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CAN you imagine a greater song of hope for a better world? Today (Saturday 8 October) is the 40th anniversary of the release of John Lennon’s album Imagine, which begins with the classic track of the same name.

The song ‘Imagine’ reached the UK Top Ten for the first time in 1975.

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CAMBRIDGE CONFERENCE CONSIDERS SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

Faith focuses on planet care

which everyone relies.

‘The price of carbon – as well as regulation in the financial sector – needs to be regulated if sustainability is to be achieved.’

Addressing the morality of consumerism, he said: ‘A consumer society professes to make each of us the centre of the world – we want, we get.

This being elevated to deity is ethically and spiritually problematic, and people of faith want to challenge it.’

Public willingness to change is key to the acceptance of renewable energy, according to Juliet Davenport, founder of Good Energy.

‘The UK already has the natural wind, wave, tidal, solar and geothermal resources that would enable all our energy to come from renewable

sources by 2050,’ she said.

‘Christians – perhaps the ‘Scepticism is holding us biggest special-interest back. Until the public tell group in the UK – have the politicians this is what enormous political clout, if they want, there will be no we chose to use it. If enough change and the UK will Christians said that Britain continue to have no control has to take action in over the price and supply of response to climate change, energy.’ then politicians would have Organiser Professor Bob to take notice if they wanted White spoke to The War Cry to get elected.’ about his hopes for the The conference was conference. organised by the Faraday ‘For Christians, Jesus’ Institute for Science and injunction to love your Religion and the Kirby neighbour includes people Laing Institute for Christian on the other side of the Ethics. world whose homes will be G For more information visit destroyed when sea levels faraday-institute.org.uk rise as a result of fossil fuel burning. People of faith have more YOUR prayers are requested reason to do for John and Cath, having to something about adapt to a difficult separation climate change than because of care needs. others. We are connected right The War Cry invites readers across the world.

The Church went to send in requests for prayer, global long before including the names of individuals and McDonald’s.

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HOW faith communities can influence attitudes and provoke action towards sustainability to tackle climate change was the subject of a conference in Cambridge last week. Speakers at the Sustainability in Crisis conference considered sustainable growth, consumption and production.

In his speech, Paul Ekins, Professor of Energy and Environmental Policy at University College London, outlined the economic considerations of sustainability.

‘The key question is whether economic growth can continue without having an impact on the environment.

Theoretically, it is possible through decoupling, whereby as an economy grows, so the environmental impact and resource use in that economy decline.’

The resistance comes, the professor acknowledged, when trying to put necessary lifestyle changes into practice.

‘To attain a reasonably low-carbon economy we Debt campaigner will need to invest Ann Pettifor £200 billion between now and 2020. There is no credit is not enough. It must evidence to suggest that be underpinned by moral strong action to mitigate values. This is where the climate change will cost Church can help.’ more than 2 per cent of American GDP. At present, Britain is a environmentalist Bill consumer economy. We McKibben argued for a shift need to be an investor in consumption patterns. economy.’

‘Consumption in the Ann Pettifor, who was West has become cofounder of the Third counterproductive, doing us World debt cancellation more harm than good,’ he campaign Jubilee 2000, said. ‘Institutions – banks, questioned the morality of food production and energy usury. provision – have become ‘The whole credit system too big to succeed. The one is out of control,’ she said. thing driving economic ‘Necessary regulation of problems is the global trading of the limited pool of fossil fuel energy, on

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John Lennon speaks at a peace rally in 1972, the year after the release of ‘Imagine’

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‘Imagine’ expressed hope for everyone longing for peace

charts and went to No 1. Since then it has topped BBC and Virgin Radio polls to find the nation’s favourite pop song.

Its appeal is not confined to the land of Lennon’s birth. Former US President Jimmy Carter has remarked that in many countries ‘Imagine’ is used almost equally with national anthems.

Before Lennon came to record the album in 1971, he had been hurt and desolate. The Beatles had recently broken up. A song written shortly afterwards, titled ‘God’, listed everyone he did not believe in, including the Beatles, Elvis, Buddha … and Jesus.

Then came ‘Imagine’, expressing new hope, not merely for Lennon, but But when the teaching of Jesus is for everyone longing for peace in a vio- followed and not abused, people act lent world. like him – with love, selflessness and Many bought his sales pitch for courage. peace, which included: ‘No religion.’

