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FIGHTING FOR HEARTS AND SOULS 27 July 2013
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There is no set formula to becoming a Christian, but many people have found saying this prayer to be a helpful first step to a relationship with God.
Lord Jesus Christ,I am truly sorry for the things I have done wrong in my life. Please forgive me. I now turn from everything that I know is wrong.Thank you that you died on the cross for me so that I could be forgiven and set free.Thank you that you offer me forgiveness and the gift of your Holy Spirit.Please come into my life by your Holy Spirit to be with me for ever.Thank you, Lord Jesus. Amen
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Schools aim to make the grade on RE
Extract from Why Jesus? by Nicky Gumbel published by Alpha International, 2011. Used by kind permission of Alpha International
IN a news report – ‘Centre Residents Thrash House Team’ – (13 July) we wrongly credited Booth House, Swindon, with beating a team of parliamentarians at football. The winning side was, in fact, Booth House, Whitechapel. Nice result, lads!
A CHURCH diocese and Christian charity are helping to build affordable housing in Gloucester.
The project in Frampton Road is a partnership between the Anglican Diocese of Gloucester and Housing Justice, along with Gloucester City Council and the developers Rooftop.
Built on church land, the development will include nine one-bedroom flats for young homeless people, two three-bedroom affordable houses and two one-bedroom houses for shared ownership.
Representatives from the organisations behind the project met on site to check progress. Building work began in March and is due to be completed by November.
The development is part of Housing Justice’s Faith in Affordable Housing scheme to help churches make spare land available so that affordable new housing can be built.
The Bishop of Gloucester, the Right Rev Michael Perham, and Rooftop social housing representative Rachel Lathan visit the site
Church land opens doors for homeless people
THE Salvation Army served meals to
emergency services personnel and people evacuated from their homes as a wildfire spread in Arizona.
The organisation also provided support to personnel who were planning the funerals and a memorial service for 19 firefighters who lost their lives while tackling the blaze.
SCHOOLS will be able to apply for a new quality mark recognising that they teach religious education to a high standard.
The Religious Education Council for England and Wales is inviting schools to apply for the RE Quality Mark (REQM), which it has been running as a trial over the past two years.
Teachers and students from 11 of the schools which have achieved the REQM attended a launch at the House of Lords, where MP Stephen Lloyd, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Religious Education, praised the way the schools had integrated RE across their activities and taught it as a subject in its own right.
He said: ‘RE has been overlooked by curriculum changes and severely restricted by a lack of specialist teachers and training opportunities, so it is very positive to see so many schools standing up for the subject.’
A MEMBER of Bishop’s Stortford Baptist Church who keeps a narrowboat has been commissioned as a chaplain for a 25-mile stretch of the River Stort. Barbara Davis has been appointed to provide spiritual and pastoral care to people along the river by Workplace Matters, a faith-based charity which takes Christian values into working environments.
CHRISTIAN Solidarity Worldwide says that eight members of the Church of Iran in Shiraz
have been sentenced to jail after being found guilty of ‘action against the national security’ and ‘propaganda against the order of the system’. Calling the charges ‘political’, the human rights group says that the Christians ‘in no way constitute a threat to the state’.
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Fireworks at the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 Olympics
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THEY began with a bang. There were fireworks. There was sing-ing and dancing. There was Beckham, Bond and Bean. And the Queen dropped in. Today (Saturday 27 July) is the first anniver-sary of the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics.
A year ago, Britons were on track for a fortnight of travelling to sports venues (three million journeys were made on one day in London alone), trying to get hold of tickets and watching Mo, Jessica, Sir Chris and others on TV.
And once the Olympics had finished, everyone did it all over again to see Paralympians such as David Weir, Hannah Cockroft and Ellie Simmonds.
Before the Olympics and Paralympics, organisers insisted that the events would leave a legacy.
A year down the road, the Anniversary Games are tak-ing place at the Olympic Park. The athletes are back – and so has been the scramble for tickets. The three-day event is a sell-out.
A new report suggests other effects of London 2012.Inspired by 2012, published last week by the
Government and Mayor of London, claims that more peo-ple – including more disabled people – are participating in sport. It says that healthy living sport clubs in schools have increased. It notes that 81 per cent of people sur-veyed thought the Paralympic Games had a positive effect on how disabled people are viewed by the British public.
According to the report, London 2012 is bringing money into the UK economy, providing regeneration in the shape of new affordable housing and community venues and has resulted in a rise in the number of people volunteering.
