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The Glee Club enjoy a sing-song

GLEE MEMBERS HELP EACH OTHER FACE SPIRITUAL QUESTIONS writes CLAIRE BRINE

CLUB TOGETHER

SO, here’s what’s happening on Glee, the American teenage musical comedy series shown on E4. Next Monday (24 January) Finn makes a cheese toastie and sees the image of Jesus burnt into the bread, prompting a newfound interest in prayer. Kurt’s dad has a heart attack and ends up in Turn to page 3 E4

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SALVATION ARMY HELPS IN AUSTRALIA

Teams give food and comfort in floods

Queensland Salvationists prepare meals

HAITI WORK GOES ON

Clinics help in cholera outbreak

CLOTHES SHOW SECOND-HAND SKILLS

Students team up with shop for fashion fix

THE Salvation Army is I continuing to provide treatment to people in Haiti who are suffering in the cholera outbreak. It is also trying to help communities prevent further spread of the disease.

The organisation’s clinic in Port-au-Prince has received supplies of soap, bleach, antibiotics and oral rehydration packets to distribute in the fight against cholera.

In Fond des Negres, The Salvation Army’s Bethel Clinic is operating a cholera treatment centre containing 17 beds and is looking to work at a further site with the assistance of the Haitian Government.

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FASHION students have been redesigning items of second-hand clothing and using them to create window displays in a Salvation Army charity shop in Blackpool.

Blackpool South charity shop manager Paul Hill approached students at the Blackpool and the Fylde College and Blackpool Sixth Form College and encouraged them to take an interest in clothes recycling.

Since then more than 40 students have taken articles of donated clothing from the shop and transformed them into more fashionable items. The new designs are handed back to the charity shop to be sold.

The project has formed part of the students’ BTEC course.

‘I thought it would be good to try to spread the appeal of buying second-hand clothes to younger people while also helping their studies and enabling them to understand a little about the work of The Salvation Army,’ says Paul.

The students also see the

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partnership as positive. Kelsey Easter says: ‘The whole experience of making a garment for the shop was very rewarding as it was for charity.’

SINCE floods drove people from their homes in the Brisbane area, The Salvation Army has been working at five major evacuation centres.

In Toowoomba, Salvation Army teams are playing a part in the relief and clean-up efforts.

Captain Mark Bulow was in the city when it was hit by a wall of water up to eight metres high and one kilometre wide.

‘Toowoomba is at the top of a mountain range – it never floods,’ he said. ‘Nobody had ever witnessed what we saw on that day. You could hear the wall of water before you could see it. Some kids were playing in the water on the side of the road, and people were just yelling at them to get out of the way. Within seconds cars, industrial containers and other huge objects were being swept down by this torrent of water.’

Captain Mark and his wife Captain Jo-Anne Bulow have been spending time with a man who was bereaved of his wife and two of his children when the flood waters swept away the car in which they were travelling.

Salvation Army teams in Queensland are continuing to feed flood victims, volunteers and state emergency services.

Paul Hill (right) with some of the fashion students

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Sue chats with Kurt

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hospital. Put the two happenings together and what have you got? An awesome opportunity for the Glee Club – the show choir at William McKinley High School – to discover how they relate to God and sing songs about spirituality.

After uncovering his ‘grilled Cheesus’, Finn suggests to Glee club members that they pay tribute to Jesus through song. The group have mixed feelings about his idea.

Churchgoing Mercedes is keen. Quinn admits that in the past she has turned to God for help. But Kurt doesn’t believe in God and doesn’t want to sing about faith.

After his father has a heart attack, Kurt describes God as ‘a kind of jerk’. The other members of Glee Club then begin to question their own views.

Rachel expresses

how she feels by singing a number from the musical Yentl, in which she asks God: ‘Papa, can you hear me?’

Mercedes tries to comfort Kurt by singing about the presence of God: ‘After all my strength is gone, in you I can be strong.’

Even the teachers grapple with the notion of faith. Sue doesn’t understand why her sister – who has Down’s syndrome – has never been healed, despite her prayers.

Miss Pillsbury admits to Finn that everybody has big questions which are very hard to answer.

After some persuasion, Kurt agrees to attend church with Mercedes.

During the service Mercedes reminds the congregation of the importance of faith.

‘You’ve got to believe in something more than you can touch, taste or see,’ she says. ‘Because life’s too hard to go through it alone without something to hold on to.’

It certainly is.