It’s possible to see ‘Imagine’ as a Who can blame them? Lennon knew secular sermon in song, in which case that, for years, people have blamed we may wonder if Lennon practised religion for causing war and motivating what he preached. The singer Elvis persecution and oppression – that reli- Costello asked in one of his songs: ‘Was gious people have carried out horrific it a millionaire who said “Imagine no acts on earth in the hope of gaining possessions”?’ heavenly rewards. No wonder Lennon’s One of the people that Lennon rejectopening line, ‘Imagine there’s no ed in his song ‘God’ not only practised Heaven’, still appeals. what he preached, but also practised the Warped and twisted beliefs in heavenly best of what Lennon preached. rewards may lead to appalling crimes.

Jesus, homeless and poor himself,

urged his listeners to depend on God instead of wealth. And he crossed racial and cultural divides so that the world could be as one. A soldier from the brutal Roman Empire, a foreign woman several times divorced, financial cheats and prostitutes were among the loathed people he loved.

It’s hard to imagine a greater book of hope for a better world than the Bible. It tells of a life that embodied all that is beautiful in ‘Imagine’.

When a person puts their trust in Jesus and lives as he lived, Lennon’s dream of a peaceful, united world gets a little closer to becoming reality.

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HY are we here?

Who am I? Is the Universe meaningless? To these can be added another big question: Why is the writer and thinker Albert Camus reading a copy of En Avant! – the French version of The War Cry?

In repackaging Camus’s classic works, publishers Penguin have attached the photo to The Essential Albert Camus boxed set and to a Mini Modern Classic edition of The Adulterous Woman. They have also blown it up into a promotional poster.

As well as ‘Why is Camus reading En Avant!?’, we may ask where, when and how he came to read it.

Major Emmanuel Westphal, a French Salvation Army officer, offers some information: ‘This photo of Albert Camus reading En Avant! was taken at the famous café called Les Deux Magots on the Boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris in 1945. Les Deux Magots was where many Parisian intellectuals gathered after the war.’

Les Deux Magots and other cafés in the area may have been a place for intellectuals such as Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir but, says Simon Lea, president of the Albert Camus Society UK, the nights spent there were not necessarily always high-

PHILIP HALCROW

Albert Camus and the Salvation Army newspaper What’s the story behind the picture? wonders PHILIP HALCROW

brow. ‘Most of the time they were drinking. De Beauvoir complained that when the topics of discussion turned more serious, Camus would clam up.

‘I get the idea that Camus avoided philosophical or theological talk while frequenting the cafés and bars. He was there to have a good time and to be seen having a good time.’

Major Westphal suggests: ‘It’s likely that the paper was sold to Camus by a Salvationist doing the rounds.

‘His curious and critical look is evident. He was a journalist himself and served as the Editor-inChief of the paper Combat during that same era.’

Camus had helped to start Combat as a Resistance news-sheet during the Nazi occupation of France during the Second World War. Rene Saint Paul, who took the picture, was a Combat photographer.

What would Camus have thought of this other paper?

Or of The Salvation Army?

‘It is impossible to speculate on any further contact Camus had with The Salvation Army,’ says Major Westphal.

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CAFÉ CULTURE: Camus reads ‘En Avant!’ in Les Deux Magots

There may be little known about Camus’s encounter with The Salvation Army, but his writings and spoken words reveal more about what he thought of Christianity.

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amus had a fairly good knowledge about Christianity,’ says Simon Lea. ‘He frequently used Christian imagery. In titles such as The First Man, The Fall and The Rebel he is deliberately mirroring the Genesis story of the first man, rebellion and the Fall.

‘A careful reading of Camus will reveal that he doesn’t require or demand an absence of God, though at times he assumes one as part of his method.’

Major Westphal argues: ‘Camus believed that Christianity drives man to accept evil and resign himself to injus-

tice: hope in eternal life could make a believer rely passively on God to carry out justice. Christ’s example, given through suffering, would drive man to resign himself to the evil of existence.

To choose eternal life would be resigning oneself to evil.’

In The Rebel, which Camus described as ‘an attempt to understand the time I live in’, written after the horrors of the war, he considered ideas about God through the centuries.

But he was concerned not only with questions of how faith related to history.

Major Westphal says: ‘Camus was scandalised by God’s silence. In 1932, while he was in Algeria, he witnessed an accident in which an Arab child was hit by a bus and stayed in a coma. Lifting his finger towards

Camus’s curious look is evident.

He was a journalist himself

Heaven, Camus said to his friend, Max-Pol Fouchet: “You see, he is silent.” We find an echo of this event in the story of the death of a child in his novel The Plague.

