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Looking at You   What does the law say about food? What an apple might do for you How to avoid the tooth fairy Happiness is… Keep your brain healthy Don’t fight ‘book block’ Confiding in mum and dad? Best way to clean your house What happened to basic lavatory training? Universities can mistake ‘loneliness...

Modern people, distraught if deprived of ‘all mod con’, must be baffled how men survived year after year of living much of the time in the trenches of the Western Front. For month after month everything was ankle deep in mud. These were their living quarters, complete with primitive toilet arrangements, permanent damp, rats and...

Teaching people to ‘tithe’ can be a delicate matter.  Some clergy teach ‘tithing’ well, and inspire their people to great generosity of spirit.   Other clergy teach ‘tithing’ at least well enough, and get their people’s sluggish cooperation. But – there are clergy who teach ‘tithing’ badly – and then, watch out!   St Adam (bishop 1213...

A commemorative booklet called Silence has been produced for churches to give away at Remembrance events this November. Silence includes many of the familiar Remembrance epitaphs, poems and exhortations and aims to help all those attending Remembrance services to engage with God in the two minutes silence. On Sunday, 11 November 2018, people around the...

Ninian was a Celt who was born about 360, in southern Scotland.  He was remarkable for two things:  he was almost certainly the first man in Scotland to live in a little white stone house, and also the first to preach the gospel to the Scots.   Just as remarkable:  becoming the apostle to the Picts...

During the World Cup in July we were serenaded with 26 assorted National Anthems – songs intended to infuse players and fans with patriotic fervour. Most of them were predictable. Even if you didn’t know the language, you could guess the message: ‘our country’s better than your country’. A few sounded downright aggressive, but without...

Have you ever sinned since you became a Christian?  Really sinned – or in other words done something that was SO wrong and totally ‘out of line’ with being a Christian that you are still ashamed when you think of it now.  If so, and if you went on to ask God’s forgiveness for it,...

The youngest person to swim the English Channel was a British boy, Tom Gregory, who was 11 years and 336 days old when he did it 30 years ago this month, on 6th September 1988. Tom was trained for the event by the legendary John Bullet, who ran the local pool in Eltham, south-east London....

Here’s some good news:  an apple a day could help keep diabetes at bay, according to new health guidelines. Yoghurt, cheese and regular cups of tea or coffee are among other food and drinks that could also help ward off the condition.  But keep an eye on the meat and potatoes – they may actually...

Don’t feel guilty about giving up on a novel.  If you don’t enjoy it, simply abandon it. That’s the advice of the Reading Agency, a literary charity which recently surveyed our novel reading habits.  It found that more than 20 per cent of us refuse to give up on a book once we have started...

Joseph of Copertino (1603 – 63) should be the patron saint of all awkward people who mean well, but who drive those around them to distraction – especially their church leaders. Joseph began life in a garden shed, because his father had sold the house to pay debts.  Then he grew up wandering about open-mouthed...

Google, the internet search company, was founded 20 years ago this month, on 4th September 1998, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both students at Stanford University in California.  The company was initially based in a friend’s garage. The friend – Susan Wojcicki – is now CEO of YouTube. The company developed from an idea for...