Was the UK onto a winner with London 2012? Has it changed activity and attitudes? Time may tell. Legacies are a marathon, not a sprint.
The Opening Ceremony itself was an acknowledge-ment of the legacies that, for good or ill, the host country
of the Olympics had acquired after centuries of history. When Kenneth Branagh recited from The Tempest, it recognised the literary legacy left by Shakespeare. As workers wielded hammers and pulled levers, it por-trayed the legacy of the Industrial Revolution. When children leapt on hospital beds, it celebrated the NHS.
And when Emeli Sandé accompanied a section which hinted at love and loss by singing ‘Abide With Me’ it portrayed another legacy.
The hymn suggested that faith has been a part of our history – and is part of our present.
What is more, it highlighted a legacy – the com-forting presence of Jesus – that lasts not just for a few years, but ‘in life, in death’.
The hymn tells of how Jesus can be there for any-one in ‘every passing hour’ to remove bitterness from tears and ultimately to defeat ‘death’s sting’.
The legacy is there. Do we want to run with it?
Has London 2012 changed activity and attitudes?
Front page: Chris Hoy, Jessica Ennis-Hill and Hannah Cockroft win gold at London 2012
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WHEN Lindsay Meader is not working in her day job as the
associate rector of St James’s Church in London’s Piccadilly, she takes on another role. She volunteers as a chaplain at the Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue.
‘Being a theatre chaplain is all about turning up, hang-ing around and being part of the furniture,’ says Lindsay, who is the Senior Chaplain of Theatre Chaplaincy UK, formerly known as the Actors’ Church Union. ‘It’s my job to be there for everyone who works at the theatre, whether they’re actors, front-of-house and box-office staff, stage crew, costume and wig staff or company managers.
‘I try to go into the Apollo every seven to ten days, but if people want to see me in between visits, they know my contact details so can easily get hold of me.’
Lindsay has been a theatre chaplain for three years. When new people arrive to work at the theatre, she ensures they receive a welcome card. During performanc-es, she often hangs around with the front-of-house staff, playing cards and doing crosswords. Subjects of conver-sation range from general chit-chat to deeper issues of faith. When it is time for people to move on to the bright lights of another stage, she lets them know that they will be in her prayers.
‘At its heart, theatre chaplaincy is about encourage-ment,’ says Lindsay. ‘There is a lot of anxiety in the per-forming business, because it’s a world of people getting their hopes up, being knocked back, shows coming to an end and uncertainty about the future. People who arrive at the Apollo straight from drama school are often nervous because it is their first job. Not every company is as happy as you might think, so I am there as a confidential, neutral, listening ear.
‘I also try to show an interest in people. A lot of theatre staff are performers in their own right and they are waiting for their next job. So to have a chaplain who comes in and
LINDSAY MEADER tells Claire Brine about life as a chaplain at a West End theatre
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excluded from church by the nature or the logistics of their profession. He thought it would be great for everyone working in theatre to have access to their local priest, wherever they were based. He got some colleagues on board and chaplains started to crop up all over the country. The Actors’ Church Union was born.’
Last year, the organisation’s name was changed to Theatre Chaplaincy UK, as chaplains wanted to
make it clear that their services were available to everyone associated with the theatre, not just actors.
‘We also knew that the word “Church” had negative connotations for some people, so we chose to use the word “chaplaincy” instead,’ says Lindsay. ‘Most people have heard about chaplains being in hospitals, schools, prisons and the Armed Forces, so they know something about what such a role entails. They under-stand that a chaplain is someone who will come alongside them – whatever they are going through – and provide hope.’
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asks them how their audition went last week – and does not just see them as so-and-so who sells the programmes – is really important.’
It seems that Lindsay’s presence is appreciated. Workers have commented that she brings ‘a sense of spirit to the place’. Others thank her for her support. Some want to talk or ask about the Christian faith. Some don’t.
‘If people want to discuss faith, I’ll talk it through with them, but it’s not my agenda to make Christians,’ says Lindsay. ‘First and foremost, a chaplain is there to support people – of all faiths and none – and not to convert them. My role isn’t about hassling people, but being available.’
Whether staff share Lindsay’s faith or not, most of them are comfortable with who she is and what she stands for. At Christmas 2011, she led a carol service for 30 front-of-house staff in the theatre bar. Lindsay describes it as ‘one of the loveliest services I’ve ever done’.