Life is full of drama and

difficulties. The scenes of our life don’t always turn out as we hope. A loved one suddenly becomes ill. A friend’s selfish actions hurt us. We ourselves say or do something that strikes the wrong note.

At times we may think that we are facing our problems alone. But we don’t have to feel that way.

Instead we can cling on to God and find hope.

Taking the step of putting our trust in God does not necessarily come easily to us. But many people find peace when they talk to him about their concerns. They find comfort, simply in knowing that he listens.

They also find forgiveness for their mistakes and strength to face the future.

They know for themselves the truth offered by one of the Bible writers: ‘Trust God, my friends, and always tell him each one of your concerns. God is our place of safety’ (Psalm 62:8 Contemporary English Version).

Whatever life throws at us, we can tell God about it. If we trust him, he brings comfort; he gives us strength; he forgives us. God is constantly by our side.

Sounds good.

4 The War Cry 22 January 2011 Howard and Sue and (below) a picture of Lydia under the tree which she planted

HOWARD HARDING tells Claire Brine how he and his wife found release from grief after the death of their daughter

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EING told that your 14-year-old child has cancer is every parent’s worst nightmare,’ says Howard Harding. He knows what he’s talking about – because it happened to him and his wife, Sue.

‘When our daughter Lydia became ill we asked God why. When she died at 17, I felt as if someone had hit me in the stomach.’

Until Lydia’s illness was diagnosed, family life had revolved around attending church in Chippenham, playing sports and enjoying music. Life was good.

But in 1998 a lump on Lydia’s knee was found to be malignant – osteosarcoma.

Doctors said Lydia’s leg would need to be amputated.

‘We prayed,’ says Howard.

‘Friends all over the world prayed. Our prayers were answered. Instead of removing Lydia’s leg, the surgeon replaced her knee joint, tibia and fibia with titanium steel.

‘Lydia also started a course of chemotherapy. She lost her hair.

She lost her confidence. She lost a lot of weight, dropping to less than four stone.

‘Chemo made Lydia’s whole body ache. She was sick. She had ulcers in her mouth. She just sat for hours, not able to move.’

After the treatment Lydia’s cancer went into remission. Ten months later it returned, in her lungs.

‘Doctors suggested opening up Lydia’s back and taking out her ribs so that they could remove the tumours. But Lydia said: “I’ve had enough of this. I’d rather die.”

‘A friend of ours told us about a Christian hospital in Mexico called Oasis of Hope. Its treatment was based on natural substances to boost the immune system. There was a huge chance it wouldn’t work for Lydia. But we had to try.’

The day after Lydia turned 16, she flew to Mexico with her parents. People at the clinic prayed for the patients. They could attend

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Bible studies. There was laughter.

Howard describes it as ‘a wonderful place’.

When the family returned home, an X-ray showed that Lydia’s original tumours had stopped growing; but new tumours were growing rapidly.

‘Lydia became so weak she couldn’t sit up any more,’ says Howard. ‘It was time for us to say goodbye.

‘Lydia died on a Sunday. At 5.45 am she called Sue and me, and asked for a drink. We got her some water, but she barely drank it. She lay down, so we went back to bed. Later we heard Lydia cry out, and we ran into her room.

She was convulsing. Then she slumped on the bed. She lay there for two hours, cried one last tear and slipped away.

I felt overjoyed that Lydia’s tree was being used in a positive way

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Lydia and Sue enjoy strawberries

‘I felt like my heart was going to burst,’ weeps Howard. ‘I was in such pain. I wailed. Sue and I clung to each other for a long time.’

Lydia’s parents found that watching her suffer and die was heartbreaking. But facing life without her proved just as painful.

‘Caring for Lydia used to take so much time that we forgot about ourselves,’ remembers Howard.

‘Suddenly we had all this time on our hands and nothing to do with it. I felt empty.’

Howard and Sue also had other problems. They received anonymous hate mail in which they were accused of mishandling money that people had donated to fund Lydia’s Mexico trip. The police investigated the claims and found there was no case to answer. Sue, unable to cope with the accusations on top of her grief, took an overdose. Howard left work to become her full-time carer.

worker gave her a sapling so that she could grow a horse chestnut tree. When Lydia died we gave the tree to her primary school in her memory. Years passed, and I forgot about it.

‘Then last April I was chatting to a woman at the abbey about Lydia. She told me that she worked at Lydia’s school and had been teaching the children about new life under her horse chestnut tree. I felt overjoyed that Lydia’s tree was being used in a positive way.

