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It can be risky being ordained: ten per cent of C of E clergy who filled in a recent   government-funded survey have said that someone had been violent towards them during the past two years.  In one in five cases, the violence had resulted in the clergy being injured. The survey was carried out on...

How will the world change with respect to religion over the next 30 years?  What will the map of world religions look like in 2050? A link-up between the Global Christian Database in Gordon-Conwell University and Operation World staff on the Lausanne website suggests the following trends in relation to population: A third of the...

Two words that do not occur in the Hebrew Old Testament – adolescence and retirement.

The Rectory St James the Least My dear Nephew Darren So, your vicar has appointed you to be the magazine editor; I wonder what you have done to offend him.  I appointed our magazine editor 20 years ago, after her dog dug up my rose bed. Sadly, she seems unaware that I gave it to...

Lent with New Daylight The Resilient Disciple – a Lenten journey from Adversity to Maturity Jesus Said, ‘I Am’ – finding life in the everyday 80 Reflective Prayer Ideas – a creative resource for church and group use Thomas Cochrane and the Dragon Throne The Story of the Holy Land – a visual history **...

New Daylight is The Bible Reading Fellowship’s most popular series of Bible reading notes, with many thousands of devoted subscribers. Now, for the first time, BRF is breaking new ground with a special edition of New Daylight for Lent 2019. As well as daily reflections from some of the series’ best-loved writers, Lent with New...

– a Lenten journey from Adversity to Maturity By Justine Allain Chapman, SPCK, £7.99 ‘The art of kintsugi (‘repairing with gold’) not only restores cracked objects but makes them even more beautiful than before.’ Alone on an 8-day retreat in the Egyptian desert, Justine Allain Chapman experienced first-hand the physical, spiritual and mental struggle many have endured before...

By Andrea Skevington, BRF, £8.99 Here are reflections on Jesus’ most familiar sayings, with a striking blend of knowledge, insight and humility, and a fresh, contemporary perspective. ‘I am’ is a common construction, something we say many times each day. It is also a very deep mystery. Who are we? How do we define ourselves?…...

Stone-throwing Prayer for help and healing What a world what a world Jesus my Lord The Cold Caller Rekindling   **   Stone-throwing (John 8:1-11) A familiar scene … Crowds of people with strong views, clamouring, demanding their way, intolerant of others who made different mistakes, different choices. A raucous, intimidating, egocentric baying for action....

By Claire Daniel, BRF, £8.99 Following the success of her 80 Creative Prayer Ideas (BRF, 2014), Claire Daniel has written a new collection of prayer ideas, focusing on rest and reflection. We need to replenish our spirits in a busy world… we need to consider how we take time to breathe and refocus on our...

(John 8:1-11) A familiar scene … Crowds of people with strong views, clamouring, demanding their way, intolerant of others who made different mistakes, different choices. A raucous, intimidating, egocentric baying for action. A familiar scene… Where is the love? Where is the compassion? Where is the concern for the common good? How long Lord, will...

– confronting disease, distrust and murderous rebellion in Imperial China By Andrew E Adam, SPCK, £10.99 In 1897, Tom Cochrane, a young doctor, arrived with his bride in Inner Mongolia, China’s northernmost territory. Three years later, after labouring single-handedly in a mud-floored dispensary, he realized that his work was a drop in a sea of...