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FIGHTING FOR HEARTS AND SOULS
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YEE-HA! Welcome to New Mexico in 1875. A spaceship of extraterrestrial beings is about to land on cowboy territory. But the town ain’t big enough for both the aliens and the cowboys. So who is outta here? Cinemagoers can find out by watching Cowboys and Aliens, released on Wednesday (17 August). The story gets off to a mysterious start. Lone cowboy Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig) stumbles into the old desert town of Turn to page 3
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CHURCHES OFFER HELP TO STRANDED RESIDENTS
Help at hand for riot victims in North London
Volunteers have been turning up at the Tottenham Green leisure centre to help the church sort through bags of clothes, food and household items which have been donated by the public. They are also serving refreshments to those who have lost their homes and directing them to services which can provide housing, financial and legal advice. ‘We are working closely with Haringey Council to support residents and businesses as they rebuild their lives and the community,’ said Major Muriel McClenahan, who has been working on the reception. ‘Many people have lost their homes in the riots.
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When they come into the centre for help, most of them speak very quietly, as if they don’t really want to draw attention to themselves. ‘Hundreds of people have offered to volunteer at the centre. They just want to help those who have been affected.’ After making donations of clothing and money, many members of the public have been asking The Salvation Army if there are further specific items which victims need. The stream of people turning up to donate has been constant. One young woman arrived to assist the Salvation Army team after learning about the centre on the internet. ‘This is my town and I want to do something for it,’ said Fran Roberts. ‘I found out about this location and decided to come along and help. People in the area are coming together to show that we don’t support the rioting but instead are working together as a community.’ Other churches in
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Above: teenage volunteers prepare to serve refreshments Left: a Salvation Army officer staffs the reception desk YOUR prayers are requested for John, who is recovering after a stroke and a heart attack; for Mary, who has ovarian cancer; and for those who suffered during the riots.
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surrounding areas are also supporting people after the riots. The Rev George Hargreaves, who is the pastor of the Hephzibah Christian Centre in Hackney, held a meeting with other church leaders in which they discussed ways to help victims of the violence, as well as the perpetrators and their families. ‘Churches are offering their services to the youth offending team in Hackney and advising the staff to
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put us in touch with any families who need to talk to someone,’ he says. ‘We are setting up a telephone service at Hephzibah so that church members can befriend victims, visit them and offer pastoral support. ‘The message that we want to get across to the rioters is that, although they have done wrong and must face the consequences under law for their actions, they can still be forgiven by God. Their lives can change hereafter.’ FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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Salvation Army staff are running the reception area of a community assistance centre which has been set up by Haringey Council to support victims.
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THE Salvation Army has been giving clothing, refreshments and advice to people who lost their homes and possessions in riots in North London.
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From page 1
We can tell God anything and know he loves us
Absolution. He is suffering with a stomach wound. A metal bracelet is locked on his wrist. But that is all Jake knows. He has no memory of his past. It isn’t long before Jake makes his first discovery – that the townsfolk don’t take kindly to strangers. He also learns that the people live in fear of Colonel Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford). But making friends is the least of Jake’s problems. Suddenly Absolution is attacked by weird creatures from the sky. They set the land and buildings on fire. The townsfolk run for their lives. But not all make it to safety. Some are abducted by the monsters. Those left behind are baffled. What on earth are these alien creatures? The cowboys have no idea how to fight back and rescue their loved ones. It becomes apparent that in the past Jake somehow had a connection to the cant person to make everything better. aliens. He discovers that his metal Perhaps a wife offloads her worries to bracelet has the power to kill them. her husband. Or an ill child puts all their Slowly, more of Jake’s memory returns. trust in a parent to make them better. He realises that he holds a secret thatTurning to loved ones when we are in could give the town a fighting chance trouble is a good idea – but it also comes against the space invaders. with risks. People are human, and Jake pulls together a mishmash army humans make mistakes. They let us of townsfolk, outlaws, Dolarhyde and down. They can’t always be there when his men and Apache warriors. They are we need them. They can’t always make all in danger of alien abduction. But things better. together they prepare to battle for their That is why so many people find it survival. helpful to turn to God – an ever-present Jake – the man who friend – not just in times of trouble but faced rejection before – every single day. seems to be the peoGod offers to listen to us ple’s only hope. in the middle of the night When life when we can’t speak to poses its probanyone else. He is willing lems, sometimes to comfort us when we can’t people find stop hurting. themselves pinIn the Bible, God says: ning all their ‘Don’t be afraid … When you hopes on one significross deep rivers, I will be with you, and you won’t drown. When you walk through fire, you won’t
be burnt’ (Isaiah 43:1, 2 Contemporary English Version). Through thick and thin, God promises to care for us. We can tell him anything and know that he still loves us. We can confess the bad things we have done to others and still be forgiven. Whatever comes our way, God offers to partner us.
