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One great phrase of the Church of England, which is little-known but carries a wealth of rich meaning, is ‘ordinary time’. While the seasons of Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Pentecost and Advent all have their fixtures and moments for focus and concentration, the bulk of the summer months is ‘ordinary time’!  A very evocative phase – nothing...

The Church Commissioners for England has agreed a fresh lease with Butterfly Conservation at Magdalen Hill Down, a nature reserve on the edge of Winchester in the South Downs National Park. For more than three decades, the Church Commissioners for England has supported Butterfly Conservation’s efforts to boost butterfly species in this, England’s newest national...

Did you know there are those who will never have the chance to meet a Christian? Malika is one of them. She rarely has a proper meal, or the chance to go to school. Life is hard. She knows what her parents expect of her. She knows the rules that they’ve told her come from...

‘Dead Ringer’ is the odd phrase we use when referring to someone who looks like somebody else. Sometimes, instead, we say ‘spitting image’ when we see a likeness or similarity between one person and another. This month includes Fathers’ Day (15th June) and is an occasion when dads are particularly remembered by their children.  As...

The House of Bishops has issued a formal response to the Independent Reviewer’s report on the submission from WATCH (Women and the Church), regarding the appointment of diocesan bishops who do not ordain women as priests. The House reaffirmed that “the flourishing of women as priests and bishops is integral to the outworking of the Declaration and...

Every summer the C of E ordains its new deacons and priests. The services are traditionally held during Petertide (29th June), a feast day that remembers the martyrdom of Saint Peter. He was the fisherman who became a devoted disciple of Jesus, and who then went on to be an instrumental figure in the early...

From The Rectory St James the Least of All My dear Nephew Darren Much against my better judgement, after a recent series of small thefts, we have installed security cameras here at St James the Least of All. Thank goodness the suggestion for trip wires that opened the gate to Mrs Poppleroy’s garden next door,...

 Two thirds of all Gen Z drivers (aged 18-to-28 years old) have asked their parents or friends to park their car for them.  96% admit they are anxious about parallel or reverse parking. This compares to 28 per cent of Generation X (aged 45 to 60) who have asked for help in parking, and 14...

In the 19th century John Bowes, the 10th Earl of Strathmore, built a museum in the  French style, with landscaped gardens, at Barnard Castle in Teesdale. He bequeathed it 800 paintings, including a previously unknown Van Dyck. But visitors to the Bowes Museum often make a beeline for its amazing 18th century silver swan automaton....

Raw sewage continues to pour into our rivers and lakes. Water pollution is up by a third, with some 2,487 incidents recorded in the last year alone. Last year, although firms were given an Environment Agency (EA) target of 40 per cent reduction in pollution incidents, instead such incidents rose by 30 per cent more....

Why aren’t dinosaurs in the Bible? The Bible wasn’t written to list all the animals on earth or tell us about science. It was written a long time before people started to use science to learn about the world. When the Bible was written, people didn’t even have a word for dinosaurs yet! But it’s...