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How to make the most of your New Year resolutions Teenagers face increasing violence Monty Don, Chelsea Flower Show and dogs Deaths by accident are on the rise Morning and evening stroll could cut bowel cancer risk, study suggests Boys’ interest in reading plummets Hot water bottle injuries soar Call 999 if you see just...

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

2025 is a year of Jubilee in the Roman Catholic Church, a year which takes place every 25 years. It’s a special year of forgiveness and reconciliation, in which people are invited to come back into right relationship with God, with one another, and with all of creation.  This acts as a challenge for all...

It was: 400 years ago, on 13th Jan 1625 that Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flemish artist, died. 150 years ago, on 14th Jan 1875 that Albert Schweitzer, German theologian, philosopher, physician, musicologist, writer and humanitarian, was born. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952. 125 years ago, on 14th Jan 1900 that the premiere...

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...

What are your New Year resolutions for 2025? Sadly, one in four of us will give ours up by Epiphany, on 6thJanuary. Why so soon? According to behavioural scientists at University College London, we make our goals both too big and too vague. So, instead of resolving to ‘lose a lot of weight’, decide to...

2025 is a year of Jubilee in the Roman Catholic Church, a year that takes place every 25 years. It’s a special year of forgiveness and reconciliation, in which people are invited to come back into right relationship with God, with one another, and with all of creation. This acts as a challenge for all...

Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester from 1062 to 1095, occupies a unique place in British church history. He was the last surviving pre-Conquest bishop, the first bishop to pay homage to William the Conqueror after the battle of Hastings, and one of the few Saxons to keep high office to the end of William’s reign. On top...

It was 25 years ago, on 1st January 2000, that the calendar switched over to the year 2000, with no major computer problems from the Y2K “Millennium Bug”. The Y2K bug was a computer flaw involving software and hardware that might have caused problems when dealing with dates beyond 31st December, 1999. This was because,...

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 he became a monk at Reichenau (Switzerland). In 829 he moved to Einsiedeln to be a hermit, where he lived quietly...

The number of teenage victims of violence is increasing. One in five teenagers said they had been victims of violence in the past 12 months, according to a recent study of 13 to 17-year-olds by the Youth Endowment Fund, a government-backed charity. More than half of the incidents (61 per cent) of violence resulted in...

The Acts of the Apostles was written by Luke, a physician-friend and fellow-traveller of Paul. It complements his gospel, both being written for Theophilus (Luke 1:3; Acts 1:1), in around AD 63, during Paul’s first Roman imprisonment. While Luke’s gospel records what Jesus began to do and teach, Acts tells us about what Jesus continued...