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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...

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...

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...

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...

‘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...

‘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...

‘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...

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...

The charity Oxfam recently received a legacy of £41 million following the death of business man Richard Cousins. Richard was killed in a plane crash in Sydney Harbour on New Year’s Eve 2017, and he died alongside his two sons, his fiancée and her daughter, and the pilot. A year before the tragic accident Richard,...

‘To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power...

During the coming New Year, let these words from Psalm 33:12 form the basis for your daily personal prayers for your country… and indeed for the political leadership in the wake of all that has been taking place in the closing weeks of the past year. Let the prayers expand further still – to take...

God won’t ask what kind of car you drove; He’ll ask how many people you drove who didn’t have transportation. God won’t ask the square footage of your house, He’ll ask how many people you welcomed into your home. God won’t ask about the clothes you had in your closet, He’ll ask how many people...