Working at the Apollo means that Lindsay has come across one or two famous faces. But she doesn’t get star-struck. She insists on treating everybody the same.
‘People are people, whoever they are,’ she says. ‘And famous people have problems and anxieties, like anyone else. What is most important is being able to relate to them.’
Lindsay hopes that theatre chaplaincy will grow. She estimates that there are 25 chaplains at work in London theatres and others spread across the UK and Ireland. But at one time, every theatre had a chaplain.
‘The Actors’ Church Union – as it was then – was set up in the late 1800s,’ she explains. ‘In those days, the Church saw the theatre as a place of ill-repute. On top of that, touring companies used Sundays as their travel days, which meant that no one could get to church.
‘But then a young curate heard about a touring performer who was in dire straits, and when someone suggested that she went to see the local priest, she replied: “I can’t. I’m not in his parish.”
‘The curate realised that a whole section of society was
A chaplain is there to support people of all faiths and none
The Apollo Theatre, where church minister Lindsay (left) is a chaplain
The War Cry 27 July 20136
IT appears to be only a matter of time before Iran has a nuclear weapon. Last month, The Economist quoted British and American intelligence sources as saying that Iran was ‘about a year away from having enough fissile material to make a bomb’. It concluded that ‘nothing is likely to stop Iran getting the bomb if and when it decides it wants one’.
In its latest yearbook, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) highlights that ‘in 2012 the nuclear programme of Iran remained at the centre of international concerns about the spread of nuclear weapons. Little progress was made towards resolving the long-running controversy over the scope and nature of the programme.’
Last week, Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told CBS that Iran was getting ‘closer and closer to the bomb’. He also warned that his country would not wait ‘until it’s too late’ to respond.
In Westminster, meanwhile, a Lib Dem report setting out options for Britain replacing its Trident missile system and reducing its round-the-clock nuclear fleet triggered a political row.
According to Sipri, last year the eight nuclear countries had a combined arsenal of some 17,000 warheads. Of those eight countries, Sipri describes only five – signatories to the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty – as ‘legally recognised nuclear weapon states’. The other three are India, Pakistan and Israel.
India and Pakistan, says Sipri, are increasing the size and sophistication of their nuclear arsenals. Israel neither confirms nor denies nuclear capability.
The world already lives with nuclear proliferation. That does not mean that more is better. But the ‘legal’ nations – Britain, Russia, the USA, France and China – hold no moral right to blow the world to bits.
If regimes cannot live without the need for nuclear weapons – as tragic as that is – then the world must find a way of living with them.
It is better to press a point than to press the button.
Nuclear options
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PEOPLE following The Salvation Army’s New Testament Bible Challenge
are reading the whole New Testament, five chapters a week, over the course of a year. For each day’s reading plan and discussion notes visit salvationarmy.org.uk/biblechallenge
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Priest provides trafficking shelter in MexicoDiscs spin to bowl Dickie over
A ROMAN Catholic priest and human rights campaigner who helps trafficked individuals in Mexico is the subject of Heart and Soul: Through the Valley of Death on the BBC World Service today (Saturday 27 July 8.30 pm).
In a country where the trade in human beings is worth an estimated £20 billion, Padre Alejandro Solalinde runs a shelter that provides Central American migrants with humanitarian aid and education. He has a 24-hour guard, as he lives under constant threat of being killed by trafficking gangs.
The priest tells presenter Will Grant that he sees trafficked people not as goods but as children of God. The programme also relays stories of torture, rape and violence from victims of trafficking.
TO coincide with the Ashes, former cricket umpire Dickie Bird features on Radio 4 Extra’s Desert Island Discs Revisited tomorrow (Sunday 28 July 10 am).
Dickie tells presenter Sue Lawley about his churchgoing childhood in Barnsley and his career.
BEAR GRYLLS is to present an episode of BBC One’s Songs of Praise next month. The adventurer will celebrate the first anni-versary of the creation of the 870-mile Wales Coast Path and be joined by musical guests, including cellist Julian Lloyd Webber.
‘Faith is about finding life and joy and peace – and where better to expe-rience those simple things than with the music and stunning scenery of the coastline of Wales?’ Bear says.
IN response to a question about the return of favourite TV programmes, BBC head of comedy commissioning Shane Allen wrote in Radio Times: ‘A new series of Rev is being written as we speak, and filmed in the first part of next year. The cast love the project so much they’ve made time to do it.’
