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Anskar (801-865) should be the patron saint of any Christian who loves doing mission… and who discovers that evangelists meet the most amazing people, and that their lives are full of surprises…. It was the 9th century, and Anskar had grown up in a noble family in Amiens.  He decided to forsake it all in...

– Omnibus Edition By Rachel Turner, BRF, £12.99 This book aims to help equip parents to raise God-connected children and teens. It provides inspiration and wisdom for nurturing children into the reality of God’s presence and love, equipping them to access Him themselves and encouraging them to grow in a two-way relationship with Him that...

St Blaise is the saint for you if you have a sore throat, or a pet who is ill.  He was born in Sebastea, ancient Armenia, (now Sivas, in Turkey) sometime during the late 3rd century, and became a physician.  But his compassion did not stop there: he went on to become bishop of Sebastea,...

By Jane Brocklehurst, Kindle edition, £1.99 Clutter begins in the mind, with a certain attitude toward material possessions. Decluttering with other people is as much a ministry as a job. If we own nothing at all, it makes us miserable because none of our basic human needs are met. Having food and clothes and a...

When did you first encounter Christianity?  If it was an adult, then Phileas is a saint for you.   His life shows that Truth matters, whenever you encounter it, but is also a warning that you need to count the cost of becoming a Christian. Phileas was a rich man living in Egypt at the end...

Persecution of Christians in various countries is making the headlines these days.  Believers facing such opposition might well find inspiration from the courage of the Japanese Christians of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The Jesuit Francis Xavier had first brought Christianity to Japan in 1549, when he persuaded Shimazu Takahisa, the daimyo of...

By Megan Carter, TSL Books, £5.50 One of the Parish Pump poets, Megan Carter, has just published a book of poems, called Amazing Grace.  If you would like to order a copy, please contact enquiries@parishpump.co.uk.  A copy costs £5.50 including P&P.

All in the month of FEBRUARY ‘The day the music died’ The Satanic Verses and the fatwa QWERTY celebrates a big birthday Marie Curie and The Great Daffodil Appeal Downsizing our social life Long walks are not so long The GOOD news about chocolate National Nest Box Week:  14th – 21st February National Pizza Day...

(Luke 2:22-35) Sometimes old people see things, sometimes they understand, their years and experience lending wisdom – sometimes. But that day in the Temple was beyond human sight and understanding, beyond human wisdom. That day in the Temple, God moved. And Simeon saw, with Holy Spirit sight, with revelation light, the realisation of God’s promise....

St Kew has nothing to do with gardens or the ‘Q’ of James Bond fame.  This Kew was a girl who lived in Cornwall in the 5th century, and should be the patron saint of girls with difficult older brothers. Kew’s older brother was a hermit who felt his younger sister was not worthy to...

It was: 200 years ago, on 14th Feb 1819 that Christopher Sholes, American inventor was born.  He developed one of the first typewriters and invented the QWERTY keyboard. 150 years ago, on 14th Feb 1869 that Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist was born.  Winner of the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the...

Scholastica (d.c. 543) should be the patron saint of any woman who can bend her brother to do her will – no matter how ‘powerful’ that brother might seem to other people. For Scholastica’s brother was no less than the great monk Benedict, who founded the famous Benedictine order and lived at Monte Cassino.   In...