The man who faced rejection seems to be the people’s only hope
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Amy ‘I
DON’T have a virtuoso voice. I can’t hit the big high notes that make everybody jump to their feet with applause. I just have a voice that sounds familiar to people,’ says US singer Amy Grant, who has been recording music for more than 30 years. ‘My friends have written songs which I think are unbelievably good, and yet I am the one who gets asked to go on tour. It doesn’t make any sense to me. Why is my phone ringing with offers, and not theirs?’
She has won six Grammys, recorded three multiplatinum albums and scored three UK Top 40 singles. But singer AMY GRANT tells Claire Brine that she has always been ‘a little baffled’ by her success
Amy spent her childhood singing in church and school, then during her teens she hit the music scene. And she was a hit. In 1977 she released her self-titled debut album. In 1982 she was the first contemporary Christian music artist to reach platinum status with the album Age to Age. She also secured her first Grammy. She scored her first and biggest hit in Britain in 1991 when ‘Baby Baby’ reached No 2 in the singles chart. Amy continues to write and record songs and go on tour. But it isn’t the glitz and glamour that attracts her to performing. She just enjoys making music. ‘I love the camaraderie that music creates,’ she says. ‘It doesn’t feel like work.’ Amy says there is no secret formula that she uses to come up with the ‘perfect’ song. Sometimes her creations surprise her. At other times she finds composing difficult. She reflects: ‘When I was younger
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I used to get writer’s block. I’d write some music which I thought was good and then think: “What if I can never do that again?” I only got over those feelings by making myself write another song, even if it was a bad one. ‘I take my inspiration from life experiences and from conversations I have with people. Sometimes I hear somebody say a certain phrase, but it will be years before I put it in a song. ‘When it comes to writing, I stop doing everything else, sit down and play my guitar. All of a sudden I’ll think: “Oh, I like how that sounds”, then words start coming to me. To create something out of nothing – to take the time to write a song which articulates something that matters to me – is an amazing feeling.’ Amy is not afraid to be vocal about her Christian faith through her music. She expresses her belief in God through songs such as ‘Father’s Eyes’ and ‘Arms
of Love’. But how did she become a Christian? ‘My parents took me to church as a child. I remember my mother saying: “If you can learn to follow the leading of God’s Holy Spirit, then your life will be more exciting than any secret agent’s.” She was right. ‘I was so intrigued by people who had a strong faith. I wanted whatever they had.’ Amy is still intrigued by faith. Sometimes situations occur in which she feels prompted to speak up or act in a certain way. At such times she believes she is hearing from God. ‘Jesus is the Son of God. He is my rescuer. Through him, I am able to live,’ she says.
To create something out of nothing is an amazing feeling
Amy Grant in concert
‘When I was younger, my mother told me that she loved me very much, but that God loved me even more. Being accepted by him has meant that I haven’t felt an overwhelming need for acceptance in the world of celebrity. If my feelings of importance were to come from my levels of popularity, I would have been in for a wild ride.’ Amy explains that the way in which she values herself is ‘completely changed by having a faith’. ‘Sometimes I have composed songs which I thought were great but others thought were hideous. Sometimes my songs have been on the radio, sometimes they haven’t. ‘But I have to write what comes into my head. I am always glad to have new ideas. I also believe that it is good to have a very full life aside from my music. I love my family. I love travelling. I love the outdoors. Real life is about investing in relationships.’