‘Like many others before him, Camus came up against what he called in The Rebel “the paradox of a God who is omnipotent and evil or benevolent and sterile”.’

But, insists Major Westphal, ‘it would be a serious misunderstanding of Camus’s thought to see him as an atheist opposed to Christianity. In an interview in Stockholm, when he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in December 1957, he declared: “I have nothing but respect and reverence in front of the person of Christ.”’

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ne of the other thinkers that Camus mentioned in The Rebel was Simone Weil, the French Christian mystic, who died in 1943. Major Westphal thinks it is significant that Camus, as director of the Espoir chez Gallimard Collection, published the bulk of her writings and held her ‘in the highest regard’.

Camus was killed in a car accident in 1960. Like Combat – the paper he founded – En Avant! has since ceased publication, though The Salvation Army is still spreading the gospel and is celebrating its 130th anniversary in France.

And Camus’s works are still provoking questions.

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REMEMBER Swampy? In the 1990s Swampy (otherwise known as Daniel Hooper) found fame as an eco-warrior protesting at roadbuilding sites. Today, the climate has changed.

SCOTTISH international rugby player Euan Murray (pictured) questioned the need for World Cup matches to be played on Sundays, reported the BBC. According to BBC Online, Murray chose to put his Christian faith before his sport, resulting in his missing Scotland’s clash with Argentina last week.

‘I don’t see why there have to be games on Sundays,’ said Murray. ‘I hope things will change in future.’

In a previous interview, Murray explained why his faith prevents him from working on Sundays: ‘It’s basically all or nothing, following Jesus.

I don’t believe in pick’n’mix Christianity.

I believe the Bible is the word of God, so who am I to ignore something from it?’

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Melting polar ice-caps and alpine glaciers, greenhouse gases, recycling and renewables, carbon credits and footprints are no longer the concern only of ‘tree-hugging’ environmental activists.

Society is involved.

Scientists generally agree that climate change is a reality and that its rate of acceleration is caused, at least in part, by the use of fossil fuels. The scientific search for practical, affordable, alternative energy sources is on.

Politicians generally agree with the scientific analysis. By last month, 191 nations had signed and ratified the Kyoto Protocol, undertaking to reduce greenhouse gases. In the UK, local councils have targets to reduce landfill.

Householders fill recycling bins, deposit their cast-offs at clothes banks, shop at farmers’ markets, buy Fairtrade products and read newsprint sourced from sustainable forests.

Planet Earth is the responsibility of all its inhabitants. It is not a private hobby.

Sustainability is not an enthusiast’s hobby horse. Goodwill will achieve only so much. Humankind is naturally selfish.

There are two mechanisms that can deliver sustainability – political will and spiritual motivation.

Politicians and their voters have to care enough about the overuse of the world’s finite resources to introduce – to enshrine in law – radical lifestyle changes, such as dependence on renewable energy.

For many people, the motivation to live simply so people can simply live comes from their Christian faith. Christianity affirms God as Creator and humankind as stewards of God-given resources. Jesus’ injunction to ‘love your neighbour’ includes a cost to such caring.

The world has moved on since the days of Swampy. But unless consumers in the rich West are prepared to pay, then some of the world’s poorest, least carbonconsuming people will find rising sea levels swamping them.

Scottish forward stands out from the pack

Metal thieves hit the roofs ‘METAL plunderers, cashing in on the rising value of scrap lead and copper, have pushed many [churches] in the country to bankruptcy,’ reported the Daily Express.

The paper featured the story of All Saints Church in Hacheston, Suffolk, where thieves stole £20,000 worth of lead

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from the roof, leaving a hole. It was the second time the church has been targeted, and the congregation said it could not afford to replace the stolen metal.

‘This church represents almost 1,000 years of history and I don’t know what we are going to do,’ said Tony Dyer of All Saints.

‘We will turn to the village

for help … but families are struggling and many residents are elderly. I see a time when this church does not exist.’

The paper went on to say that 60 per cent of the stolen metal goes abroad to developing economies, including India and China.

To protect their buildings, churches are launching night-time patrols and installing alarm systems.

ANDREA BOCELLI told the Radio Times that his The Church of Christian faith is ‘something that comes from the grace of God’. When asked how God has helped him, the England believes that a tenor replied: ‘It wouldn’t be enough to have an third of its 16,000 entire day to answer that question. I’ve always churches in England looked for God, and God has always answered and Wales have been my prayers. I believe the obstacles God gives us targeted, many on to overcome are in proportion to the strengths more than five occaand abilities he gives us to overcome them.’ sions.

