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“I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I’m not the same, the next question is ‘Who in the world am I?’ Ah, that’s the great puzzle!”
Alice, Alice in Wonderland
OK. Is it possible to tweet the Gospel? In 140 characters or less: What does faith mean to you?
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless
- Mother Teresa
Pope Benedict XVI has been nominated for a top British classical music award and will fight for the prize against reality television stars.
The Pope was shortlisted for the Classical Brit Awards album of the year for his singing on the album Alma Mater – Music From the Vatican.
There are 10 contenders vying for the prize, including two from British reality television shows: Britain’s Got Talent star Faryl Smith and the X-Factor’s Rhydian Roberts.
Read it here.
Also up against the German-born pontiff are three Catholic clerics in a group called The Priests, with their second release Harmony.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
- Mark Twain
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
- Jacques Prevert
Today (4 February) is World Cancer Day.
The theme of the campaign is: Cancer can be prevented too.
Here is what the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) President Professor David Hill said: “Of the 12 million people who are diagnosed with cancer each year around 20% of cases can be attributed to viral and bacterial infections that either directly cause or increase the risk of cancer.”
You can download a lot of resources including an ecard (available in English, French and Spanish) to pass on to someone you love that highlights one of six lifestyle changes that can help to prevent cancer.
The campaign looks at how the risk of developing cancer can significantly be reduced through simple measures:
For more information or to send an ecard to a loved one, click here.
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
- C.S. Lewis
Photo by Aneta Blaszczyk
“Real men don’t like going to church because they don’t want to “sing love songs to a man”, because the “vicar wears a dress”, because they feel like “mongrels on parade at Crufts” and because they want to be waited on by women rather than queue for coffee after the service.”
At least that is what a TimesOnline story said the charity, Christian Vision for Men, were concerned about.
Read the whole story here.
So how do me ‘man up’ churches while not alienating women? I know the Men’s Shed movement is doing great things but how do we get a bit of that into the Sunday morning service? Or is that not what men want?