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Smile Lines ** Be with you The vicar at a local church experienced some technical problems with the sound system one Sunday. Instead of starting the service as usual with ‘The Lord be with you’, he said: ‘There’s something wrong with this microphone.’ Not hearing this, the congregation responded: ‘And also with you.’ ** Too...

Faith in the Making – Praying it, talking it and living it Inside Fatherhood – Today’s fathers tell their stories Long Story Short – Finding Your Place in God’s Unfolding Story When God was King – Rebels & Radicals of the Civil War & Mayflower Generation The Journey Begins – Adventures through the Bible with...

When God was King – Rebels & Radicals of the Civil War & Mayflower Generation By Martyn Whittock, LionHudson, £9.99 Islam is not the only religion that has sought political power, or believed that it should be possible to create a theocracy. In the 17th century, Christians in the British Isles and North America attempted...

Long Story Short – Finding Your Place in God’s Unfolding Story By Andy Frost, SPCK, £7.99 ‘The universe is made of stories not of atoms,’ said American poet Muriel Rukeyser. Whether you agree with this sentiment or not, the fact is: your life tells a story. From beginning to end, your life will create a...

Inside Fatherhood – Today’s fathers tell their stories By David Atkinson, with reflections by Mark Chester, BRF  £6.99 What does fatherhood look like today? As we prepare to celebrate Father’s Day later this June, ten fathers tell their moving, real-life stories: from stepdad to absent dad, through widowed, adoptive and midlife dad, to losing-it and...

Faith in the Making – Praying it, talking it and living it By Lyndall Bywater, BRF, £7.99 Lyndall Bywater’s new book on biblical heroes pulsates with energy and the best kind of conviction: warm, wise, self-aware and compassionate. Rooted in her own story, with all its challenges and joys, as well as some crushing disappointments,...

The Journey Begins – Adventures through the Bible with Caravan Bear and friends By Avril Rowlands, Lion Children, £6.99  “Christopher Rabbit stared at the parcel. Someone had sent him a present! He tore open the wrapping and inside was a book with the words “The Bible” on the cover… with a label “Read Me”. As...

High Days & Holy Days for June 1          Justin Martyr – first ever Christian philosopher 2          Erasmus – a good saint for when you’re all at sea 3          The Martyrs of Uganda 4          Petroc – the abbot of Padstow 6          Gudwal – the first Christian in Brittany? 8          William of York – victim of...

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A Grace We bless thee, Lord, for this our food For life and health and every good May we, more blest than we deserve Live less for self and more to serve. Anon

Justin Martyr is regarded as the first ever Christian philosopher.  He was born at Nablus, Samaria, to parents of Greek origin, and was well educated in rhetoric, poetry and history before he turned to philosophy.  He studied at Ephesus and Alexandria and tried the schools of the Stoics, the Pythagoreans, and the Platonists.  Then in...

Do you like messing about in boats?  If so, then you’ll have heard of St Elmo’s Fire. It is the light that is sometimes seen on mastheads of boats after storms at sea. St Elmo is another name for St Erasmus, a fourth century Syrian bishop who was not afraid of violent storms.  Legend has...