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FIGHTING FOR HEARTS AND SOULS

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SPY 007 HITS THE BIG FIVE-O FOR 50 years, James Bond has had a licence to thrill cinema audiences around the world. UK fans can expect to be shaken and stirred again, as the secret agent’s 23rd film was released yesterday (Friday 26 October).

Skyfall is Daniel Craig’s third appearance as the spy. But his latest mission endangers all of his MI6 colleagues. Spymaster M (Judi Dench) is forced to relocate the agency, but her own

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BONDED: Daniel Craig returns as James Bond in ‘Skyfall’

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News

ASSISTED SUICIDE ARGUMENTS CONSIDERED

YOUR prayers are requested for Givemore, for strength to overcome his weaknesses; and for Jane, who is awaiting brain surgery.

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Lord Falconer, Lord Harries and Professor Biggar

The War Cry invites readers to send in requests for prayer, including the names of individuals and details of their circumstances.

Send your requests to PRAYERLINK, The War Cry, 101 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6BN. Mark your envelope ‘Confidential’.

ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN

Christians stand united

Dying debate LORD FALCONER, Chair of the Commission on Assisted Dying, put the case for a change in the law to give assisted dying a legal framework during a public debate at King’s College London. ‘We have a law,’ he said, ‘which does not reflect society’s standards of compassion.’

Arguing that the law should remain unchanged, Professor Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford, said that the majority of health professionals are resistant to a change in the law, and that they were much more aware of the social implications than the general public.

The debate was chaired by the former Bishop of Oxford, Lord Harries, and co-sponsored

by King’s College London and the Christian Evidence Society.

NIGEL BOVEY

EXPOSED, an international campaign against institutional corruption, has been launched at Central Hall, Westminster. Campaign chairman, the Rev Joel Edwards, said: ‘Exposed is an opportunity for the Church to do what we are called to do – raise our voice in holy outrage and provide practical offerings of hope.’ marked the JAMAICANS CELEBRATE PATOIS TESTAMENT startTheof launch a 12-month awareness campaign. In the next year, millions of people will be mobilised to promote steps for ethical behaviour A Jamaican New of the West Indies, word of God in a in business, government Testament has the Rev Courtney way that has never and the Church. Organisers been launched at Stewart, said: ‘When happened before.’ aim to gather ten million the Jamaican High we first broached the He told The War signatures on a ‘global call’ Commission in subject of translating Cry: ‘Having against corruption, which London. The High the Scriptures into this translation will be presented to Commissioner, Her Jamaican it caused ppersonalises the G20 summit Excellency Aloun quite a stir because God’s word to in 2014.

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COMING SOON! The War Cry is Q going digital. As well as being available e as a printed newspaper, er, The War Cry will soon be available via an app. ree ‘By downloading a free app onto their Apple orr Android smartphone or tablet, readers will be able to get all the benefits of the War Cry they love in the he ys palm of their hand,’ says the paper’s Editor Major or Nigel Bovey.

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ABBY GETS THE ACTING HABIT

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The personal cost may be higher than he thought From page 1

SPOOKED: Bond goes in search of a villain

authority and position are challenged as her past returns to haunt her.

To seek and destroy the threat to his boss, Bond has to take to the shadows.

The personal cost to the man on Her Majesty’s secret service may turn out to be higher than he originally thought.

M is isolated. Her favourite agent is the only person she can rely on for even a quantum of solace and support.

When it comes to feeling alone, M is in good company.

Right throughout history, many

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people have experienced the misery of feeling isolated. They have had to face dangers or problems on their own.

Three thousand years ago, a man called David found himself in a similarly lonely position. He was a servant at the court of the Israelite King, Saul. Through no fault of his own, David fell out of favour with Saul, who wanted him dead. David found he had only one friend he could rely on – the King’s own son Jonathan, who acted as David’s spy in the royal palace.

But that was not the only help he had.

David believed in God and trusted that he would help him – however difficult and dangerous his circumstances were.

God did not let David down. He kept him safe from all the dangers he faced, eventually making David king in Saul’s place.

David wrote: ‘My God is my protection, and with him I am safe.

He protects me like a shield; he defends me and keeps me safe. I call to the Lord, and he saves me from my enemies’ (Psalm 18:2, 3 Good News Bible).

God can help us in the same way today. We might not be employed in high-level espionage, but we all have to work through times when we feel isolated and abandoned, with everyone turning against us.