THE Right Rev Lorna Hood is the faith guest on Radio 2’s Good
Morning Sunday tomorrow (28 July 7 am). Ms Hood is the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
Two hundred and sixty-eight for Three
Writers are revisiting ‘Rev’
RADIO 3’s Choral Evensong comes live from Gloucester Cathedral next Wednesday (31 July 3.30 pm). The service marks the 268th meeting of singers from Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester Cathedrals for the Three Choirs Festival.
Bear on musical path
Dickie Bird
727 July 2013 The War CryLifestyle
No need to splash the cashHOLIDAYS can be expensive, but when accommodation rentals company Owners Direct asked customers for money-saving advice, they came up with these tips:
Plan any car parking, car hire, flights, ferry transfers and accommodation well in advance.
Take a prepaid card with you. It will enable you to plan your budget and will keep your personal details safe.
Buy toiletries and sun lotions before you go on holiday abroad, as they are double the price in most EU countries.
Rather than buying expensive guidebooks, use websites for information, visit tourist offices and tap into the local knowledge of holiday home owners or residents.
Use buses or trains rather than taxis to get around.
Check your mobile phone tariff and roaming charges so you aren’t faced with a massive bill after returning home.
Book flights when they are at their cheapest, even if you don’t yet have accommodation.
Angela Southall, marketing manager of Owners Direct, adds: ‘To make your budget stretch further, don’t travel in school holidays unless you have to and always look out for last-minute deals. Try going away in groups so that you can split bills.’
The sun has got his hat on!
THE Met Office has issued some tips for staying safe in the sun, compiled by Nivea Sun and Cancer Research UK.
Wear clothing that protects your skinWhen the sun is strong, it’s important to wear suitable clothing. A wide-brimmed hat and long-sleeved top or maxi dress will keep you covered up.
Protect your childrenYoung skin is particularly delicate and easily burnt. Make sure your children are wearing T-shirts and wide-brimmed hats and cover any exposed areas with sunscreen.
It’s also a good idea to encourage them to alternate their time in the sun with breaks in the shade, a game indoors or a cool drink. If you’re using a buggy, attaching a parasol is a useful way of keeping your smaller children cool and protected from the sun.
Bring a bottleCancer Research UK recommends using at least a factor-15 sunscreen with a high star rating to protect your skin, whether you’re in the UK or abroad. Keep a handy-sized bottle of sunscreen with you at all times. Make sure you apply it regularly and use a generous amount.
Spend time in the shadeIf your shadow is shorter than you are, then the sun is strong. In the UK summer, this is most likely to be between 11 am and 3 pm. Ensure you spend time in the shade by eating your lunch inside or visiting an indoor museum or gallery to cool off.
Stay protected during the heatwave
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Bible scholar RICHARD BURRIDGE tells Philip Halcrow how the Gospels offer four different perspectives on one man
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ANYONE who steps into a cathedral or church – to pray,
learn about history or admire architecture – may be able to spot them: an eagle hovering next to a man writing a scroll, as well as similar images of an ox, a winged lion and a man with wings.
The figures appear in stone above the door of Rochester Cathedral and in a stained-glass window at Dundee Cathedral. They can be seen on glass processional doors in St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne. And they are also in the windows of the chapel at King’s College London. Down the corridor from the chapel, the Dean and Professor of Biblical Interpretation, the Rev Richard Burridge, meets me to talk about his recently reissued book that looks at the meaning behind the eagle, the ox, the lion and the man.
In Four Gospels, One Jesus? Richard shows how, in church tradition, the figures have represented the four writers of the Gospels – the Evangelists – and aims to help readers understand their four differing accounts of Jesus.
‘In writing the book, I was trying to find some way of helping people get a clear idea of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John’s portraits of Jesus,’ he says.
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John with their symbols in Joseph Nuttgens’s windows in the chapel at King’s College London
‘The problem for many people is that they have a scrambled version of Jesus in their head. If you ask them to tell you the Christmas story, they will mix Luke’s shepherds with Matthew’s wise men and with the ox and the ass from tradition. If you ask them to talk about Good Friday, they will mix the sayings of Jesus from the cross found in the different Gospels.’
To tackle the subject, Richard turned to the four symbols that had become linked with the Gospels.