‘Later in the service we sang a hymn which included the words: “The days of mourn-

Lydia celebrates her 16th birthday

ing are over.” Sue and I looked at each other and instantly felt released from our gut-wrenching grief. We hugged and cried.’

Today Howard and Sue still miss Lydia. But they have turned a corner. Howard has gone back to work. And the couple have a message of encouragement for those who are mourning the loss of a loved one.

‘Difficult as life may be, there is a light at the end of the tunnel,’ Howard says. ‘In God we can always find hope for the future.’

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or the following nine years Howard and Sue struggled to come to terms with Lydia’s death. They found some comfort in attending seminars for bereaved parents run

by Christian charity, Care for the Family. But they felt guilty whenever they enjoyed themselves.

They read Lydia’s diary, which was agonising.

‘Lydia had written: “Why am I so ugly, God? I want to die.” Our grief was destroying us.’

But last year, while attending Easter services at Malmesbury Abbey, the couple had a lifechanging experience.

Howard explains: ‘When Lydia was a child a Christian youth

Howard and Sue remember Lydia

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MEDIA

Bring to book IT may never win one of the many annual literary awards but the Book of the Year 2011 will be the King James Bible.

This year the most celebrated English translation of the Bible celebrates its 400th birthday.

STATE workers will be asked questions about their religious beliefs under new equality requirements, reports The Daily Telegraph.

According to the paper, council, hospital and school staff will be asked to fill in questionnaires in which they state their faith, sexuality and any disabilities they may have.

The questionnaires are not compulsory but have been designed to ‘help tackle pay gaps or bullying’. Individuals and volunteer groups will assess the data, aiming to highlight cases of discrimination.

Teenagers look for dates EASTER and Christmas have been missed out of diaries printed for teenagers by the European Union, reported the Daily Mail.

According to the paper, the diaries contained many religious festivals, as well as Europe Day on 9 May, but omitted the Christian dates. It quoted Martin Kastler, a German Conservative MEP, as blaming the omission on ‘aggressive atheism’ in the EU.

PRESENTER Brian D’Arcy considers I Jesus’ blessing of ‘those who hunger and thirst for righteousness’ on Radio 2’s Sunday Half Hour tomorrow (23 January). The programme – which is part of a series on the Beatitudes – will use music, prayer and words of reflection to explore the subject of good ethical behaviour.

Hymns, sung by the Coventry Singers, include ‘O For A Closer Walk With God’.

ON THE BOX SEX education in schools is the topic discussed in Channel 4’s 4thought.tv every day from I Monday (24 January). On Tuesday, Clement Okusi, senior pastor of the Potter’s House Christian Church in Croydon, expresses his view that children should be taught abstinence until marriage.

Actress recalls first nativity role ROSAMUND PIKE told Empire magazine that she played the part of the Virgin Mary in her first school play.

The actress, who appears in the forthcoming film Barney’s Version, said: ‘I remember people finding it very funny when the Archangel Gabriel told me I was going to have a baby and I said “I am pleased”.

Which is a bit of an understatement considering it was the Son of God.’

Rosamund Pike in ‘Barney’s Version’

CINEMA

Even in this age driven by hype, puff and froth, the simple truth is that no book has had greater impact on the English-speaking world. It is the Bible upon which monarchs take their coronation oath, upon which inaugurated American presidents swear, and which has adorned living-room bookcases for years.

In everyday use since 1611, the King James Bible is admired for its beautiful language. One of those helping the King James Bible Trust’s YouTube Bible-reading project is Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion.

‘You can’t appreciate English literature unless you are steeped to some extent in the King James Bible,’ he says. ‘We are a Christian culture, we come from a Christian culture and not to know the King James Bible is to be, in some small way, barbarian.

‘It is important to make the case that the Bible is part of our heritage and doesn’t have to be tied to religion. It’s of historical and literary interest. It’s important that religion should not be allowed to hijack this cultural resource.’

Not for the first time, Dawkins causes a stir. The Bible ‘not hijacked by religion’? What!

For Christians, the Scriptures are God’s word. Into them God has breathed, through them God speaks and by them (when obeyed) God brings life.

But Dawkins has a point. This particular version of the Bible is a product of its time and culture. It also has an impact on people of no faith.

The Christian faith is based on allegiance not to a book but to a different Word of God – Jesus.

And when militant atheist Dawkins admits ‘we are a Christian culture’, the Word might just be having some life-changing impact on him.