The good news is that we do not have to face those times alone. God is willing to help and support us no matter what we have to go through or what we have done wrong in the past.

If we ask God to forgive us for those wrong things and then follow his way of living, he will never leave us to cope with life on our own.

Even if it feels as if the sky is falling down on us like a thunderball, we can always rely on God fulfilling his mission to save us.

TARGETED: Judi Dench as M

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Interview

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HAVE always loved acting,’ says Abby Guinness, who has been working as an actress and writer for the past ten years. ‘In my twenties, I worked for a Christian theatre company called Riding Lights with the intention of getting my passion for acting out of my system. It didn’t work, and I ended up going to drama school.’

Abby spills

It seems that Abby’s most difficult role so far is trying to manage her jam-packed career.

She frequently travels round churches, performing monologues taken from her own book The Word of the Wives. She is starring in a new play The God Particle, which she plans to take on tour and then perform at the Edinburgh Fringe next summer.

She has recently finished recording a series of audiobooks for children. She works part-time ‘doing creative stuff’ for the Christian organisation Spring Harvest. She leads workshops on acting and how to approach the Bible creatively. And, on top of all that, she has about six writing projects on the go, including a sitcom, a novel and another one-woman show.

‘I enjoy acting, because I love trying to find new and different ways of telling stories,’ she says. ‘In a live theatre performance, an actor gets to create something on stage which can’t ever be relived. I find that so exciting.’

Abby tells me about The God Particle and describes the character she plays.

‘It’s a romantic-comedy sci-fi,’ she says. ‘I play a quantum physicist and the other character is an academic-type country vicar. Throughout the play, the pair discuss science and faith while trying to solve a mystery. It’s a lot of fun and even involves a bit of time travel! We have performed the play in churches so far, but our aim is to get it into theatres, before hitting Edinburgh.’

Alongside her acting in The God Particle, Abby spends a great deal of time performing her monologues from The Word of the Wives, which

When ABBY GUINNESS was three years old, her parents found her talking to herself in a mirror and putting on an accent. It was then they knew they had a little actress on their hands, she tells Claire Brine

These biblical women were real women with real problems

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I have decided to believe in the truth of the Bible, even on the days when I struggle

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explores the ‘unheard women of the Bible’. The book features musings by the wives of significant Bible characters, such as Mrs Noah, Mrs Jonah and Mrs Zacchaeus.

‘I did not set out to write a book about the Bible WAGs,’ says Abby.

‘But I wrote one or two monologues, and then decided it would be fun to do an entire collection.

‘When writing, I’m interested in reading a well-known Bible story and thinking about the peripheral characters. And because the Bible doesn’t reveal much about Noah’s wife, for example, I could be free to make some decisions about what she was like. I tried to remain true to the Bible, but it was good having the space to ask questions.’

The Word of the Wives may feature a bunch of women who are barely men-

tioned in the Bible, but Abby hopes that sharing their stories will help people get to grips with the more nitty-gritty aspects of faith.

‘It can be easy to think that, because it is so old, the Bible is irrelevant to life today,’ she says. ‘But I wanted to show that these biblical women were real women with real relationships and problems. Human nature hasn’t really changed over the centuries.

‘I also wanted to help people engage with the stories by using a language that made sense to them. A lot of Bible stories are about agriculture and fishing, and some people struggle to identify with those things.’

And Abby doesn’t shy away from talking about the difficulties that she encounters in her own faith.

‘I have days when I question if God exists, and if he does, whether he is

good. But whatever I am feeling, I have reached the point where I trust that God is still God. I am a head person more than a heart person, so I have decided to believe in the truth of the Bible, even on the days when I struggle to feel it with my heart.’

Trusting God for the future is important to Abby. She knows that acting is a precarious career path.

‘When I was at drama school, I became very stressed because I worried about how I would make my career work. But today I try to see my career as though I am holding it out to God in an open hand. Whether I end up working in mainstream theatres or doing more Christian work doesn’t matter – God can use people in every field.’

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Media Cathedrals attract more guests

Comment

Gospel truth

‘CATHEDRALS enjoy surge in popularity even among atheists’ was the headline in The Daily Telegraph above an article reporting that more than a quarter of the population of England have been inside a cathedral in the past year.

The news piece – based on research by think-tank Theos – said that 11 million people, not including foreign tourists or school parties, had made a visit and that ‘while many were drawn by the historic art and architecture, large numbers also spoke of “spiritual” experiences’.