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Effect and cause AS traders pick up the pieces of ruined businesses, the question of who is to blame for the arson and looting on city streets hangs like a languid pall of smoke from a dampened-down furniture store.
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YOUNG Tottenham Hotspur player John Bostock has revealed that a number of young players at London football clubs are ‘running after God’ rather than ‘chasing girls’. In an interview recorded for Premier Christian Radio’s Men @ Work show, the teenager spoke about his Christian faith and said that a number of players ‘meet together often’ in order to ‘seek God’. The midfielder, who became the youngest player in Tottenham’s history when he made his debut aged 16, also explained that his faith affected the way he played. He said: ‘You have to take your off-thefield values on the pitch, because we’re called to be salt and light. So, if you’re saying one thing about your faith and then on the pitch you’re playing like everyone else, is there really anything different?’
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Media commentators were quick to finger the use of social networking sites, smart phones, ineffectual parents, rap music and a holidaying Prime Minister. Community leaders and a recalled Parliament have given considered thought to the inconsiderate behaviour of what one tabloid described as ‘feral thugs’. Shopowners and residents whose property was attacked wanted quite reasonably to know where the police were. Politicians wanted to know where the police were, forgetting that they were the ones who had cut police recruitment. These were not moral protests. Rioters backed no cause other than to get their hands on a telly or a pair of trainers. Hundreds of young people across the country who torched, mugged and stole didn’t forget the name of the armed man shot dead by police that triggered the riots in Tottenham. They never knew it in the first place. One man’s death – a shallow and callous excuse for selfish greed. No respect for the dead – nor for the living. Godlessness is to blame. Our increasingly secular, self-centred and materialistic society is reaping what it has sown. A society that neglects to pass on – and model – to its young responsibility, respect and reverence fails them. Britain has been desensitising its Christian moral compass. People don’t want to hear about moral absolutes. They reject God. They reject the biblical concepts of right and wrong, good and evil. They don’t want God mentioned. They want to live to please themselves. And this is the mess that results. True people of faith do not loot, maim, rob or burn. They build. They repair. They help. They heal. Until our nation finds it way back to God, society will increasingly fail.
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Congregation has been driven bats A CHURCH has had to suspend services after bats infested the building and drove the congregation out, reported The Daily Telegraph. Hundreds of bats have covered the altar in droppings and dive-bombed worship-
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pers at St Hilda’s Church in Ellerburn, North Yorkshire. Some members of the church have become ill since coming into contact with the bats’ waste. According to the paper, the bats are a protected species and it is an offence to disturb them. ‘Our congregation has halved as a result over the last ten years,’ said church warden Liz Cowley. ‘We have tried to keep the church clean but have lost the battle. The congregation is the endangered species, not the bats.’
