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Christmas is a great time of year, but it’s not without its challenges! After one family had put up 250,000 Christmas lights outside, they didn’t dare boil a kettle for fear of blowing the system! The challenge of over-indulging We all remember the episode of the Vicar of Dibley, where she had to consume four...

All over the world, doors are being slammed shut this Christmas. As the wars in the Middle East, in Ukraine and in Sudan rage on, millions are losing their homes and places of safety. Elsewhere, hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers and would-be immigrants are on the road, seeking refuge anywhere they can find it....

A well-known atheist was being interviewed on Radio 4. When asked how he spent Christmas, he said that he went to Midnight Mass at church. “But you’re an atheist”, his interviewer protested. “Yes”, he replied, “but what they celebrate at Christmas is the most beautiful story ever told.” That ‘beautiful story’ tells of a Creator...

War and Peace From the Vicar What’s the Big Idea? – An Introduction to the gospel of Luke Reflecting Faith: Wall paintings Whole Life Discipleship:  ‘Growing Up Together’ Should Christians go to war? HYMN:  The story behind ‘To God be the Glory!’ Choose your god ** Editor:  Canon Paul Hardingham considers the reality of warfare...

John Lennon wrote: ‘Imagine there’s no countries, It isn’t hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, And no religion too. Imagine all the people living life in peace.’  But on Remembrance Sunday, we should reflect on war past and present, and consider the real way to peace. The way of war: ‘What causes...

John Lennon wrote: ‘Imagine there’s no countries, It isn’t hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people living life in peace.’  But on Remembrance Sunday, we should reflect on war past and present and consider the real way to peace. The way of war: ‘What causes...

Luke is the third of the synoptic gospels. The gospel and Acts were both written for Theophilus, a Roman official, who acted as Luke’s patron to ensure that his gospel was copied and distributed. It was intended for a wider audience, to help both Gentile believers and unbelievers understand who Jesus is and that the...

Prior to the Reformation, English churches were highly decorated with interior wall paintings.  As one author wrote, ‘They were aglow with colour and images covering every flat surface’. Painting pictures seems to be a basic part of people.  We see that in newly discovered caves where people from the distant past have made sketches and...

 Andrei Rublev’s popular icon of the Trinity depicts the three mysterious strangers who visited Abraham (Genesis 18:1-15). It speaks powerfully of the relationship between the three persons of Godhead. ‘God as Being exists in community. The natural and simple demonstration of God’s communal image for humanity is the gathering of the small group.’ (Gareth Icenogle)....

Have you ever wondered how people of peace, like Christians, can contemplate the use of force? Certainly, the violence of the first quarter of the 21st century is staggering. Terrorist activity and military conflict worldwide – the resulting loss of life is never be something of which the human race can be proud. No wonder...

 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,...

‘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...