Reflections re-app-ear

Andrea Bocelli

BOOKS

Changing climate

IN THE PRESS

Comment

AN annual book of daily reflections is now available via an app. Church House Publishing says its app of Reflections for Daily Prayer is an alternative to the printed and ebook versions. An online video guide to using the app version has been posted on the website churchofengland.org

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ticket THE conditions and restrictions attached to train tickets are so unclear that few people know what they are buying, according to Which?

The consumer organisation says that there is a lack of clear information on ticket-selling websites, which most rail travellers use to buy their tickets.

More than half of the people surveyed

by Which? said that they understood the terms and conditions of their tickets when buying online. But when tested, only 1 per cent of train travellers correctly identified the various elements of all the main ticket types.

Rail watchdog Passenger Focus wants websites to explain clearly the difference between ticket types – for instance, to make it clear that off-peak tickets don’t tie people to a specific

There are many types of train fares on offer

train whereas advanced tickets do.

Passenger Focus would also like sites to make clear what a ‘flexible’ or ‘open’ ticket means, as such tickets can offer better value than the cheapest ticket because of their flexibility.

Which? says many people buy what they believe is the right ticket for their journey based on price and convenience, but few know about the conditions that accompany various tickets.

It asked members of its staff to go online and pick the cheapest tickets for three journeys. When off-peak was the cheapest option, none of the staff knew the conditions attached to it.

They were unaware that the ticket type offered travel on a range of trains each way, so if they missed a train, they could catch the next off-peak one.

The testers were also unaware that they could break their journey in any direction or return within a month and did not know that off-peak tickets could be used differently from advanced ones.

Describing a ticket as ‘offpeak’ implies that there is a

peak. In September last year Which? found a big difference in train companies’ peak times. Information that is provided on train websites is often very brief or accessible only by clicking another link or button.

Which? also says that all train-ticket selling websites in Britain display results in a timetable format that asks a user to specify a time of travel, even when the ticket isn’t time-specific. Such a way of presenting information might explain why people don’t understand all their options.

Train companies themselves do not levy debit or credit card fees. Buying tickets from train companies’ own websites will nearly always result in a better deal than using third-party sites. Thirdparty sites generally charge fees for the use of credit and debit cards, as well as booking and postage. They also do not offer the discounts offered on some train companies’ advance tickets.

Which? encourages people who do want to use a third-party site to opt for one that does not charge fees.

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has said that debit card charges should be included in the headline price of tickets, and a recent governmental review of Britain’s train system recommended that the complexity of the ticket system should be addressed.

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N the space of five years, the depths I sank to were incredible.

Now I think to myself: “How did that happen?” I sank to places that a Christian shouldn’t sink to.’

I was sinking into drink – but Jesus held on to me

Rob was born and raised in Stourbridge by his grandparents. He describes his childhood as being ‘reasonably happy’.

Rob did well at school and, when he left, he took an apprenticeship in engineering. He carried on in the profession for many years, but he didn’t expect to be made redundant. More than once.

‘In the 1960s, engineering looked as though it was going to be the way forward. But the recession of the Seventies messed it up. In 1971, I’d gone through a bad spell and had lost my job several times. I had a wife and child to look after,’ he explains.

But this bad patch was the start of something new for Rob. He got a job in a factory making tools.

‘I started on a Monday. Some of the guys in the tool room weren’t very friendly, but there was a Christian guy called Alan who was. I sat with him at breakfast time. He talked to me and told me how he’d come to faith. On the Wednesday I stood by my machine, took a tract that Alan had given me from my pocket, and prayed the prayer on the back,’ says Rob. ‘When I’d finished, I knew that something had happened in me. I tried to convince Alan I had become a Christian. At first he didn’t believe me.

‘Alan and I became great friends. He nurtured me in the faith. I had never met a bornagain Christian before I met him.

But I had reached a point where I needed to know God.’ When Rob went home and told his wife Maureen what happened she, like Alan, took a while to take it in.

‘She thought I’d gone round the bend,’ laughs Rob. ‘But she gave her life to the Lord on the Friday.’

Alan introduced Rob and Maureen to a

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Prodigal pastor ROB GILES speaks with Renée Davis about his new start in life

Pentecostal church in Brierley Hill.

They settled there for several years.