CINEMA and TV actor David Oyelowo – a star of the new Rise of the Planet of the Apes film – told The Times about his Christian faith. ON THE BOX He said: ‘When I was 16 THE Proms performance of Verdi’s Requiem by the I struck a deal BBC Symphony Orchestra and a 400-voice choir, conducted by Semyon Bychkov is with God … “If to be broadcast on BBC Four you’re true, if tomorrow (Sunday 21 August 7 pm). you’re real, turn up within three months or I’m out!” Well, much to my chagrin at the time, he did.’ The actor also revealed that he had felt directed by God to play Martin Luther King in the forthcoming film Selma. BBC/CHRIS CHRISTODOULOU
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pounding OVERWEIGHT Britons are in denial about their weight and continue to eat an unhealthy diet despite health warnings about obesity, according to new research by the makers of weight-loss aid Alli. One in five overweight people questioned said they hadn’t tried to lose their excess weight at all. Fifty-four per cent of overweight and obese people blamed their weight on eating too much, 49 per cent on eating the wrong foods, and 46 per cent on snacking. The survey of 8,500 overweight and Library pictures posed by models obese people across Europe revealed that almost half of British people Alli spokesperson Holly losing weight and maintaining with a BMI (body mass index) and by the time some people of 28–29.9 have been trying to reach a BMI of 36 or greater Turner says: ‘We undertook their weight loss over the long lose weight for less than six they feel ‘blamed and shamed’ this research to gain a better term. It seems that the higher about their weight by society understanding of the barriers the weight, the harder people months. that are preventing people from find it to tackle successfully.’ Results showed that as BMI and themselves. increases, people become less likely to sustain their weight loss. Seventy-six per cent of British women with a BMI of WITH summer in full proud of yourself when 30–35.9 had lost weight but subswing, it’s time to take you succeed. sequently regained it. advantage of the great G Air pollution triggers Among those who outdoors. The UK’s heart attacks, so take had a BMI of 36 or national parks and advantage of green greater, this figure moorland offer more surroundings and go Look out for the rose to 77 per cent. than 54 billion square for a brisk walk in your health benefits By the time people of the outdoors miles of glorious local park, to top up find themselves in the countryside to explore levels of heart-healthy higher BMI groups and enjoy, making the vitamin D. country the ultimate they have been stuck G Whether it’s walking, ‘green gym’. jogging, cycling, in an unsuccessful Whether the weather skating or a ‘green ‘weight-loss’ trap for is hot or raining, the gym’ workout, being in longer. natural environment can the fresh air will help The research also provide lots of relieve stress and suggested that years opportunities to help you encourage a good of unsuccessful lead a healthy lifestyle. night’s sleep. weight-loss attempts G Push yourself to reach Health tip provided by Heart can have a negative a summit, a milestone Research UK. For more psychological impact,
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For the (fossil) From a schoolboy fossil-hunter on a Dorset beach to a world authority scouring sites in Canada and China, SIMON CONWAY MORRIS has seen his career evolve. The Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at Cambridge University talks to Nigel Bovey about his discoveries in the worlds of faith and science NIGEL BOVEY
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Professor Conway Morris, when did you know you wanted to be a scientist? When I was about eight or nine years old, my mother gave me a book of stickers of prehistoric animals. It fired my imagination and from then on I decided I wanted to work on fossils. My parents were generous and took me fossil-collecting to places such as Charmouth. I studied geology at Bristol University and then did a PhD at Cambridge. What is evolutionary palaeobiology? Palaeobiology is the study of extinct organisms. In On the Origin of Species Darwin presented many lines of evidence to show that evolution is a fact. One of those lines of evidence is the fossil record. The main argument in palaeobiology is that the major transitions – for example, the origin of humans – can be investigated only through the
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Left: A cove on Dorset’s fossilfilled Jurassic Coast
fossil record. We can infer that we are very closely related to chimpanzees but if you want to learn what the common ancestor looked like, then you will have to employ a palaeontologist.
What does the fossil record say about the age of the Earth? The oldest minerals recovered from this planet come in at just under 4.4 billion years old – within 200 million years of the formation of the solar system. The reason we don’t have the original record is because the Earth’s crust has been continuously recycled so these little minerals – zircons – have been recycled into younger rocks. After extracting the zircons from the rocks, scientists put them into a mass spectrometer, which calculates the relative ratio of the radiogenic isotopes, and get a reliable date of 4.4 billion years. The issue of the fossil record is
The term ‘missing link’ is freighted with assumptions
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For years people have been looking for a ‘missing link’ as conclusive evidence that humans are descended from apes. Is there a missing link? I am not an expert on human evolution, but the term ‘missing link’ is freighted with all sorts of expectations and assumptions. If we mean finding fossil remains which are reasonably interpreted as intermediate between ourselves and some set of ancestors, then that is a missing link. It may be that at certain times, things happened rather rapidly – for instance, the invasion of air or the invasion of land – and that the fossil record is not perfect. The fossil record is incomplete, but – as in all science – there often comes a point where we can say beyond reasonable doubt what we will discover next. Sometimes we find something unexpected, such as the ‘Hobbit’ – Homo floresiensis – from 20,000 years ago, who were discovered in 2004 on Flores Island in Indonesia. They were about a metre high, had a brain the size of a chimpanzee’s, yet seem to have been fully human.
