CCTV footage from the riots in London last year captured their shocking nature vividly.

A dazed young man, profusely bleeding from his face, is helped to his feet by another man. Others stand around. Are they concerned?

They are - they are concerned to gain any valuables that they can from this ...

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FIFTEEN per cent of UK babies are born into homes with no resident dad. Half of them have no registered father on their birth certificate.

Family breakdown affects many more children, spearheaded by rising numbers of unmarried parents. By a child's fifth birthday, a shocking 43 per cent of cohabiting parents ...

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What makes mJa member Jon Jon Hilton rave with excitement...

Our first glimpse of God in the bible captures His awesome title as universal Creator of everything. It's His most basic, yet most thrilling attribute: the author of life has such authority that His words obey and create whatever He commands ...

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SHOCKING STATS show that we’re force-fed the equivalent of one advert every two minutes that we’re awake...

Mags, TV, Facebook, newspaper, tube, billboard, bus stop. Mr or Miss Average sees between 400 and 600 advertisements every day. That’s one advert every two waking minutes.

Every moment we’re fed helpful reminders that life ...

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WHAT MAKES mJa member Kirsty Stabler rave with excitement...

Christian Community: living together and sharing "all things in common" like the first Christians. What an awesome way to live!

I moved to Norwich when I was 17. I lived with my parents, but I wanted something more. There had to be more ...

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HOW MANY expensive cars, or anti-ageing creams, or perfumes, or luxury shampoos will it take before we match up to the "perfect people"?

A Youtube video produced by Dove shows a model sitting down, ready for a photoshoot. People buzz around her, applying make-up, doing her hair. Eventually she's ready and ...

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WHAT MAKES mJa member Piers Young rave with excitement:

We'd known Trish for years: addicted, gaunt, never smiled. She came to the Jesus Centre for basics, (she could be stroppy, too). But gradually she started thawing a bit. Then with support workers’ help, she got into a flat through the Jesus ...

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IN THE Jesus Centre Open Day poetry competition, the challenge was to write a poem on the theme of “the poor”. This was the winning poem:

Poor old

Poor little

Poor dear thing

Poor show

Poor me

Poorly feeling

Rich cake

Rich stew

Rich an’ famous

Rags to riches

That’s rich, that is

Keep up with the Joneses

Blind rich

Stinking rich

Sinking while they ...

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INCEPTION, STARRING Leonardo Di Caprio, is a film which has had people talking. Like The Matrix, it cleverly explores the nature of reality.

What would happen if people could invade our dreams? What is true, what is illusion?

In Shakespeare’s famous play, Hamlet, the hero tells his friend, Horatio, “there are more ...

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What makes mJa member Lizzie Kroon boil with rage...

There was outrage recently when it was discovered that a high street clothing store was selling "sexy" padded bikinis for girls as young as seven. Shocking! But, really, is it so surprising?

The whole advertising machine revolves around airbrushed, cabbage diet-induced, abnormally slim ...

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