‘The four images first appear in a vision of God in the Book of Ezekiel,’ he says, ‘where the prophet describes each
of the cherubim as having four faces – that of a human, a lion, an ox and an eagle. Later, in the Book of Revelation, the human, the lion, the ox and the eagle are no longer just four faces of cherubim but four living creatures around the throne of God.
‘In the Early Church, there was speculation about who these four creatures were. Quickly, by the middle of the 2nd century, they were associated with the four Evangelists and the four Gospels.
‘The classic example of the tradition is in the Celtic art of the 5th to the 8th centuries. The images appear in beautifully illuminated books, such as the Lindisfarne Gospels.
‘When I looked at the Celtic art, I saw how the symbol of each Evangelist hovers above him. So, the symbol is not the
If you ask people to tell you the Christmas story, they will mix Luke’s shepherds with Matthew’s wise men
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Evangelist; the symbol is inspiring the Evangelist. And when, in about AD170, Irenaeus, the Bishop of Lyons, wrote about why there are four Gospels, he said that the symbols were images of the disposition of the Son of God. So, for instance, the lion shows Jesus’ kingly nature and the ox highlights his humility.’
In the 2nd century, Irenaeus decided he needed to explain why there were four recognised accounts of Jesus – the four Gospels that entered the ‘canon’, the accepted books of the New Testament. Today, says Richard, some people are confused about why there is not one authorised biography.
‘Why do we need four Gospels? It was a question for the Early Church, and today, for instance, Muslims often say that having four accounts means that they can’t all be true.’
Irenaeus’s poetic explanation of the fab four was that just as there were four corners of the earth, four
winds, four cherubim and four covenants made between God and humankind, so there had to be four Gospels.
Richard approaches the subject from another angle.‘With the Gospels, we have four witnesses to one
event, but if you were to spend any time at a court case, you’d realise that everybody views things from a different angle. If four witnesses came in and all said the same thing in a flat, leaden voice, you’d think there was something fishy going on. Difference is a mark of authenticity.
‘We have four portraits of Jesus, not just one. The Early Church could have gone with other options. It could have opted for a single, so-called harmony of the Gospels. A guy called Tatian wrote a book called the Diatessaron, in which he mashed all the Gospels together. It really didn’t work and the Church decided not to go that way.
‘Some people wanted to accept only one of the Gospels. But the Church insisted that it wanted four within the Bible.
‘We don’t have a one-size-fits-all Jesus. Jesus is interpreted and reinterpreted by the Evangelists for different churches. And actually, I wouldn’t want a monochrome version of Jesus.
‘At the same time, there are four portraits of Jesus, not forty-four. There is diversity but there are limits. Some images of Jesus are not acceptable. For instance, the Nazi blond, blue-eyed Aryan Jesus is outside the limits.’
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Richard emphasises that the Gospels have to be read correctly. They belong to the genre of ancient biographies, which have different concerns and interests from modern biographies. For instance, they show little interest in Jesus’ psychological development or anything other than his public ministry.
‘The Gospels are not an historical transcript, as if someone put a tape recorder under Jesus’ nose. As all good preachers do, he told his stories time after time in lots of different ways.
‘Some people needlessly get anxious about whether there were two blind men or one blind man that Jesus healed. But the Gospels are not video diaries.
‘The Gospels have to be judged by the criteria of the 1st century and I think they are pretty reliable documents. They share essentially the same story of Jesus’ public ministry, his teaching, his preaching, his activity, his healing and the events of the week leading to his death – and the fact that something very odd happened afterwards.’
Instead of being exhaustive accounts like Hansard transcripts of proceedings in Parliament, the Gospels, says Richard, are ‘very short books of 10,000 to 20,000 words, designed to fit on a single scroll. They are portraits, and we understand them a lot better by knowing who they were written for and in what context.’
He gives an example: ‘Matthew and Luke draw on very similar sources, but it is obvious that Matthew is assuming a Jewish audience familiar with the Hebrew Scriptures and the synagogue. On the other hand, Luke is writing for a much wider Gentile, Greek-Roman audience for which all that stuff doesn’t matter so much.’
When a reader understands the context, they can perhaps see why, for instance, Matthew’s Gospel is ‘at once the most Jewish of the Gospels and yet the most anti-Jewish’.
Richard explains: ‘Matthew’s Gospel is written for Jewish Christians who are arguing with their brother
and sister Jews who do not believe that Jesus was the Messiah. Internal family arguments are always bitter. If you read the Dead Sea Scrolls and see what one Jewish group said about the religious authorities in Jerusalem, it makes Matthew look tame.