If ten years ago you’d asked any archaeologist if they expected to find some extremely primitive hominoids living in almost historical memory in the Indonesian archipelago, they would have thought you were crazy. The discovery of the ‘Hobbit’ did not render previous discoveries redundant. There are gaps in our knowledge. There will always be gaps but we are not in need of a defining ‘missing link’.
Above: The beach at Charmouth is a haven for young fossil-hunters
controversial as to the first definite signs of life, but it is generally accepted that there was life on Earth around 3.5 billion years ago. How did life on Earth start? One idea is that the first cells formed in deep-sea vents. Another is that life arrived on meteorites from elsewhere in the solar system – Mars, for instance. At the moment, we simply don’t know. To what extent is the biblical account
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10 The War Cry 20 August 2011 Professor Conway Morris and Dr Jon Ineson collate findings at Sirius Passet, Peary Land, Greenland
From page 9 of how life started in conflict with a scientific explanation? The Bible is not a scientific textbook and I’m not a theologian. Genesis is a description of a creative activity. All of us, scientists or not, are dealing with incomplete truths and trying to find ways to explain who we are. Some atheists and agnostics would explain life in dry, reductionist, bleak terms – there is nothing around us; life is an accident. I think that God creating the world out of nothing – ex nihilo – as Genesis states, is a perfectly reasonable supposition. The idea that creation was extremely good but the world has gone badly wrong is a metaphysical statement which, when put alongside the idea of salvation, is the best you could possibly want. Genesis talks about humans being made ‘in the image of God’. What do you understand by that phrase? It speaks to me of the fact that humans can know and communicate with God, that the world is rationally organised, and that the world is not an accident. The fact is we know the world, we understand the world, we think the world is beautiful and we love it. These are things we share in common with God and that is the image we mirror. To what extent are scientific and faith perspectives incompatible? Science is about learning new things. When we learn new things we may need to reconsider what we believe to be the truth. New ideas do not mean that previously held beliefs are necessarily false, but they need to be reviewed. If one subscribes, as I do, to a particular theology of Creation or to the idea of the Incarnation, then anything science tells us will not change that basic belief. It may be, though, that the world we see is configured in a way which surprises us, and we will only know that through science. When people entrench themselves in a particular set of assumptions, it is difficult for them to have a dialogue with others. If you always deal in one metaphysic, then you are likely to see the world only through one set of lenses. Theologically, I disagree with Richard Dawkins but through his writings I sense his enthusiasm and enchantment with the world. How viable is the claim by some atheists that science has all the answers? It would be a very strange metaphysic that explained everything. Religious fundamentalists do the same.
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They say they have sorted it all out. This is a very odd approach to the complexities of life. Since Darwin published his ideas, the theory of evolution has been a battleground. Some Christians believe evolution is unbiblical; some atheists claim evolution shows that God is redundant. Why has this scientific theory attracted so much non-scientific attention? Thomas Henry Huxley, an atheist and
contemporary supporter of Darwin, was very sceptical of any theology. Huxley, who in his day was as articulate as Dawkins is today, managed to persuade many people that Darwin’s idea on natural selection obviated the need for God. Today’s young Earth creationists are fundamentally following in the footsteps of those people who resisted Huxley. The idea that humankind is merely a twig on Darwin’s tree of life in the
God creating the world out of nothing – ex nihilo – as Genesis states, is a perfectly reasonable supposition
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Miracles are beyond the realms of science
organisms which look remarkably unalike are actually doing the same thing. For instance, the way insects and mammals walk is basically the same.
