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What do you do when you find a large spider web in your house?  If you ever feel some sympathy for the spider who went to all that trouble, then Felix is a good patron saint for you.  He was saved by such a spider, spinning such a web. Felix had been born to a...

Children raised in religious homes are more likely to succeed academically than those from non-religious backgrounds, regardless of whether they go to a faith school or not. Such is the finding of recent research by the UCL Institute of Education, which analysed a cohort of pupils born in 1970, their religious upbringing and the school...

If your Christmas and New Year break included just too many people and even a bout of indigestion, then St Antony may be the saint for you.  He was a hermit-monk with a reputation for making poorly people feel better. Antony was born in Coma (Upper Egypt) in 251, and at 20 became an ascetic. ...

A staggering three in four parents are having to cook multiple meals each evening because of their own/partner/children’s restricted diets. This finding from a recent survey by Co-op follows the news that almost a third of us (30 percent) now have special dietary requirements or intolerances.   According to the statistics, our diets are increasingly in...

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January is when many of us begin to daydream of summer holidays in the sun.  So here is some advice, way in advance: when you finally hit the beach this summer, your tan will be better if you sunbathe only every other day. Researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel have found that the pigmentation...

Not many teenagers, on becoming a Christian, will devote themselves to winning others for Christ in a foreign land. Amy was such a person. She left Britain to live in a tiny village in Southern India. Here, for the next 56 years, Amy rescued hundreds of orphaned and vulnerable children, and served her Lord in...

Here is a sobering fact:  more children have placed bets in the past week than have drunk alcohol, smoked or taken drugs.  Such are the findings from an audit by the Gambling Commission. It also found that one in seven 11- to16-year-olds bet regularly, staking an average of £16 a week.  And those who start...

The more things change, the more they remain the same.  You could read Meinrad’s story today in the newspapers of any large city.  He was born near Wurtemberg of a free peasant family, and became a monk at Reichenau (Switzerland).  In 829 he moved to Einsiedeln to be a hermit, where he lived quietly for...

Teenagers who are tidy are more likely to live to old age, according to a recent 48-year study. The vast data analysis found that people who had been tidy, quiet, calm and empathetic as teenagers, had then tended to live well on into old age. On the other hand, the research also traced strong links...

by Wendy Grey, SPCK, £7.99 1959. Newcastle nurse Wendy Grey leaves her comfortable life and answers a call from people in Borneo to run a clinic in a place so remote, many there have never before seen a white woman. Until her arrival, medical witchcraft has been the norm. Nevertheless, Wendy quickly gains the trust...

Agnes should be the patron saint of all the young Christian girls alive today who live in areas of the world where they face kidnap, rape, forced marriage, persecution and even death – simply because they are Christian. Agnes, born c 291, probably came from a noble Roman family.  She converted to Christianity at the...