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St Matthew was one of 12 apostles.  But he began as a publican i.e. a tax-collector of Jewish race who worked for the Romans, before he left all at the call of Christ.  From earliest times, he was regarded as the author of the first of the four Gospels.    The Gospel of Matthew is in...

‘Let him lead me to the banquet hall…’ Song of Solomon 2:4     Saturday was the annual village fete. By late in the afternoon, there were still some raw burgers left over. The butcher had supplied them frozen and during the day they had defrosted. Someone had baked some rock cakes which they could not...

Who teaches young children how to use the lavatory and clean themselves up afterwards?   You’d be surprised. According to YouGov research, more and more parents are failing to train their young children in this most basic of personal tasks. Instead, primary schoolteachers have to step in and teach them.  So widespread has the problem become,...

23rd September is the autumnal equinox (if you live in the northern hemisphere) or the vernal (Spring) equinox (if you live in the southern hemisphere)  The equinoxes occur in March and September, when the Sun is ‘edgewise’ to the Earth’s axis of rotation, so that everywhere on earth has twelve hours of daylight and twelve...

Many young people who have just left home for university will be lonely. That is a normal emotion of young adults, and it is certainly not a medical condition. So says a leading professor of psychiatry at Kings College London, who advises universities not to make the current mental health crisis worse by assuming that...

London Fashion Week takes place 14th to 18th September.  Hundreds of buyers, journalists, bloggers, fashionistas and photographers will all be in attendance as the top fashion houses showcase their new prints, fabrics, cuts and shapes for the spring and summer of 2019. LFW is far more than pretty models strutting up and down a catwalk....

September is the time when we get back to our normal routines after the summer break. It’s a good opportunity to ask how God wants us to make a difference in our workplace, school, family or with friends. Paul writes: ‘And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name...

What health problem will lose our children around 60,000 days off school this year? Tooth decay.  A child is having a rotten tooth extracted in England every ten minutes, due largely to high-sugar diets and a failing to clean their teeth properly. These recent figures from Public Heath England are alarming, but it is easy...

The dramatic rescue of the boys trapped deep inside a cave in Thailand has been an inspiration around the world. That all of them could be brought out alive seemed almost beyond belief, yet because of the bravery, skill and ingenuity of their rescuers it happened. One news reporter spoke about their ‘salvation’, and it...

They are worth it.  Even if you can’t stop yawning. Young children bring you great happiness. Recent figures produced by the National Centre for Social Research suggest that even if they scream all night, still parents of young children are happier than non-parents – or those with school-age children.  And more good news – having...

Eighty years ago this month, on 30th September 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned to England in triumph after signing the Munich Agreement with Hitler, declaring there would be “peace for our time”. This is often misquoted as “peace in our time” (as in the Book of Common Prayer) and in that form was...

It’s amazing how little some things change down the centuries.  Take the life of Gerard Sagredo, for instance.  He left his ‘comfort zone’ of home and church because he felt God’s calling on his life.  He travelled abroad and taught in order to earn his living in a non-Christian country.  In his spare time he...