register signals from outside. That could mean that they are mere robots, but they are not. Where, then, does this selfawareness come from, let alone ethics or morality, if not ultimately from a creator? Do science and Christianity each have questions the other is not designed to answer? Science and faith have been described as non-overlapping magisteria – two completely separate entities. That to me is unsatisfactory. There are areas of overlap. But there is a great deal of unfinished business. Do you believe in an afterlife? As it happens, I think there is good empirical evidence for the afterlife, but I certainly can’t describe the exact details! The problems come when people of faith say that the claims to which they subscribe are so overwhelmingly important that they will not consider those claims in the light of scientific insight. Science can tell us the ‘how?’ about the world but it doesn’t tell us the ‘why?’.
middle of a meaningless cosmos is one that Christians find unacceptable. Christians believe that life is a gift from God and has purpose, that good exists and that things matter. But if science is saying that the world is more wonderfully made than maybe we at first realised, then we should recognise that. If we only look at the world either through faith or through science, our view will remain impoverished. Do you believe that God created the Universe? Yes. Evolution is simply the method by which the Universe becomes selfaware. The question is: ‘Why are we self-aware?’ Even organisms far simpler than an animal are sentient. They are complex in terms of their ability to
Are humans the end of the evolutionary process? Astronomers are discovering planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars – exoplanets. They are particularly interested in the possibilities of life on any Earth-like planets. In my view the study of evolution is like any other science – it is predictable. I now have a very good idea about what we would find on any other planet, simply because all the mechanisms of evolution have been learnt on this planet and have reevolved repeatedly – the phenomenon known as convergent evolution. What is convergent evolution? It is simply the observation that the same biological solution has evolved independently. So, for example, the eye of the octopus is effectively constructed in identical fashion to our own eye – the ‘camera eye’. The common ancestor did not possess that camera eye. Convergence suggests that the number of solutions is much smaller than people realise – that in many cases
Can science prove the existence of God? No. The way the world is constructed is consistent with the existence of God but that is not proof; it is evidence. Seeing is not believing. The evidence can stare you in the face and you don’t recognise it. How and when did you become a Christian? I was baptised in the Church of England as a child. I was confirmed. When I married I purposely wanted to marry in church to feel I belonged to a wider faith community. The main motor in my faith is similar to that of people such as C. S. Lewis – an intellectual assent rather than an emotional response to the gospel, though I understand the nature of the personal claims in Christianity. What convinces you that Jesus is who he says he is? The evidence of the witnesses to the Resurrection. The individual accounts are consistent. These were not stories that were worth making up. The gospel narrative hangs together. There is, what scientists call, an internal consistency. If you then buy into the idea of the Trinity and of Creation ex nihilo plus the notion that Jesus was neither mad nor bad when he said he was God, then it rings true. To what extent does your faith affect your science? Some atheists will say that my faith has corrupted my science, but I would remind them that they too bring a metaphysic to their work. Does science explain miracles? Miracles are beyond the realm of current science. Jesus didn’t perform miracles as a kind of firework display; he did them for a completely different reason. There is something about us and our world that allows some very odd things to happen. These aren’t ‘scientific’ occasions, but there are few people who don’t have at least one occasion in their lives that is uncanny. This would be consistent with the fact that miracles can happen – that the world operates in a way that we don’t fully comprehend.
