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Andrew, whose feast day ends the Christian year on 30th November, is probably best known to us as the patron saint of Scotland, though his only connection with the country is that some of his bones were reputedly transported in the 8th century to Fife and preserved at a church in a place now named...

The number of students entering the Church Mission Society (CMS) Pioneer Mission Training programme has this year risen to record levels, enhanced by the enrolment of a cohort of students from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). At a time when many Christian training colleges are struggling to attract new students, a total of 45...

‘I will praise you O God with all my heart; before the gods I will sing YOUR praise.’  Psalm 138:1 You were spoilt for choice when it came to choosing a god, back in the Psalmist’s day. If you were into power and control, try Molech. A god of the Ammonite people, Molech commanded that...

The House of Bishops has given its support to proposed changes to the process of nominating future diocesan bishops to the Crown, to simplify the process and help enable a broad representation. The House, which is made up of the diocesan bishops and other senior bishops in the Church of England – agreed to ask...

War Cries Walter’s War Forgotten Warrior Living Through Bereavement Wounded I Sing Women of the Nativity The Love That Moves the Sun Embracing Humanity My Big Story Bible ** War Cries By Mark Davidson, SPCK £10.99 This collection of military prayers, produced for a wide Christian readership, may be useful for anyone wanting to join...

How do you regard your local café?  As a place to meet your friends and catch up on the local news? Or as your office, where you do emails, hold Zoom meetings and work for hours – all for the price of a cappuccino? It seems that across the country, local cafés are being invaded...

Sundays of the Month 6th October     19th Sunday after Trinity 13th October   20th Sunday after Trinity 20th October   21st Sunday after Trinity 27th October   22nd Sunday after Trinity / Bible Sunday 3rd November  4th Sunday before Advent   High Days & Holy Days Editor:  As saints don’t go away, we add to them each year...

Think of Piccadilly Circus, and that small statue of the angel poised with bow and arrow. Most people think it stands for Eros.  It does not. It stands for Anteros, his brother, the god of selfless love.  It is a memorial to the greatest Christian Victorian philanthropist, politician and social reformer of his generation –...

The teaching of Jesus encourages us to believe in guardian angels.  He once said, ‘See that you do not look down on one of these little ones.  For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.’  (Matthew 18:10) The existence of angels was suggested in various...

With Islamic State’s current savage persecution of Iraqi Christians in mind, here are two saints for this autumn:  Hewald the Black and Hewald the White (d.c. 695).  These 7th century Anglo-Saxon priests were living peacefully in Frisia among the Old Saxons, worshipping the Christian God by daily Mass on a portable altar, and reverently devoting...

St Francis (1181 – 1226) is surely one of the most attractive and best-loved of all the saints.  But he began by being anything but a saint.  Born the son of a wealthy cloth-merchant of Assisi, Francis’ youth was spent in fast-living, parties and on fast horses as a leader of the young society of...

This month is the 501th anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation, and so a good time to pay tribute to an outstanding English scholar, translator and martyr of the Reformation. William Tyndale (c. 1494 – 6th October 1536) was born near Gloucester, and studied at Oxford and Cambridge.  He could speak seven languages, and...