In The Guardian, journalist Andrew Brown explained: the ‘wife Gospel’, it appears, contains a repeated typo found in a downloadable version – but not the web version – of Michael Grondin’s Coptic-English translation of the Gospel of Thomas. Therefore, the Jesus’ wife fragment ‘could not have been composed before the PDF was available, no matter how old the papyrus turns out to be on which it was written’.

Pointing to the availability and capability of computer translation and engraving software, Mr Brown continued: ‘A little poking around in the world of gnostic scholarship shows that there has never been a better time to make your own gospels.’

NIGEL BOVEY

TO believers, the news that the ‘Gospel of Jesus’ Wife’ is a fake comes as little surprise. Despite the fact that the second-century papyrus fragment was brought to the world’s attention by a Harvard professor, last week a fellow American academic announced that the text includes a typo from a popular electronic version of the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas.

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Devilish music

Philosophy In truth, the making of one’s own gospel pre-dates the computer age. People have always shaped personal ‘gospels’. For the ancient Greeks, it was philosophy.

For Marx, it was anti-capitalism. For Hitler, it was racism. For those who don’t remember the Sixties, it was ‘if it feels good, do it’. Today’s postmodernist gospel is little more than ‘whatever!’

In an age of spirituality, the notion that ‘I have my own beliefs’ sounds laudable.

But a lifestyle based on not doing anybody any harm, being kind to the environment, supporting animal charities and opposing rampant globalisation is not the way to Heaven. If any of that was good enough, God needn’t have sent his Son to suffer an horrendous death so that the world could be redeemed and reconciled with its – with our – Creator.

That he did, and that through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ we can live with him for ever, is the authentic gospel.

NIGEL BOVEY

TO coin coincide with Hallowe’en, Danny Robins explores the influence of the occult on music in Despe Desperately Seeking Satan on Radio 6 Music next Wednesday (31 Octo October 12 midnight).

The presenter questions whether the Devil really does have the best tunes, before asking the form former Communards singer the th he Rev Richard Coles (pictured) for a divine take on the subject. su

Vicar preaches tenner loving care A VICAR handed out £10 notes to his congregation to encourage acts of kindness, reported the Daily Mail.

The Rev Paul Peverell gave the money to parishioners who attended the harvest services at Christ Church in Great Ayton, North Yorkshire. Mr Peverell

asked the recipients to use the monetary gift ‘imaginatively towards acts of goodwill in the local community’.

He explained: ‘It might be that [people] use that £10 to buy ingredients to bake, then drop their efforts off where they would be appreciated.’

By the banks of Loch Galilee PRESENTER Angus Roxburgh explores why the Church of Scotland is funding a luxury boutique hotel on the Sea of Galilee in Radio 4’s A Scottish Hotel in the Holy Land next Wednesday (31 October 11 am).

The programme tells the story of the Scots Hotel – owned and run by the Church of Scotland – in Tiberias.

The presenter reflects on the history of the hotel and why the Israeli Government halted renovations after an ancient Jewish graveyard was found in the grounds. He also seeks to understand why the Church remains loyal to the expensive project.

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Answers to ‘Are we nearly there yet?’

HALF-TERM is on its way, so it’s time to have some in-car entertainment ready. According to a study by satnav company TomTom, on average it takes just 27 minutes for children to get bored on long car journeys.

Of the nine nationalities surveyed, children in Australia got bored the quickest at 23 minutes – but UK kids are a close second at 24 minutes.

Children from Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, America, France and Germany are all more patient than British kids.

TomTom suggests that the average holiday car journey lasts about five hours, so children will start to misbehave long before the first services stop.

Mums are resourceful at keeping children amused.

I’M BORED: keeping children occupied on long journeys is a challenge

Nearly three quarters of mothers make up games, 52 per cent offer treats and rewards, and 24 per cent admit that they give an earlier estimated time of arrival to make the journey seem shorter.

While 60 per cent of mums said that ‘being together as a family’ was the best part of a family trip, they also knew it could be stressful.

Forty-one per cent thought that being in the car with their children was far more stressful than being at the office, and 36 per cent said they were likely to argue with their partner during the journey.

App helps find cheap spaces

NEW research suggests that the cost of car parking has grown from being a necessary inconvenience into a leading factor in the in d de t deterioration of UK high streets.