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Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9
Look up, down, forwards, backwards and diagonally on the grid to find these parts of a mechanical sewing machine
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QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS 1. Fling (4) 3. Pen point (3) 5. Diesel oil (4) 7. Boundary (9) 9. Den (4) 10. Bargain (4) 11. Shock (5) 14. Brush (5) 15. Shaft (5) 17. Copying (5) 18. Planet (5) 19. Coagulated (5) 20. Follow (5) 23. Shut noisily (4) 25. Nautical mph (4) 27. Enlarged by lens (9) 28. Bucket (4) 29. Besides (3) 30. Cranny (4)
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HONEYCOMB Each solution starts on the coloured cell and reads clockwise round the number 1. Place where bells are housed 2. Cricket target 3. Standard of measurement 4. Supply a forgotten word or line to an actor DOWN 1. Cure (4) 2. Unpleasant look (4) 3. Whinny (5) 4. Shatter (5) 5. Perished (4) 6. Face cover (4) 7. Impossible wish (4, 5) 8. Chastise (9) 11. Digging tool (5) 12. Faulty (5) 13. Bird of prey (5) 14. Stitch (3) 16. For what reason (3) 21. Child’s nurse (5) 22. In poor health (5) 23. Halt (4) 24. Post (4) 25. Eager (4) 26. Speak (4)
5. Small in size 6. Person in scientific research
QUICK QUIZ 1. What is the capital city of Tunisia? 2. In which film does a character named Dorothy Gale say: ‘There’s no place like home’? 3. Someone with acrophobia is afraid of what? 4. In which year was VAT introduced in the UK? 5. Where would you find a purser? 6. What do the initials YMCA stand for?
QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Hurl. 3 Nib. 5 Derv. 7 Perimeter. 9 Lair. 10 Deal. 11 Shake. 14 Sweep. 15 Arrow. 17 Aping. 18 World. 19 Lumpy. 20 Ensue. 23 Slam. 25 Knot. 27 Magnified. 28 Pail. 29 Yet. 30 Nook. DOWN: 1 Heal. 2 Leer. 3 Neigh. 4 Break. 5 Died. 6 Veil. 7 Pipe dream. 8 Reprimand. 11 Spade. 12 Amiss. 13 Eagle. 14 Sew. 16 Why. 21 Nanny. 22 Unfit. 23 Stop. 24 Mail. 25 Keen. 26 Talk. QUICK QUIZ 1 Tunis. 2 The Wizard of Oz. 3 Heights. 4 1973. 5 On a ship. 6 Young Men’s Christian Association. HONEYCOMB 1 Belfry. 2 Wicket. 3 Metric. 4 Prompt. 5 Little. 6 Boffin.
INNER LIFE
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To commemorate this year’s 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, PHILIPPA SMALE looks at some everyday expressions popularised by BOOK the translation
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‘But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth’ (Matthew 6:3)
IT was Children in Need day and Marie was listening to the radio. People were invited to phone in, donate money and request a record. The presenters were doing their best to fit as many requests as possible into the programmes. Marie phoned up to pledge £25, and the person who answered the phone asked if she would like to choose a record to go with the donation. ‘I don’t suppose there’s much of a chance. There are so many people asking for records,’ she said. ‘You never know,’ came the answer. So she picked a record. About an hour later the presenter said: ‘The next record is for Marie who has donated £25 to Children in Need. She has requested “I’m a Believer” by the Monkees.’ Marie was thrilled to have a record played on the radio but she was a little uncomfortable about people knowing how much she had given (and indeed what song she had chosen). After all, didn’t Jesus say something about how to give money? Something to do with left hands and right hands? She consoled herself with the thought that not many of her friends would be listening to the radio. Today, the expression about left and right hands is often used to describe confusion. For example, two government departments issue what seem to be conflicting statements. Jesus, though, used it
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to describe a level of secrecy. ‘When you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you’ (Matthew 6:3, 4 New International Version). Our giving to good causes should be done quietly so that not even our left hand knows what our right is doing. Essayist Charles Lamb once said: ‘The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.’ And Jesus challenges our motives for giving. He addresses what we get from giving. Some people give to gain a reputation – to be well thought of by others. Jesus says there is a greater reward to giving money (as there is to the spending of life). Those who make the pleasing of God their priority will be rewarded.