‘In Matthew’s Gospel, the Pharisees are the bad guys, whereas in Luke they are shown in a much gentler light.’
Each Gospel writer also shows Jesus in a particular light – and Richard characterises their portrayals with the symbols associated with them.
‘Mark’s Jesus is like a lion who rushes around and roars,’ says Richard, who points out that Mark uses words such as ‘immediately’ to build up a sense of
urgency in Jesus’ mission.‘Matthew takes Mark’s picture and clarifies it and humanises
it – he shows Jesus’ human face as the teacher of Israel.‘Luke’s picture of Jesus is much more universal. Jesus is
humble and carries the burden of others like the ox – even though he is eventually a beast of sacrifice in the Temple.’
In Luke, Jesus is a friend of people marginalised by society; in John, his cosmic significance and his divinity are emphasised.
‘John’s Jesus is like the high-flying, all-seeing, all-knowing eagle. He descends to us and then returns to the heights.’
But Richard believes that the four portraits all shed light on one person.
‘I find the four Gospels to be talking about the same figure. They illuminate him from four angles.
‘In their own ways, they tell the story of God coming among us as a human being in the person of Jesus of Nazareth and teaching, healing and liberating us. He tries to tell us that it would be a good idea if we were a bit kinder to each other – but look what we did to him. Human beings just can’t handle that kind of naked love. We rejected it, and we go on rejecting it.
‘But the extraordinary story is that God still loves us. The Resurrection is all about the fact that love is stronger than hate, life is stronger than death, truth is stronger than falsehood and the goodness of God is stronger than evil.’
In Matthew, the Pharisees are the bad guys. In Luke, they are shown in a much gentler light
Four Gospels, One Jesus? is published by SPCK
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5. The clavicle is the medical term for what part of the body?
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In this series, HOWARD WEBBER uncovers gems in the early chapters of Genesis
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IN his play Lady Windermere’s Fan Oscar Wilde has Lord Darlington boldly assert: ‘I can resist anything except temptation.’ While that may raise the odd smile, real-life temptation is no laughing matter.
In his conversation with Eve, Satan distorts what God had said about not eating the forbidden fruit. He argues that, by commanding Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, God is withholding benefits that would otherwise be theirs and stopping them from becoming more like God himself. In effect, Satan is calling God a liar. Contradicting what Eve has been told, he tells her: ‘You will not certainly die’ (Genesis 3:4 New International Version).
The story goes on to say that when Eve ‘saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it’ (3:6).
The sad thing about Eve is that instead of taking herself away from what is tempting her, she hovers around it. We tend to do the same. Instead of turning our minds to other things, we continue to mull over the possibilities and remain enticed by forbidden fruit.
When we want to do something that
we should not, we often look for ways in which to justify ourselves and make wrong seem acceptable.
Little wonder Satan is depicted as a snake, for we know how, in our minds, he can slither around any obstacle to get us to do what he wants.
Wrong things are not necessarily always bad things. That fruit wasn’t poisonous. It ‘was pleasing to the eye’. What temptation isn’t attractive? It always offers pleasure of some sort. It is always desirable in some way.
But, as Eve discovered, the pleasure or promised benefit of giving in to temptation is short-lived. It leaves us with a bitter taste in our mouths.
Giving in leaves us with a bitter taste
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Food for thought
A few choice words
by HELEN BRETT
I MAY not have the expertise of Bill Oddie, but after watching the birds on my lawn, I have come to the uninformed conclusion that they have taste buds.
My husband threw out some soaked stale bread for the birds, mixed in with some bits of hard cheese. As I watched, a blackbird abandoned the bread and made for the cheese instead. He must have passed the news to his chums, because not long afterwards a number of blackbirds were indulging in – and quarrelling over – the remnants.
Being a pushover when it comes to birds, I often have grated cheese on my shopping list now. I’ve watched the creatures make their choice between bread and cheese many a time and know which one they’ll pick.
Some choices – bread or cheese – are easy. Others are not. Where should we live? What job should we do? What should we say or do when faced with a difficult situation?
Sometimes, we can make choices quite easily on our own. At other times, it is a good idea to be like the birds and look at others to see what they are doing. Can the actions of other people help us? Perhaps their choices – and the consequences – can guide our thinking.
