...Wise Men Still Seek Him
- ‘A cold coming we had of it. Just the worst time of the year. For a journey and such a long journey.’ (Journey of the Magi, T.S. Eliot). In this poem, T.S. Eliot imagines the journey of the Magi to worship Jesus, as told in Matthew 2. This story is at the heart of our...From the Vicar
- ‘My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent...‘That They Be One’ – a Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
- The Christian faith teaches that a new start is endlessly possible. It is provided by a personal encounter with the risen and living Jesus Christ. He offers us the opportunity and the resources to make a new start, despite all our circumstances or failings. The Bible records many encouraging examples of people who were able...2019: Is it even possible to make a New Start?