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 The Rectory St James the Least My dear Nephew Darren I suppose it had to come, but combining parishes is now firmly on the agenda for our villages. I had always wondered what the first Earl of Stowe was trying to prove, building a church here in 1347 to accommodate 800 people when the total...

Catherine is thought to have been a noble girl who lived in the 4th century.  She was persecuted for her Christianity, and despised marriage with the Emperor because she was a ‘bride of Christ’.  According to the legend, Catherine was no push-over intellectually, either:  she disputed successfully with 50 philosophers who were called in to...

Nazir Afzal, the former chief crown prosecutor, known for his work in the Rochdale grooming gang cases and tackling gender violence, has been appointed as the next independent chair of the Church of England’s National Safeguarding Panel (NSP) Mr Afzal, a practising Muslim, and founder chair of the Catholic Church’s safeguarding body in England and...

The apostle Andrew (d. c.60) is patron saint of Scotland.  According to the gospel of Matthew,   Andrew and his brother Simon Peter were the very first two disciples whom Jesus called.   ‘Come, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.’  (Matt 4:18,19) Without more ado, they obeyed.  ‘At once they left their nets...

In Flanders Fields Words to Remember Watch, Wait Prayer for November 2024 Making melody unto the Lord God so loves them all A Fun Puzzle Talk to Jesus Peace ** Editor:  This year, Sunday 10th is Remembrance Sunday and Monday 11th is Remembrance Day. The poppy has become a symbol of Remembrance and hope, including...

 250 years ago, on 22nd November 1774, Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive (Clive of India), died. He was the British general who helped found the British Empire in India. Born in Shropshire to a prominent family of limited means, Clive had a wild childhood, with episodes of violence including extortion from local shopkeepers. He was...

 Fanny Crosby (1820 – 1915), the American singer and musician, was blind from the age of six weeks. She married her music teacher, Alexander Van Alstyne, who was also blind. She was a prolific song-writer, and once signed a contract with a publisher to write three songs every week throughout the year. But in fact,...

“What a composer has to do is to find out the real message he has to convey to the community and say it directly and without equivocation…if the roots of your art are firmly planted in your own soil, and that soil has anything individual to give you, you may still gain the whole world...

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Richard Osman, game-show-host-turned-best-selling novelist, writes books in the genre called ‘cosy crime’. In these stories, a murder has been committed and a sleuth sets out to discover whodunnit. But this isn’t gritty noir. There’s usually a pleasant rural setting and an amateur detective, and the bloodless murder is rarely dwelt upon. Most importantly, there’s a...

The number of children caught committing crimes has risen by nine per cent in just the past year. Altogether, the number of under-18s who have been arrested for all crimes has risen by 16 per cent since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. It now stands at nearly 60,000. Crimes of violence, robbery and...

Scientists have long known that mental resilience, or our ability to bounce back in the face of trouble and adversity, has a powerful effect on us for the good. Such resilience has been linked to preventing disease, keeping chronic illnesses at bay, and helping us recover after trauma. Now it seems that our capacity to...