Each week, they took children from their neighbourhood to church. They started a Sunday school in their home, before relocating to a community centre because it was so popular. They ran the Sunday school for 18 years.

Rob had long felt that God was calling him to work for him. Towards the end of the war in the Balkans, he made several trips to Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia, taking aid to refugee camps.

‘One of the camps I visited was horrendous. The temperature was minus 20, and the kids were running around in shorts and T-shirts. Their lips were purple. It was heartbreaking,’ Rob recalls.

‘One of the guys at the camp had had a good job as a civil engineer. He had a Mercedes, and the Serbs blew up the car in front of him. They set fire to his house and threatened to rape his wife. Somehow the couple managed to escape with just the clothes on their backs, but he and his wife still made sure they were smartly dressed,’ Rob remembers.

‘He was walking around the camp crying. There was no consoling him.

His wife, though, kept her dignity. She had a few pieces of make-up in her handbag and did her hair lovely. You could see she wasn’t going to let it beat her. Things like that were very moving.’

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ob will never forget his time in Croatia. He saw how ‘ethnic cleansing’ affected the people of the country not only physically and materially, but also mentally.

While on a visit to a school, some of the images Rob saw were terrifying.

‘We walked along a corridor going to the headmaster’s office,’ he recalls. ‘There were pictures that kids had drawn on the walls. One child’s picture must have been something that they’d witnessed. It showed a tank driving down the street and the head of a human in the gutter with the body a few feet away. These were only eight-year-olds. I thought:

When I’d finished praying, I knew that something had happened to me

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From page 9 “Those scars are going to be with them for the rest of their lives.”’

Rob’s compassion for people did not end with his work with refugees. After his last mission trip, Rob was asked to stand in as temporary pastor at a church in Darlaston. It was something he enjoyed.

‘I would’ve liked to have carried on pastoring there, but the travelling would’ve been too much of a strain. I tried to get work elsewhere afterwards, but that opportunity didn’t come along.’

Events took a downward turn. Disappointment and worry took its toll. He took on a new job making parts for aircraft, under a very strict regime. The mental and emotional pressure of the job became too much for him to handle.

‘There were stringent checks on everything.

Whenever a plane went down, the gaffers would investigate who made the faulty part. If the internal inquiry found the person responsible, they could be sacked or prosecuted,’ explains Rob. ‘There was an inner voice telling me to walk away from the job, but of course I panicked and thought: “Well, what about the family?

Where are we going to get money from?”’

Rob’s mental state became unstable.

A mix of disappointment and pressure pushed him over the edge. He became bottle of wine and take them home.’ depressed. Rob turned to alcohol and Rob became aggressive at home. He pornography to mask his problems. became angry. He says he was often ‘The pornography was there in the ‘vile’ towards Maureen. factory. It was a relief from the pressure.

‘I displayed symptoms similar to My mind got locked into fantasies. I bipolar disorder, such as euphoria and started drinking heavily. One drink was deep depression. I was flying into fits of never enough. If I opened a bottle of rage. My mind was locked into the idea wine or whisky, I’d finish the whole that I was finished and washed up as a thing. I would go to the pub and have Christian. Nobody could talk to me,’ he some pints, then buy some cans and a says.

My mind got locked into fantasies.

I started drinking heavily ‘Some nights I would cry myself to sleep. I’d cry out to God to help me. But I was just sinking deeper into the mire of drink.’

Rob continued to attend church. He kept his inner turmoil secret from other members of the congregation. It was not until a particular Bible verse kept coming to Rob’s mind that he reached out for help.

‘It was some advice from the Letter of James: “Confess your faults one to another that you might be healed.” I was searching for ways to tell somebody. I met up with a friend of mine called Martyn. He listened to everything I had to say and then told me how to pray. He told me that when he prayed he’d sit quietly and focus on Jesus. After a while, he would start to see pictures and visions. Speaking with Martyn was therapy for me.

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ne night, I went to bed early and was feeling quite low. Yet at the same time I wanted to try praying the way Martin told me about. I was lying in bed, trying to focus my attention on Jesus. The next thing I knew he appeared at the foot of my bed.

‘I was scared witless. At that instant I knew I was an open book and he knew everything about me.

‘Jesus sat on the bed, leant over and embraced me. I began crying violently. I asked him: “Why are you doing this?”

He replied: “It’s grace, Rob, just grace.”

I could feel him holding me. I eventually fell asleep in his arms.’

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It was a new start. Rob had similar experiences in the morning or evening for three months. They helped him overcome his addictions and depression.

