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Bishop Sarah responds to Commons debate on assisted suicide LLF Working Groups continue: Update on membership and residential meeting Behind the Stained-Glass Independent review into Church’s handling of Smyth case shakes C of E Statement on the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury Bishop of Norwich calls on UK Government to tax polluters to fund...

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Last month we considered the decorations we put on our Christmas trees, both at home and in our churches. Many churches keep their decorations – or at least their nativity scene – in place until Candlemas at the beginning of February, but most of us take our domestic ones down around Epiphany, on 6th January,...

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...

On 15th January Open Doors publishes its well-known World Watch List for 2025, naming the countries where it is most dangerous to be a Christian. More than 365 million Christians worldwide face persecution and discrimination for their faith – that’s a staggering one in seven believers. The Open Doors website shares the following data from...

Prayer of the Master Prayer for New Year 2025 New Year 2025 The Cartoons of Old Day & Night Blessing A Prayer for Humility ** Editor:  with the New Year, full of new opportunities, in mind… Prayer of the Master (John 17:13-26) Spirit of joy Oh, protect us, As we work hand in hand Through...

This coming Spring Monty Don is going to design a garden for dogs for the Chelsea Flower Show. Monty Don’s garden will include a well-kept lawn for doggie comfort, and a large tree for shade. For the dog’s human friends, there will be spring-flowering bulbs. The garden is the result of a collaboration of Radio...

Fifty years ago, on 20th January 1975, Bob Dylan’s album Blood on the Tracks was released. It was his 15th studio album and an exceptional one, marking his return to Columbia from Asylum Records. The Ultimate Classic Rock website places it third best of Dylan’s 40 studio albums, behind the double album Blonde on Blonde...

In this series we will be looking at 12 prayers found in the Bible, in both the Old and New Testaments. Some are prayers for personal circumstances, while others relate to family or church or nation. In studying all 12 prayers the emphasis will be on what we can learn about prayer and how we...

Never under-estimate a deacon. After all, the first-ever Christian martyr was a deacon in the church of Jerusalem – St Stephen.  And the first-ever Christian martyr in Spain was a deacon of the Church of Saragossa – St Vincent. By now it was 304AD, and the Roman Emperor Diocletian was persecuting Christians.  When his edict...

Sixty years ago, on 4th January 1965, T S Eliot, American-born British poet, playwright, literary critic and editor, died.  He won the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature. Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in 1888 in St Louis, Missouri, but his family were prominent Unitarians, with roots in Boston. However, he had a Roman Catholic nanny,...

We all have moments in life when our circumstances change dramatically, and we wonder how things are going to work out. Perhaps it was like this for Mary. One moment she was planning her marriage to Joseph, when an angel announced she was to give birth to God’s Son. A few months later she had...