Some people give to gain a reputation – to be well thought of by others
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APPARENTLY, Mark Zuckerberg is worth £9 billion and has 500 million ‘friends’. But I doubt that he knows them all personally. They are actually users of his social networking site, Facebook.
them to get his message across. I have a feeling that he would have preferred to meet people in person, to spend time with them in reality. Jesus shared many happy and sad times with his friends. He attended their weddings. He ate meals with them. He supported them through times of bereavement. He cared for them when they were ill. Jesus wasn’t distant in his dealings with people back then, and neither does he want to be distant from our lives today. He wants to form a personal relationship with us. He wants us to talk to him. ‘Come to me’ was his invitation. It still is. When we become friends with Jesus, we can turn to him any time of day, any day of the week. He knows everything about us – including the bad bits – and likes us anyway. Even though we may let him down, he never stops wanting to know us. That’s the reality.
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Sites such as Facebook and Twitter are amazing innovations of the 21st century. In the past, many people used to want to protect their privacy, but today it seems they feel comfortable in sharing their innermost thoughts with their virtual friends and acquaintances. Through Facebook, Zuckerberg seems to be meeting the need that people have to interact with others, day and night. But as users turn to the internet to keep in touch with their friends, what has happened to face-toface contact? Is it on its way out of fashion? If social networking sites had existed in the past, I wonder if Jesus would have used
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Stuffed oranges Ingredients: 450g strawberries, hulled and quartered 4 large oranges 225g cottage cheese A little milk Grated rind of ½ orange 50g sugar 2tbsp orange juice, freshly squeezed Method: Cut the tops off the oranges to form a lid, then scoop out the flesh. Remove all the white pith and seeds, then chop. Push the cottage cheese through a sieve until smooth. If the cheese is too thick, thin it down by adding a little milk. (Alternatively, use a liquidiser rather than a sieve.) Stir the orange rind, sugar and orange juice into the cheese mixture. Fold in the strawberries and orange flesh. Fill the oranges with the fruity cheese mixture and replace the lids. Chill before serving. Tip: As a variation, grapefruit may be stuffed in the same way.
Cocktail sausage barbecue kebabs Ingredients: 12–16 cocktail sausages 1 red pepper, deseeded and cut into chunks 1 green pepper, deseeded and cut into chunks For the glaze 3tbsp hoisin sauce 2tbsp honey 1tbsp tomato purée Method: Thread the sausages and pepper chunks alternately onto the skewers. Mix together the glaze ingredients. SUDOKU SOLUTION
Brush the glaze over each kebab, then cook on the barbecue or under a preheated grill. Turn the kebabs frequently and continue to baste with the glaze. Serve with noodles and a mixed salad. Serves 4
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JUDGE MEANT: Louis Walsh (left) is joined by three new faces
CHANGE Someone is always ready to listen to us
HAVE you got it? Yep, it’s that time of year again. ITV1’s The X Factor is gracing our TV screens tonight (Saturday 20 August). writes RENÉE DAVIS In time-honoured fashion, the series kicks off with the auditions, where judges listen to aspiring will be whittled down to Walsh is being joined by just 12 acts. Week after Take That singer Gary pop stars. The boot camp stage follows, in which those who have been chosen from the auditions are given the chance to prove and improve their talent. After a few rounds of elimination, the hopefuls
week, they will compete for a £1 million recording contract and a shot at the Christmas No 1. While much of the show is familiar, there is a new look to the judging panel. Original judge Louis
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ent show, The X Factor’s new faces. Each of them has firsthand experience of the pop Barlow, N-Dubz singer industry, so they know what Tulisa Contostavlos and it takes to be a hit. founding member of The question is, though, Destiny’s Child Kelly will the new judges change Rowland. They are, in the the show for the better? words of an earlier TV talFor some of us, change is tough. It can be difficult to adjust to a new job, a move to a different city or country or the loss of a loved one. Sometimes change is for the better. We Will the new could have been going through a judges change rough patch or the show for the been caught up in a situation better? that caused us
pain. It’s a relief when it’s over. Whatever new faces come our way, we can take comfort in knowing that there is one person who never changes. The Bible explains that ‘Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever’ (Hebrews 13:8 New International Version). Just as he helped, healed and forgave those who asked him when he lived on earth, so Jesus continues to do so today. He offers us peace instead of turmoil, hope instead of despair and forgiveness instead of judgment. He is ready to listen to us.
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