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I was 19 and I found my girlfriend in bed with three blokes. It sent me off the rails. I ended up homeless. I rang my Dad, who had left when I was six. He put me in a B&B. I embezzled the money out of the landlord’s bank account. I avoided the ...

I always wanted to be married and a mother. Jeremiah 29.11 means the most to me. It says, “’For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’” I got m...

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While God’s mercy is affirmed in the book of Lamentations 3.21–24, Dr Heath Thomas explores how the cry of 'kyrie eleison!' can become a model for the Church today.

‘Psalm 93 has been particularly helpful to me. I was in Nigeria in 2013 and my brother, who is diabetic, fell into a coma. We didn’t know he was diabetic. He collapsed at home. He was paralysed, like he’d had a stroke. We took him to hospital. ...

‘I was in my early 30s and had been approached by several people to become a minister. I thought, “Not me. You are joking.” I was working at the GPO. It seemed like a good reliable job. I had a wonderful free life, a good salary, I travelled an...

I’m 91. So, in theory, I’ve been shielding. I go for walks, keeping well away from everybody. Occasionally, I knock on people’s doors and stand behind the hedge and talk to people. I use a lot of Zoom to pray for people. I do quite a lot of pho...

The day I came down with the coronavirus was a bit shocking really. I had done a set of nights at the hospital and started to feel a bit rotten. I thought it might be the cycle ride I had done. Maybe I’d overdone it. I woke up the next morning and ...

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‘In 2003 I went to Uganda. I was treasurer of a charity and I went to visit the work I'd been supporting. I had never been abroad before and never gone on a long-haul flight so it was a major event for me, more so because a few years previously I'd...

‘I recently received a diagnosis of cancer. The scripture I read then was John 17.13, where Jesus prayed for his disciples that “they might have my joy in their hearts in all its fullness”. Also, a friend prayed that I would experience “peace...

Tom's still reading the Bible. Hurrah. Here's what he's learning.

Dutch art, TED talks and the Gospels – they all feature in theologian Marijke Hoek's exploration of Jesus' acts of mercy and how we can respond. 

‘The verse that means the most to me is 2 Corinthians 12.9, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness”. I became a Christian in 1990 and initially had an amazing experience, but then fell under the influence of o...

We are so excited to be at Big Church Day Out this year, officially hosting spoken word at the biggest Christian festival in the UK for the very first time.

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I studied medicine at Oxford. It was awesome. I rowed and coxed, edited the medical school gazette and was on the student committee. I had a great group of friends. We went out and drank a lot, and basically, I got more and more fuelled by my own amb...