A According to Confused.com, last year parking prices rose 12.5 per cent, forcing motorists to s spend close to a whopping £ billion a year on parking. £8 T The online insurer found that expensive parking is proving to be ex a turn-off for the majority of UK shoppers. More than two thirds of s drivers say they avoid shopping d a are re with high parking prices. areas At a time when 20 high street A

shops are closing every day throughout the UK, two thirds of drivers say that more affordable parking would make them return to the high street.

More than three quarters of drivers spend up to £150 on parking each month. While this might seem steep, it’s a far cry from prices in Knightsbridge, London, where the country’s most expensive car park charges £36 for three hours.

To help, the insurer has launched Confused.com Parking – a mobile app that shows users the cheapest car parks in their area.

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What’s going on

Wheel deal FOR a few weeks during the sumGLENDA mer, the world seemed to revolve PIKE tells around Stratford in East London as Olympians and Paralympians set Philip their sights on medals, records and personal bests while record-breakHalcrow ing crowds cheered them on. And for two days a church in the area about Wheels became a hub for an effort to provide for the World everyday equipment for Paralympic athletes and officials from poorer countries. At St John’s Church, supporters of Wheels for the World wheelchairs and other mobility aids, – a programme run by headed for Stratford.

‘We saw more than 50 people of Christian charity Through the Roof – fitted them 26 nationalities,’ says Wheels for the World co-ordinator Glenda Pike. ‘Three with kit to improve their therapists assessed people. Some were mobility. given wheelchairs, which Dr Fred Sorrells, president of the International Institute of Sport, contacted Wheels for the World with the information that many of the athletes and teams from poorer countries did not have their own wheelchairs or well-fitted aids, so needed to borrow or share equipment to get around at the Games. The programme, which collects, refurbishes and distributes

were adjusted to their needs; others needed new crutches or ferrules for them. One of the people we gave a wheelchair to was Mary Nakhumicha Zakayo who was one of the two athletes presented with a special award during the closing ceremony.’

Mary – who received the Whang Youn Dai Award, which honours Paralympians

In some countries disabled people have to crawl around

A child is fitted with a special buggy in Uganda A Wheels for the World physiotherapist measures an athlete during London 2012

who ‘have used their lives beyond sporting performances to inspire and excite the world’ – competed in the discuss, shot put and javelin. She won a silver medal in the javelin at the Beijing Games. In Kenya she makes her

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living by selling goods at the roadside.

But she does not have her own wheelchair. The wheelchair gift should help her work and get to training more easily.

Glenda says that Fred Sorrells helped to spread the message in the Olympic and Paralympic Village about Wheels for the World’s wheelchair distribution.

‘It wasn’t just the athletes who came to us,’ she says. ‘Officials of the Paralympic committees in some of the countries also needed assistance. One man had borrowed a wheelchair to use in the UK. At home he didn’t have one, so had to crawl on the ground.

‘In some countries disabled people – often those who have had polio – have to crawl around. We will always give a wheelchair to someone who has crawled on the ground their whole life.

We want to give them dignity.’

Wheels for the World’s time in Stratford was simply an extraordinary example of the hard work it and its supporters put in, day in, day out around the world, to increase disabled people’s independence.

The start for Through the Roof and its Wheels for the World programme came in 1997. Since then it has distributed 7,800 wheelchairs to people in developing countries.

In the UK, Wheels for the World drivers collect donations of wheelchairs that are no longer needed by the NHS. ‘These are chairs that would not be cost-effective for the NHS to repair,’ says Glenda. ‘At one time, a lot of NHS wheelchairs were going to landfill.’

People are also able to make donations at storage points in Fordingbridge, near Salisbury, and Epsom.

The next stop for the wheelchairs is

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What’s going on

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‘Prisoners strip the chairs to their nuts and bolts, clean them, respray them and put them back together so they are as good as new,’ explains Glenda.

‘The prisoners enjoy the work – there is a waiting list to work in the workshop. They get paid a nominal sum, but they are also learning skills and can gain a qualification. It can help them when they are released.’

The prison staff are also supportive – two officers ‘came up and acted as techies’ at the Paralympic wheelchair distribution.

When the wheelchairs are ready to roll, Wheels for the World take them to countries where people do not have easy access to mobility aids. Over the years, these countries have included Romania, Albania, Jordan and Ethiopia.