‘Jesus told me that whenever I woke up I should get out of the bed. I started to go downstairs. Then he would tell me what to do. He told me what to do in order to get control of my thinking. I needed to be still and let go of everything and release it to God,’ says Rob.

‘I

t took me 13 months to break away from the drink. But the thing that helped me change was positive thinking. Instead of berating myself for drinking, I put my trust in God and focused my mind on scriptural truths.’

Rob recalls the moment when he stopped drinking. For good.

‘I was at the pub and ogling the barmaid. I thought to myself: “I don’t want this.” So I drank up and left. As I walked through the door, I felt as though something inside me had broken. I knew I was free.’

Rob describes his road to recovery in greater detail in a book entitled, Out of Bondage – Jesus Set Me Free from Addiction.

‘Every day, I feel as though God is holding me. I am thankful for his grace in providing me with a way out of my mess. I couldn’t continue life without Jesus.’

G Out of Bondage is published

by Crossbridge

I put my trust in God and focused my mind on scriptural truths

PUZZLEBREAK

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Look up, down, forwards, backwards and diagonally on the grid to find these songs by John Lennon

Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9 Solution on page 15

WORDSEARCH

SUDOKU

by Chris Horne

ANSWERS

A O G N R T B E C G S H A M C E K E A B

S K E J I R N A N T S F I R L W N V T T

T H E O W I N O A T O N I A M B O O C Y

G L E H G E G N H E D P G D N E J G H O

E I O A S W D T C G P P T G O L S N I T

P E M A W B L A A L O M E P B P E I N B

M I I M Y I D M E I J T W L O O E T G Y

L Y D M E N E D C E H A P H D E U R T R

S R E V O S I R A W S A M X Y P P A H B

P L C L O N O L E P I Y V I T E I T E A

BEAUTIFUL BOY BORROWED TIME COLD TURKEY CRIPPLED INSIDE GIMME SOME TRUTH GIVE PEACE A CHANCE HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER) IMAGINE JEALOUS GUY

QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS 1. Across (7) 5. Squander (5) 7. Stansted, for example (7) 8. Contribution (5) 10. Countertenor (4) 11. Ancient North African city (8) 13. Exotic plant (6) 14. Hilaire, Frenchborn poet (6) 17. Opinionated (8) 19. ____ Karenina, Tolstoy novel (4) 21. Wear (5) 22. Oxfordshire town (7) 23. Savoury jelly (5) 24. Remains (7)

E E C E M I T D E W O R R O B M M R W M

T E O L S A O M P H L V V C O H N S W W

H T L I M U E P E O T R H R L T P E H O

A A D N S L P O V T B O S O D O N K E T

T E T G A R H E I E R O M H M T N I E O

V A U H A M S E G H E U G D E R V L L O

E Y R L E Y O B L U F I T U A E B T S T

A O K E A M P W I O R R B H I W O S V U

R C E E T E O U P D V E P T L O P U M A

E A Y R J Y U B Y R N E J I K P E J P O

(JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER LOVE MIND GAMES MOTHER NOBODY TOLD ME OH MY LOVE POWER TO THE PEOPLE STAND BY ME WATCHING THE WHEELS WOMAN

HONEYCOMB Each solution starts on the coloured cell and reads clockwise round the number 1. Crowd together 2. An official count of a population 3. Make smooth and shiny by rubbing DOWN 2. Infidel (7) 3. Confess (4) 4. 16th-century artist (6) 5. High-pitched sounds (8) 6. Cuttlefish ink (5) 7. Large snakes (9) 9. Religious government (9) 12. Prodigious (8) 15. Inert (7) 16. Wood (6) 18. Set (5) 20. Responsibility (4)

4. Primary colour 5. Small stone 6. Relating to the lower back

QUICK QUIZ 1. What is the capital city of Austria?

2. Which musical includes the song ‘Bless your Beautiful Hide’?

3. What name is given to the chief religious leader of a synagogue?

4. What unit is used for measuring the fineness of yarn?

5. Who wrote the book Dubliners?

6. Complete the saying: Feed a cold…?

QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Athwart. 5 Waste. 7 Airport. 8 Input.

10 Alto. 11 Carthage. 13 Orchid. 14 Belloc.

17 Dogmatic. 19 Anna. 21 Sport. 22 Banbury.

23 Aspic. 24 Residue.

DOWN: 2 Heretic. 3 Avow. 4 Titian. 5 Whistles.

