Release International (formerly CMCW) was founded by the Rumanian Pastor, Richard Wurmbrand who, after 14 years, including torture, in a communist prison had got so close to God, that he stated that he wouldn't have avoided the experience but would have happily repeated it had he been faced with the same circumstances.
It is one more disaster in this decrepit and failing legal system of ours - that perjurors prosper.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has faced a barrage of criticism following the announcement he will take a three month sabbatical in 2021. But Mark Melluish says the decision is wise, and Christians should welcome it . Premier Christianity.
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In the second T20 of three, England took a narrow - and unassailable - lead in this short series versus S. Africa.
Chasing what appeared to be a modest total of 146 England got into trouble just as they had in game one. This time it was a fine, calculated knock by Yorkshire's Dawid Malan to the rescue rather than Yorkshire's Johnny Bairstow.
This was as slow a pitch as could be imagined and few batsmen were able to time the ball - hence the low totals.
Precisely how many practising muslims will be turned down as foster parents for believing that homosexuality is immoral, I wonder?
How many muslims will be turned down for adoption or for sitting as magistrates, I wonder?
We must EMBRACE it! (Not easy, is it? But when we stop taking half measures - then, and only then - are we going to see the kind of answers to prayer that we all so desperately need.)
Abdalraouf Abdallah, who was friends with Salman Abedi and was communicating with him in the months leading up to the Manchester Arena terror attack, is due to be released from prison this week.
This do-gooding prisoner rehabilitation scheme should be investigated for its role in the London Bridge attack.
An apple found by chance in woodland turned out to be an "interesting" new variety.
Nature lover Archie Thomas stumbled across a solitary apple on a wooded trackway near his home in Wiltshire in early November.
The apple, which Mr Thomas said was “unlike any I’d seen before”, had come from a lone old apple tree in the hedgerow with a large number of fruit on it.
A "wild apple chase" led him to an expert who identified it as a new variety which he could propagate and name.
Mr Thomas, who works for wild plant and fungi conservation charity Plantlife, was keen to identify the unusual apple from the little-visited spot in the Nadder Valley, Wiltshire.
He said: “While I am certainly no fruit expert it immediately struck me as highly unusual, unlike any apple I’d seen before.
“Excited by the pale and mottled oddity, I set about trying to get it identified with a view to perhaps one day being able to name it.
“That was the dream, but I did half suspect it would turn out to be something much less exciting than it is.”
After what he describes as a “wild apple chase”, with many fruit experts flummoxed by the find, he received help from Plantlife colleagues.
He was then pointed towards the Royal Horticultural Society fruit identification service at RHS Wisley.
RHS fruit specialist Jim Arbury inspected three of the apples and informed Mr Thomas it was a new variety which he could propagate and name.
Mr Arbury said it was “a very interesting apple”.
He said: "It is clearly not a planted tree, but a seedling that could be a cross between a cultivated apple and a wild Malus sylvestris, a European crab apple.
“It tastes quite good. It’s a cooking apple or dual purpose, you can eat it, it’s got a bit of acidity but it’s got some flavour, and some tannin, which is what you have in cider apples." Wales Online.
Does this country have a death penalty?
The answer to the question in the title is an unequivocal 'yes'. Unfortunately however, it is solely exercised by criminals!
Over the ages, I wonder how many people have stopped and pondered the meaning of life. (More than eleven, I'd guess.)
Social decline seen via comics.
Go back 40+ years and comics played a valuable part in the maturing of young people.
Christians who have experienced God's love can be in no doubt as to its reality.
Unbelievers are hardly in any position to see this with their intellectually puerile, "God cannot exist because some really bad things happen" mantras.
Please. This Christmas - No jokey cards; no party cards; no irrelevant cards; no Dickensian cards; no cartoons; no irreverent cards and no smut.
One in EIGHT Britons believes Covid-19 pandemic is a 'plot', new figures reveal.
Why Are We Still Debating the 'Merits' of Socialism?
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Dear Christian.
Are you afraid of death? - If so, there is something profoundly amiss with your theology and/or experience!
(I think you can be reasonably be permitted to be a tad wary of the process - but not too much, of course!)
Animals have strops over virtually nothing – they're more like humans than we thought
'We found animals’ emotions influence unrelated behaviour, with those that won a contest experiencing a more positive mood'
Animals fall into prolonged bad moods over minor slights in the same way as humans, scientists have discovered....
The Songbird Survival Trust charity blame the larger birds - known as Picus picus in Latin - for contributing to the decline in other feathered garden creatures by raiding nests and eating eggs.
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