‘We do three distributions a year, and at the moment we are mainly working in Kenya, Ghana and Uganda,’ says Glenda. ‘We ship out a container – which might contain up to 300 chairs – and then send out a team of occupational therapists, physiotherapists, wheel technicians and admin staff.

They fit all the chairs individually.

‘We work with Christian organisations that are already in the country, because they have built up trust in the communities.

‘We base ourselves at existing centres. For instance, in Kenya, we’ve worked out of a hospice where people come to get their drugs, and in Uganda we’ve had a tent in the grounds of some charity offices. People come to the centres. We also take chairs out to other localities.’

Glenda says that in giving chairs away, the teams are often tackling more than physical problems.

‘Often there is a huge stigma of

Above: a javelin athlete from Niger is fitted with a new chair during London 2012 Right: a Wheels for the World team in Uganda PHIL GREEN

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disability in African countries. Some people think that a person is disabled because their parents must have sinned.

So disabled people will often be hidden away.

‘We have come across an example of this in Kenya. A pastor came to a centre with one of the children in his church. It was a difficult journey, involving about five minibus changes.

‘The team fitted the child with a wheelchair. When the pastor and child got back home, many other people revealed they had a disabled child.

So when our team returned to carry out another distribution at a nearby centre, many people came with disabled children that the pastor for the area didn’t even know existed.

‘So, as well as giving mobility aids, we try to give communities the awareness that God loves people, whether they are disabled or not. We are trying to show God’s love in a practical way by giving a wheelchair, but we also offer people a Bible in their own language and we pray with them if they want us to.

‘We try to let people know that they are all made in God’s image and that we

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are precious to him.’

That message is the motivation for Wheels for the World, and for its parent charity Through the Roof – which is named after the Bible story in which four men carry their paralysed friend to the house in which Jesus is teaching but, being unable to make their way through the crowds at the door, lower him through the roof.

Alongside Wheels for the World, Through the Roof runs other programmes to promote and live out its beliefs.

Glenda explains: ‘Churches Inc helps raise awareness of disability issues in churches and helps them improve access. DCF – the Disabled Christians Fellowship – provides holidays for disabled people. Integr8 is Through the Roof’s youth programme.’

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‘to transform lives through disabled people’. Wheels for the World’s first container of chairs was shipped in 1998. That and the 40-plus containers that have followed have helped disabled people transform lives after their own lives have been transformed.

‘In Kenya,’ says Glenda, ‘there was a tailor who was disabled. He worked outside his hut. Then he was given a wheelchair. So the local people made a pathway so that he could get nearer the main road to do his sewing. Being near the road brought him a lot more work. And that work meant that he was able to pay for the education of his six children through school.

‘Being given a wheelchair enabled him to do that.’

O For more information visit throughtheroof.org

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

Look up, down, forwards, backwards and diagonally on the grid to find these London landmarks

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QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS 1. Colossal (4) 3. Light blow (3) 5. Fewer (4) 7. Rise and fall (9) 9. By word of mouth (4) 10. Break (4) 11. Metal structure (5) 14. US film award (5) 15. Made mistake (5) 17. Bury (5) 18. Monarchs (5) 19. Meeting place (5) 20. Weird (5) 23. Overdue (4) 25. At this place (4) 27. Tired (9) 28. Tot (4) 29. Foot part (3) 30. Byway (4)

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LONDON EYE MARITIME MUSEUM TATE MODERN THAMES BARRIER THE MALL TOWER BRIDGE TOWER OF LONDON

HONEYCOMB Each solution starts on the coloured cell and reads clockwise round the number

DOWN 1. Forbid (4) 2. Cash register (4) 3. Unsteady (5) 4. Mickey’s dog (5) 5. Auction items (4) 6. Halt (4) 7. Enchant (9) 8. Delighted (9) 11. Lever (5) 12. Not yet (5) 13. Boldness (5) 14. Acorn tree (3) 16. Perish (3) 21. Play out (5) 22. Outcome (5) 23. Noisy (4) 24. Test (4) 25. Pile (4) 26. Engrave (4)

QUICK QUIZ 1. What band sang the theme tune to the TV series Friends?

2. What river runs through Budapest?

3. What kitchen product’s advertising slogan begins ‘Now hands that do dishes’?

4. Where in the human body is Broca’s area?

1. Made from the pressed curds of milk 2. Number that is the product of 9 and 10 3. Burrowing mammal with long ears 4. Walk awkwardly, typically because of pain 5. Senior member of the Christian clergy 6. Thick oily substance used as a lubricant

5. What do the Swahili words ‘hakuna matata’ mean in English?

6. How many complete symphonies did Beethoven write?

QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Vast. 3 Rap. 5 Less.