6 Sepia. 7 Anacondas. 9 Theocracy. 12 Gigantic.

15 Languid. 16 Timber. 18 Group. 20 Onus.

QUICK QUIZ 1 Vienna. 2 Seven Brides for Seven Brothers.

3. Rabbi. 4 Denier. 5 James Joyce. 6 And starve a fever.

HONEYCOMB 1 Huddle. 2 Census. 3 Polish. 4 Yellow. 5 Pebble.

6 Lumbar.

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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

change its IN 1812, William Booth, the founder of The Salvation Army, gave an impassioned address to a packed congregation in London’s Albert Hall. According to some later accounts, what he said at that event consisted of fighting talk. He spoke about what he would fight for.

One of the things Booth said was: ‘While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I’ll fight.’

He was aware that there was a tendency for prisoners to reoffend once released and that they could soon find themselves behind bars again.

Things have not changed very much since Booth’s day. Today, newspapers report that some prisons have a reconviction rate of more than 60 per cent and others are higher than 70 per cent.

Why is that?

One mother, whose son had just received his third conviction, said: ‘You think they’re going to change. They promise they’re going to change. But in the end it just doesn’t happen. I suppose you just can’t get a leopard to change its spots.’

In other words, she was saying that if a person is bad, then you cannot expect

‘Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil’ (Jeremiah 13:23)

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them to change their behaviour any more habits of a lifetime. But God also promises to renew all those who put their lives into than you could expect a leopard to be able to exchange its spots for, say, stripes. his hands. He gives us the power to be The phrase about the leopard comes different. With his help, as Christians have from the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah. witnessed over the years, a leopard can Jeremiah had a message from God for the change its spots. people of Judah. It was not very comforting.

CAN WE HELP? Through Jeremiah, God said he was going to Just complete this coupon and send it to scatter the nation The War Cry, 101 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6BN because they had forgotten about him. He Please send me said: ‘Can an Ethiopian Basic reading about Christianity change his skin or a Information about The Salvation Army leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are Contact details of a Salvationist minister accustomed to doing evil’ Name (Jeremiah 13:23 New Address International Version).

Left to our own devices and resources, it is difficult to change bad

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I’ve been rooting around for my history LIKE many people I enjoy finding out about my family history. In recent years I’ve chatted – notebook in hand – to my elderly relatives, trying to put down on paper a past which could soon be lost for ever. We’ve looked at old photographs (often frustratingly unlabelled). I’ve been researching online as well.

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Often history tracers find that their family foundations are not rock solid

– are like the sensible builder with his solid foundation.

Relying on even the best of human support and family tradition is like building on sand. Jesus’ words alone – noted and acted upon – provide a secure base on which we can safely build our lives.

We can depend on him.

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built his on solid rock and it withstood the worst weather. The second man took the easy way out and used sand as the foundation for his house.

It didn’t stay upright for long.

Jesus said that those who listen to what he has to say – and put his teaching into practice

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My brother is delighted with my findings.

On our father’s side of the family, we come from Lincolnshire, the county my brother moved to 40 years ago. Unknowingly, he has spent his adult life a few miles from where our ancestors lived.

Many people like the security of knowing where they come from, of feeling that they have roots in the past. It is important to know that our temperaments and physical characteristics have been handed down to us through the generations.

But often familyhistory tracers find that their family foundations are not rock solid. The odd black sheep crops up. And certain family stories that were always believed to be true turn out to be not based on fact at all.

So, if the present doesn’t feel very secure and our past isn’t quite what we thought it was, what can we rely on?

Speaking of foundations, Jesus told a story about two men who each decided to build a house (see Matthew 7:24–27). The first man

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To mark the start of British Egg Week on Monday (10 October), two celebrity chefs share their favourite egg recipes

Eggs en cocotte

by Tom Kitchin

Ingredients 100g button mushrooms 100g smoked streaky bacon 100g broad beans 250g fresh spinach 2tsp olive oil Salt 4 large British Lion eggs

For the mornay sauce 60g butter 60g plain flour 1l milk 4 gratings of nutmeg Salt and pepper 100g Mull Cheddar, grated

Method: Make the mornay sauce by melting the butter in a medium saucepan, and add the flour.

Whisk the mixture over a low heat for 2–3 minutes until there are no lumps. Bring the milk to the boil with the grated nutmeg, and pour it over the butter mixture. Bring to the boil and cook for 10 minutes, stirring

gently. Season, and pour the sauce through a sieve and stir in the grated cheese.

