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The Bible and the Budget

We seem to be waking up in the morning recently to news about inflation, exchange rates, falling taxes and rising prices. Perhaps most of us are better at seeing the big picture here than the fine details – especially when...

Garden ‘brings psalm to life’ at Winchester Hospice

It’s a year since the Psalm 23 Garden scooped awards at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. But it lives on and is bringing its own sense of calm and restoration to a very special place: Winchester Hospice.

Ukrainian family given Bibles as welcome to UK church

A family who fled Kharkiv in Ukraine, have been welcomed into a local church in Burnley, where they were recently given Bibles during a special service.

Tears as people in Russian-occupied Ukraine receive Bibles

A team from the Ukrainian Bible Society travelled to the embattled region carrying aid and Bibles. Anatoliy Rachynets, deputy general secretary, said, ‘I saw many tears and many thankful faces. People said that the Bible...

Queen Elizabeth II: The Bible in the Funeral

The funeral yesterday of Queen Elizabeth II was both dignified and deeply moving. It was a great state occasion, marked by all the pomp and circumstance due to a great queen, but it was also thoroughly Christian and soaked...

The Queen and the Bible

Queen Elizabeth had a deep knowledge of the Bible from reading it regularly and hearing countless sermons based on it. For her, as for all Christians, the Bible is a key source not only of doctrine but of comfort, hope and...

The Queen and Jesus

The public life of the Royal Family is very much bound up with the established Church. The monarch bears the title 'Defender of the Faith', inherited from Henry VIII, and the Church of England is part of the royal landscape...

The Queen and reconciliation

The history of the island of Ireland and mainland Britain makes very painful reading, of which the Troubles of the 1960s to the 1990s were the latest instalment. More than 3,500 people died, approximately 60 per cent of whom...

The Queen and the Good Samaritan

At Christmas 2020 Queen Elizabeth's address to the nation was delivered in the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic. She praised those in the front line of the response to it, saying: 'We continue to be inspired by the kindness...

The Queen: Serving as Jesus served

In 1947, as Princess Elizabeth, Her Majesty toured South Africa with her parents and sister Margaret Rose. In a speech broadcast from Cape Town on her 21st birthday, she referred to her ancestors' motto, ‘I serve’, saying...

Nation mourns monarch whose life was rooted in the Bible

The nation and Commonwealth mourns a monarch who was ‘a remarkable public servant’, and whose life was rooted in the Bible, said the Chief Executive Officer of Bible Society today.

Call to prayer

In the light of news released by Buckingham Palace regarding the health of Her Majesty the Queen, we're calling on our supporters to pray for her and for the Royal Family at this difficult time.
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