7 Fluctuate. 9 Oral. 10 Snap. 11 Pylon.

14 Oscar. 15 Erred. 17 Inter. 18 Kings.

19 Venue. 20 Eerie. 23 Late. 25 Here.

27 Exhausted. 28 Dram. 29 Toe. 30 Path.

DOWN: 1 Veto. 2 Till. 3 Rocky. 4 Pluto.

5 Lots. 6 Stop. 7 Fascinate. 8 Entranced.

11 Prise. 12 Later. 13 Nerve. 14 Oak. 16 Die. 21 Enact. 22 Issue. 23 Loud.

24 Exam. 25 Heap. 26 Etch.

QUICK QUIZ 1 The Rembrandts. 2 The Danube.

3 Fairy Liquid. 4 The brain. 5 No worries.

6 Nine.

HONEYCOMB 1 Cheese. 2 Ninety. 3 Rabbit. 4 Hobble.

5 Bishop. 6 Grease.

Inner life

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WHAT do Jason Donovan, Phillip Schofield and Lee Mead have in common?

They’ve all played the lead role in the musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice.

Great songs. Great story. But did you know that it comes from the Bible?

There’s much more to the tale than a multicoloured coat. Joseph’s father, Jacob, had several wives and 12 sons.

Joseph was the eleventh. He and his younger brother Benjamin were the sons of Jacob’s favourite wife, Rachel. She died in childbirth, which made those two boys particularly special to Jacob. As in any family, this caused jealousy and resentment.

A doting Jacob gave the famous coat of many colours – probably a very ornate garment – to Joseph. To his brothers, this was blatant favouritism.

It also didn’t help that Joseph told them

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ROSEMARY DAWSON looks at what the Bible has to say about everyday issues

Brotherly love Genesis 37 to 50 Egypt. Then they went home to tell Jacob their made-up tale about Joseph being attacked.

Why is this an important Bible story?

Because God had a greater plan for Joseph’s life than wasting away in a well. For all his faults, this spoilt, cocky teenager was to play a key role in the future of the Jewish nation.

O Next week: What happens to Joseph in Egypt

To his brothers, this was blatant favouritism LOOKING FOR HELP? Library picture posed by model

again and again about his spectacular dreams, earning him the nickname ‘Joseph the dreamer’.

In the first dream, he and his brothers were binding sheaves of corn. Then Joseph’s sheaf stood upright, and the other 11 bowed down to it. In the second, Joseph dreamt that the sun, moon and 11 stars were all bowing down to him.

You can just imagine how well that went down. Possibly along the lines of: ‘If you think we’re going to bow down to you…!’

The brothers hated Joseph so much that they plotted to kill him. When he came out to help them shepherd the family flocks, they stripped him of his coat and smeared it with animal’s blood to convince their father that he had been attacked.

Reuben, the eldest, suggested they throw Joseph down a deep, empty well rather than kill him. They did, but in the end they hauled him out of it and sold him for 20 pieces of silver to a caravan of merchants who were on their way to

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The War Cry 27 October 2012

Food for thought

IT seems to me that the world is becoming more and more like a global village. Countries which our ancestors never saw are now relatively easy to travel to, thanks to the development of transport. Internet video tools such as Skype and FaceTime mean we can see friends living on the other side of the world physically accessible these at the click of a button. days – and the world may feel The more close-knit the world seems to become, the more one country can have an impact on another. For example, when the stock market crashed in the USA, there was a knock-on effect on the finances of other countries. Two years ago, an ash cloud from a volcano in Iceland affected air travel in much of Europe and North America.

Countries can affect each other in positive ways, too.

It is good when a medical breakthrough in the UK also benefits lives across the globe in New Zealand.

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We have to respect our similarities and differences

that ‘no man is an island’. He recognised that humankind is not self-sufficient. We need other people to live.

Perhaps Donne learnt this from Jesus, who taught us to love our neighbours, whether they are male, female, rich, poor, black or white. By emphasising the importance of loving those around us, Jesus demonstrated two things.

First, he acknowledged the human need for relationship.

Secondly, he pointed out that our love for others should be all-inclusive and not reserved only for people like us.

