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Gambling – is it a good idea for churches? Beware taking your pills abroad What is breeding on your tea towel? Is it safe to breath in your home? Smell the coffee? Does your dog jump out of your car? How pocket money can affect your children The march of the unicorns There’s a tattoo...

  A three-day evangelism event at Falkirk Stadium, in partnership with over 200 churches across Central Scotland, has led to 1000 people saying they want to become Christians. The Central Scotland Celebration of Hope saw churches invite Will Graham, grandson of the late Rev. Billy Graham, to come to Scotland and share the Gospel. The Falkirk...

You are organising the annual summer church fete. Someone asks, ‘Why not have a raffle? That always makes money.’ They have bought some tickets and will sell them around the village in the lead up to the event. Another parishioner offers to have a ‘guess the vicar’s weight’ game or do a pound in the...

A new online video has just gone live in a bid to encourage schools across the country to take part in the annual Cranmer Awards competition. The national contest is run by the Prayer Book Society which encourages rediscovery and use of the Book of Common Prayer.  The competition introduces young people aged between 11...

Are you going abroad on holiday?  Be careful which medicines you pack – what is legal in this country may NOT be legal in the country to which you are going.  And, as figures from the Health Survey for England show that 48 per cent of us are taking prescription medication, this will affect very...

Tearfund has announced the launch of Tearfund USA – a new charity encouraging Americans to help fight global poverty and climate change.

You will never look at your kitchen tea towels in quite the same way again: they could be harbouring bugs which will give you food poisoning. Here are the gruesome details: recent tests on tea towels found that E.coli is more likely to be found on towels which have been used for both dishes and...

Is your home polluted? A recent study has found that indoor pollutants are all around us, and that they may lead to up to 9,000 deaths a year. Dozens of personal care products have been given the thumbs-down for what they can do to the air-quality in your home: nail varnish, deodorants, gas stoves, wood...

Do you have smell blindness?  Probably – if you are busy.  It seems that when we are focussed on a task, and distracted, our sense of smell is diminished.  Perhaps that’s where the saying ‘wake up and smell the coffee’ comes from?

Editor:   Kings and mystics, writers and martyrs – August does well with its feast days that remember outstanding Christians. Monica and Augustine are new this month. 1     Ethelwold – Saint of Wessex 4     Sithney  – mad dogs 5     Oswald – a king with faith, courage and humility 6      The Transfiguration of our Lord 7    ...

Do you carry dogs in your car?  Be careful – letting them jump out of your car boot can risk damaging their legs, according to a recent Veterinary College study at Hartpury University Centre. Leaping out can increase the pressure on their front legs by as much as a quarter. That can cause muscular-skeletal pathologies.

St Ethelwold (c.912 – 84) did great things for the church at Winchester, which in those days was the principle town of Wessex.   He began as a simple monk, eager to restore the Rule of Benedictine in England, a major reform for the church of the time.  So, after serving at the abbey in Glastonbury,...