To prepare the vegetables and bacon, wipe the mushrooms and cut them into quarters. Cut the bacon into 1cm batons and sauté together with the mushrooms for 3–4 minutes.

Pod the broad beans and blanch them for

Baked egg custard tart

by Marcus Wareing Ingredients: For the pastry 225g flour, plus extra for dusting Pinch of salt Zest of 1 lemon 150g butter 75g caster sugar 1 large British Lion egg yolk 1 large British Lion egg For the custard filling 9 large British Lion egg yolks 75g caster sugar 500ml whipping cream 2 nutmegs Method: Preheat the oven to 170C/325F/Gas Mark 3. To make the pastry, rub the flour, salt, lemon zest and butter together until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.

Add the sugar and mix.

Beat together the egg yolk and whole egg. Slowly add to the pastry mixture

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and stir until the pastry forms a ball. Wrap tightly in clingfilm and refrigerate for 2 hours.

Roll out the pastry on a lightly floured surface until it is 2mm thick. Use it to line an 18cm flan ring, placed on a baking sheet.

Line the flan ring with greaseproof paper and fill with baking beans. Bake blind for about 10 minutes or until the pastry is starting to turn golden brown. Remove the paper and beans, and allow the pastry to cool. Turn the oven down to 130C/250F/Gas Mark 1.

For the filling, bring the cream to the boil. Whisk the egg yolks and sugar together. Add to the cream and mix well.

Pour the mixture through a fine sieve into a jug.

Place the pastry case in the oven and pour in the custard mix right to the brim. Grate the nutmeg liberally over the top.

Bake the tart for 30–40 minutes or until the custard appears set but not too firm. Remove from the oven and allow to cool to room temperature before serving.

Serves 8

1 minute in boiling salted water. Refresh them in a bowl of iced water, and then peel off the tough outer skins. Wash the spinach and dry it on some paper towels.

Heat the olive oil in a medium pan, add the spinach and a pinch of salt and cook until the spinach is wilted.

To assemble the dish, preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas Mark 4. Place some spinach in 4 ovenproof dishes and cover with the mornay sauce. Crack an egg over the top of each dish, sprinkle with broad beans and bacon, and season with salt and pepper.

Put the dishes in a baking tin, pour in boiling water to come halfway up the sides of the dishes and bake for 8–10 minutes. The egg yolks should still be soft.

Serve the dish straight from the oven. The dishes will be piping hot, so place them on a plate.

Serves 4 Recipes reprinted, with kind permission, from the British Egg Information Service website britisheggweek.com

BONNE NUIT, SWEETHEART! Film goes time-travelling in Paris

THE world’s most romantic city is the setting for Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris, which was released at cinemas yesterday (Friday 7 October).

Gil (Owen Wilson) is intent on writing a novel. He wants to follow in the footsteps of great authors from the past, such as fellow American Ernest Hemingway.

When he and fiancée Inez (Rachel McAdams) take a trip to Paris, Inez shops, goes dancing and hangs out with friends. But Gil would rather walk alone through the streets, finding inspiration for his book.

One night, a vintage car drives alongside him. The passengers invite him to join them as they head for a bar. There, Gil realises that he has somehow been transported back to the 1920s. He is thrilled to meet Hemingway.

The next morning, baffled Gil returns to present-day Paris and his frustrating fiancée. But on subsequent nights similar things happen.

Gil spends time in the Twenties with Picasso’s mistress Adriana (Marion Cotillard), who attracts him. She believes that the Belle Epoque was Paris’s golden age and they head there – only to meet artists Gauguin and Degas, who believe the greatest era was the Renaissance.

Gil questions whether anybody

writes CLAIRE BRINE

is happy with the time in which they live. But he wonders whether he finds the present ‘a little unsatisfying because life is a little unsatisfying’.

It’s tempting to o imagine that everything in life would be better if we lived in a diff ferent time or place. ce.

Our present may feel dull. Maybe circumstancumstances beyond our control make it unbearable. earable.

Even if we are relatively latively content, perhaps there is a small part of uss which thinks: ‘There should bee more to life than this.’

The Bible tells lls us that all people can experience a life rich in purpose and nd meaning if they ey y follow Jesus. He said: ‘I came so o that everyone ne would have life, e, and have it fully,’ (John 10:10 Contemporary English Version).

If we form a relalationship with Jesus, us, we are forgiven for or our wrongs of the he past; we receive his support for the present; and we can have a future which is out of this world.

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Marion Cotillard and Owen Wilson