When we consider our local and global neighbours, how accepting are we?

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smaller because of it – but the fact that countries have more frequent contact does not necessarily mean they enjoy a greater sense of community.

To be truly close to our neighbours, it isn’t good enough to live next door. We have to love them. We have to respect our similarities and differences.

The poet John Donne wrote

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What’s cooking?

Autumnal sausage casserole

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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 chefmike56@chefmikedarracott.com

Cook with chef MICHAEL DARRACOTT chefmikedarracott.com

Strawberry dumplings Ingredients: 100g self-raising flour, sifted 50g suet 4 drops of vanilla essence 3tsp caster sugar 2tsp icing sugar 8tbsp water 9 strawberries, hulled 4tbsp vegetable oil

Ingredients: 3tbsp olive oil or vegetable oil 8 Cumberland sausages 2 vegetable stock cubes 1tsp paprika 1tsp oregano ½ tsp garlic powder Salt and pepper, to taste 30g tomato purée 1.4l hot water ½ red pepper, cut into thin slices ½ yellow pepper, cut into thin slices 1 small onion, finely chopped 100g sweetcorn, canned or frozen 100g carrots, thinly sliced 20g leeks, sliced 100g parsnips, diced 50g frozen peas 50g mushrooms, thinly sliced

Method: Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas Mark 4.

Place a frying pan over a low heat and add the oil. Once the oil is hot, cook the sausages for 10–12 minutes. Cut each sausage in half and set aside.

Place the stock cubes, paprika, oregano, garlic, salt, pepper and tomato purée in a large jug and pour on the hot water. Mix well.

Place the red and yellow peppers, onion, sweetcorn, carrots, leeks, parsnips and sausage pieces in an ovenproof casserole dish. Pour over the stock, making sure the ingredients are well covered.

Cook the casserole in the oven for 50 minutes, then remove the dish and add SUDOKU SOLUTION the peas and mushrooms.

Return to the oven for a further 25 minutes before serving.

Serves 4

Method: Mix the flour and suet in a bowl until they are combined into fine crumbs. Add the vanilla essence, caster sugar, 1tsp icing sugar and water and mix together to make a firm but workable dough. Divide the dough into 8 balls, then cover with clingfilm and leave in the fridge for 15 minutes.

Remove the dough balls from the fridge, then place some flour on your hands and worktop. Take a strawberry and wrap it in one of the dough balls. Roll the mixture around in your hand until the strawberry is completely covered.

Repeat with the remaining strawberries and dough balls, reserving 1 strawberry to garnish.

Cook the dumplings in a frying pan until they are golden brown, then place two on each plate. Sprinkle the remaining icing sugar over each dumpling and serve with hot custard, garnishing each serving with a quarter of the remaining strawberry.

Serves 4

RA! Ra! Ra! It’s game day tomorrow (Sunday 28 October), when at 5 pm UK time, the St Louis Rams take on the New England Patriots at Wembley, England, in week eight of the NFL season.

The Rams are the ‘home’ side, but as they haven’t played in England before, home advantage might not count for much.

The Patriots claim to be the most popular NFL side in the UK, even though this is only their second game on Old English soil. The first time mee tthe he P Pats ats ran onto Wembley’s at sacred cred cr ed tturf u f was in 20 ur 2009, 009, when they ran outt 35 35-7 5-7 7 winne winners n rs oover ver the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. ucc ccaneers.

Time to play by the book To the untrained eye, American football looks as chaotic as Buckaroo on ice. So here’s a rundown.

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(or ‘plays’) to gain ten yards. If they score, or fail to make the full ten yards, possession passes to the other side.

The quarterback is the on-field general. A place-kicker comes on just for the kick-off and conversion attempts.

There are a host of players – tackles, linebackers and safeties – whose job is to play the man and not the ball.

Speaking order into the chaos of 22 players pushing, blocking, passing and running is the coach.

The coach has a playbook – a set of practised attacking and defensive moves – that, if followed, will help his team overcome any resistance. There are few guarantees, of course, in sport or in life. But in the chaos of everyday life, we need to be clear on where we are heading.

Jesus has a game plan. It is to get as many people (as want to) to the end zone called Heaven. To get there, our first move is to admit that our way is wrong, to ask his forgiveness and to commit ourselves to doing what he says.

When we do, we’ll find that life with him becomes a whole new ball game.

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