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Looking at the Community All in the month of MARCH  The Charge of the Light Brigade  The Mother of Science Fiction   Diary of a Momentous Year: 3   March 1918: Getting Nowhere The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Death of Queen Mary In memory of Wilfred Owen ** Editor:  We continue our column that looks at...

Looking at You Making sure your mother is cared for HOME FREED: the theology of decluttering  – Part 3:  Clutter and Happiness Beware tough laws on phones in cars Prosecco caution How to make your host happy How men and women spend their leisure time Who falls for scams these days?   Don’t eat so fast...

Prayers and Poems     Resurrection reality Easter prayer Behold the Man That daffodil time of year What’s in the offering? The breastplate of St Patrick Lent   **   Resurrection reality (Lk23:45,Lk 24:6,34)   Jesus died and the sun stopped shining. Darkness covered the land. Hopes and expectations withered. Fear and sorrow filled the...

QUOTES of the month Lent is a time for spiritual self-examination… And then Holy Week… Miscellaneous observations on life ** Lent is a time for spiritual self-examination….where do we stand with God? Holiness is not something to be received in a meeting; it is a life to be lived and to be lived in detail. ...

Holy Habits – missional discipleship resources for churches Eat, Pray, Tell – a relational approach to 21st century mission Interpreting Dreams and Visions – a practical guide for using them Love, Remember – 40 poems of loss, lament and hope Paul: A Biography Divine Sparks – Everyday Encounters With God’s Incoming Kingdom ** Holy Habits...

Smile Lines   ** Palms It was Palm Sunday, but because of a sore throat, young James stayed home from church with his grannie. When the family returned home, they were carrying several palm fronds. Johnny asked them what they were for. “People held them over Jesus’ head as He walked by,” his father told...

Letter from St James the Least of All Happily, the Church of England still retains some singular parish clergy.  Take the parish of St James-the-Least in the county of C- for example.  Here the elderly Anglo-Catholic vicar, Eustace, continues his correspondence to Darren, his nephew, a low-church curate recently ordained…  ** On the perils of...

Not too late for a Lent Course! Start today. Growing poverty is taking its toll on our health and relationships Christians suffer during renewed fighting in Syria Church Mission Society launches first ever online resources platform dedicated to mission Christians Against Poverty help even more people When Faith meets Politics Bishop’s Bill to Put Mothers’...

During this month Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day, share the same date! It seems an odd mix, yet there is an obvious link: love! Lent, beginning on Ash Wednesday, is about learning how to love God more, as we give Him space in our lives. It’s also an opportunity to reflect on Jesus’ experience in...

During this month Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day, share the same date! It seems an odd mix, yet there is an obvious link: love! Lent, beginning on Ash Wednesday, is about learning how to love God more, as we give Him space in our lives. Jesus was led into the desert by the Spirit (1),...

 ‘Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised.’ (Romans 4:20,21). How good are we at keeping our promises? Paul sppaks of a God who is able to...

The king was greatly distressed, but because of his oaths and his dinner guests, he did not want to refuse her. So, he immediately sent an executioner with orders to bring John’s head. The man went, beheaded John in the prison, and brought back his head on a dish. He presented it to the girl,...