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  • 7 Feb 2012
    Green Christians urged to 'LOAF' during Lent

    Durung Lent, Christian Ecology Link is asking supporters to think and act on food sourcing in their local church communities and further afield.

  • 5 Apr 2011
    Simplicity and freedom

    “ 'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free”. The Shaker hymn has always been dear to me; not least because its open-spaced and perfectly poised melody makes such a perfect fit with the spirit of the plain, graceful words.

  • 16 Mar 2011
    US anti-poverty advocates launch 40-day Lent campaign

    United States anti-poverty church activists have launched a 40-day Lenten campaign to put the issue of global poverty into sharper focus.

  • 14 Mar 2011
    US churches take their message to the streets

    Busy commuters in some cities in the United States had the church come to them last week on Ash Wednesday, bringing the message to the streets.

  • 11 Mar 2011
    Inspiring women, changing lives

    Neither International Women's Day nor Ash Wednesday usually have any great significance for me, says Jill Segger. The Quaker belief that all days and times carry the sacred within them is usually sufficient. But this year, I am moved to consider it possible that I may have been mistaken.

  • 8 Mar 2011
    Will you help someone like Amparo start again?

    When guerrilla soldiers threatened Amparo in her home in northern Colombia she had to make the most terrifying decision of her life – flee with her children and leave everything behind, or die.

  • 25 Jan 2011
    Bishops tweet their blessings this Lent

    This Lent, Christian Aid is using social media and blogging Bishops to encourage people to use the time between Ash Wednesday and Easter to pray, act and give.

  • 2 Apr 2010
    Good Friday: travelling towards hope

    The seventh and final installment in a series of 2010 Lent and Holy Week blogs from Willard Roth focusing on places of particular spiritual intensity and interest across Britain and Ireland.

  • 28 Mar 2010
    A peace challenge to Christian radicalism

    While peace groups still lobby for the wall to come down in Israel and for countless other injustices to cease around the world, says Sande Ramage, the Waihopai 3 in Aotearioa/ New Zealand challenge us about just how radical our Christianity needs to be.

  • 25 Mar 2010
    Iona, Coventry and hospitality in the city

    The sixth in a series of 2010 Lent blogs from Willard Roth focusing on places of particular spiritual intensity and interest across Britain and Ireland.