But who do we turn to? There is always the possibility that people will let us down. That’s why it’s a good idea to turn to God for help. When we present him with our choices, he will point out the best one for us.
The Bible says: ‘Trust in the Lord with all your heart … in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight’ (Proverbs 3:5, 6 New International Version).
When we put our faith in God, he will help us to live in the best way. If we ask him, he will guide us in making decisions. And he promises to stay by our side as we follow them through.
What should we do when faced with a difficult situation?
Method:Preheat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas Mark 5.
Grease a baking tray.Mix together the flour, water and butter in a
bowl until they form a firm dough. Roll out the dough into a square, making sure each side measures about 25cm. Cut the dough in half.
Place the sausage meat, onion, paprika, garlic, tomato purée, tomato and stewed apple in a bowl and mix well. Spoon the mixture down the centre of one of the pastry halves, leaving a 2cm clear edge all the way round. Place it on the baking tray, then brush the sides with the milk.
Take the second pastry half and cut it diagonally into strips approximately 2cm wide. Position the strips on top of
the filling in a lattice pattern, pressing them down firmly at the edges. Bake for 35–40 minutes, then serve.
Serves 4
I’M Michael Darracott. I have been an executive chef in several large establishments in charge of cooking for 200-plus people. I have also written a number of books. It gives me great pleasure to offer my recipes in The War Cry.
I invite readers to send in recipe ideas, to be considered for publication here. I would also like to offer help with any cooking-related problems you have. So send in your question and, if it is selected, an answer will be published on this page.
Email your recipes and questions to [email protected]
Ingredients:
For the pastry
100g plain flour
2tbsp water
140g butter, melted
For the filling
345g pork sausage meat
1 onion, sliced finely
¼ tsp paprika powder
1 clove of garlic, crushed
2tbsp tomato purée
1 large tomato, peeled and diced
1 cooking apple, peeled, sliced and stewed until soft
2tsp milk, for brushing
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Sausage and apple lattice pie
Ingredients:For the base90g butter, melted200g digestive biscuits, crushed 3 drops of vanilla essenceFor the toppingZest and juice of 3 lemons1 tbsp cornflour70g caster sugar600g ricotta cheese500g cream cheese250g lemon curd
No-bake lemon cheesecake
Method:Mix the butter with the biscuit crumbs and
vanilla essence, then press into a 20cm round deep cake tin. Chill the tin in the fridge for about 20 minutes.
Place the lemon juice, lemon zest and cornflour in a saucepan over a medium heat and mix well. Add the caster sugar, then mix in the ricotta and cream cheese.
Remove the pan from the heat and allow to cool. Spoon the mixture on top of the chilled base.
Top the cheesecake with the lemon curd, then chill for at least two hours before serving.
Serves 4
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your head high, Elizabeth. God’s chosen you in this.’ For Elizabeth, divine rule may or may not have been the case. But
when it comes to a relationship with God, do we have a choice?The Bible tells us that God purposely chose to save the world from
its broken and sinful state: ‘God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life’ (John 3:16 New International Version).
Although God’s offer of eternal life – living in his Kingdom – is universal, it is not something we automatically inherit.
Jesus invites us to follow him. The choice, though, is ours.If we put our faith in Jesus, ask his forgiveness for our wrongdoing
and follow his teaching, our destiny can be changed. We will be a part of his royal family and have a share in his Kingdom.
The fight is on for the throne
THE claws are out and the fight is on for the throne. BBC One’s drama series The White Queen tells the story of the War of the Roses, between the royal houses of York and Lancaster.
Elizabeth Woodville (Rebecca Ferguson) of the House of Lancaster is in trouble. Her husband was killed in battle. Desperate for her sons to receive their father’s inheritance, she approached the new King Edward of York (Max Irons) for justice.
After a few meetings, Elizabeth and Edward fell in love and mar-ried in secret. The union between the King and the commoner from two different houses outraged Edward’s cousin Lord Warwick (James Frain), who was planning to take control of the throne.
Warwick turned against King Edward and recruited other fam-ily members to do the same, including King Edward’s own brother
George (David Oakes). He also targeted the new Queen, Elizabeth, by killing her father and brother.
Warwick’s death did not end Elizabeth’s troubles. Her mother and newborn baby died. And Edward’s brother George is now out for as much power as he can get, even at the expense of Elizabeth.
It’s difficult for her. If she could remember them, maybe she would be reassured by some words of her father. Before her coronation, he told her: ‘Hold
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