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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BUDWEISER '66 has got to be the beer to go for at the moment: it's new ( has to be good, doesn't it? ) and it boasts that it's "lightly carbonated" with a smooth, easy taste, which is a reassuring factoid for those who don't like their tastes "hard".
Whatever that ...
“THE ADJUSTMENT Bureau” is “must watch” material for fans of the Bourne movies.
Matt Damon plays a senatorial candidate who falls in love with a woman. But if he’s going to fulfil his destiny (and she hers) he has to let go of her.
The “Adjustment Bureau” are the shadowy “men in ...
ASTON VILLA refused “to give up the ghost” says The Sun. EastEnders character Pauline Fowler is described as “the salt of the earth”. The Daily Mirror fashion pages call Tilda Swinton “a law unto herself”.
They were all quoting the Bible, whether or not they realise it. To be precise, they ...
Some time ago, we posted on this blog the story of Sunitha Ramakrishna, and recently she has appeared on Channel 4 in a 90 second film. The question was: "Can changing faith change your life?"
The programme is '4thought.tv', which is "a space for sharing your thoughts on beliefs and ethics ...
A book has recently been published, featuring the Jesus Army. It’s called ‘Totally Devoted – the challenge of new monasticism’ and it explored ways in which Christians in the UK today are exploring how to follow God more closely – in ways that are similar to some of the ancient ...
ANN HAWKER, a manager at the Coventry Jesus Centre, described a recent journey she made from the city centre to the bus station, a walk of only a few hundred yards.
“I went down Lamb Street to post a letter. Outside the Sorting Office was Jim, who’d just been ...
WHAT MAKES mJa member Mim Beresford rave with excitement...
We were eating cake and talking God. Confronted with the question "How do you show God's kingdom today?" there was a brief pause. We digested the question, and stopped eating cake (briefly).
The answers we came up with had this in common: everything ...
“NOTHING from my past is gonna hold me back" says Becca Hopkins, 18, recently baptised.
"I've had a clean start and I'm excited about what the future holds."
Jesus died and rose, free from death. He invites us into this freedom. Christian baptism dramatically activates this. An old life is washed away ...
IN BELFAST, the Jesus Army recently held a five day long outreach “campaign”, with lots of different people from around the UK getting involved.
In a city with a painful history of sectarian division the Jesus Army's “friends of all without prejudice” approach aims to bring healing and help bridge some ...
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