Will faith category tick all the boxes?

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THIS winter has been one of the worst Britain has seen in 100 years. Because of the freezing temperatures, Britain is fast becoming a nation of homebirds. Many people now spend Saturday nights snuggled up in front of the television. But could this be damaging to our health?

Research conducted by Weight Watchers highlights that 28 per cent of the population spend more than 15 hours a day sitting down.

The British Chiropractic Association (BCA) warns that we could all be ‘strictly come aching’ as a result.

Poor posture is one of the biggest causes of back pain.

Thirty-two per cent of the nation are suffering from back pain and 62 per cent have suffered in the past.

Tim Hutchful from the BCA says: ‘As a nation, we like to sit down. While resting is good for our bodies, there is almost twice as much pressure on the back when sitting incorrectly than there is when standing. Sitting for prolonged periods of time coupled with incorrect posture leaves us prone to back pain.’

These tips from the BCA can help you enjoy Saturday

Poor posture can cause back pain

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let winter hold you nights in front of the TV safely: Sit up Sit in chairs that provide full support for your spine and make sure that your shoulders, hips and knees face the same direction.

Stand up Avoid sitting in the same position for more than 40 minutes. When you do take

a break, walk around and stretch a little.

Exercise Compensate for inactivity during advert breaks. Do some light exercise that will loosen your muscles.

The BCA has devised a simple three-minute exercise routine called Straighten Up UK. It can be downloaded from straightenupuk.org.

Healthy food for thought SATURATED fats can increase levels of cholesterol in our bodies.

We can keep levels down by making small changes to our diet.

At home: G Cook chicken without the skin, fish or turkey for a low-fat alternative to red meat.

G Switch to healthy snacks such as fruit and veg, seeds or a handful of unsalted nuts instead of crisps, chocolate and pastries.

Eating out: G Enjoy a Chinese meal the lowfat way by choosing steamed fish or chicken chop suey.

G Opt for a pizza topped with lots of veg, fish or chicken instead of extra cheese or pepperoni.

By eating a low-fat diet, exercising daily and not smoking, we can keep our heart and arteries healthy.

Health tips provided by Heart Research UK. For more information call 0113 297 6206

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HEN Peter Lupson entered the field of football writing he made an immediate impact. Fans, the media and clubs sat up and took notice of his book Thank God for Football!, which highlighted how churches played an important role early doors in the game’s history by founding English clubs such as Manchester City, Everton and Bolton.

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Since its publication in 2006 Peter has been invited to speak to fans about his research. He has attended services held by clubs to mark the restoration of their founders’ graves.

The National Football Museum has made plans to stage a touring writes PHILIP HALCROW exhibition of the Church’s of the characters who played a role in starting clubs. vital part in their beginnings.

Illustrated book highlights football’s forgotten history

Now Peter has compiled Thank God for Football! – The Illustrated Companion, a volume providing edited highlights of the clubs’ histories accompanied by pictures

It also reports on how clubs have responded to his research.

Peter wrote the original book because boys were being ridiculed for playing in the church league he started on Merseyside. He wanted to show them how churches had helped to start clubs, including local side Everton. ‘I felt that if I wrote a book about church boys playing football in Victorian times, it would encourage them,’ he says. ‘I wanted them to realise that they were not odd bods but part of a rich tradition.

‘As I researched the book, I became conscious that the people who founded those clubs were very special. I thought it would be great if clubs

could know just how much they owe to these humble clergymen and other Christians.

‘To my astonishment, that is precisely what happened.’

People in various positions within the game – club officials, historians and supporters – have formed partnerships with Peter.

‘For instance, Everton FC Heritage Society, which is a group of historians who dig deep into the club’s history, invited me to be its vice-

chairman – even though I’m a Norwich City supporter!’ he says. ‘So I have been able to give talks to Everton supporters and shareholders about the Christian roots of their club.’

Everton were formed in 1878 by the Rev Ben Swift Chambers of St Domingo Methodist Chapel. Later, when a disagreement occurred between some of the club’s members and its first presi-

The people who founded those clubs were very special PHILIP HALCROW

Peter signs copies of his book at its launch in Liverpool Cathedral

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Steven Pienaar (left) and Stuart Holden fight for possession in a match between Everton and Bolton – two clubs founded by church people

dent, a local brewer and politician named John Houlding, the two sides went their separate ways. Everton built Goodison Park while Houlding’s team continued to play at the club’s ground – Anfield – under the name Liverpool.

But, as Peter pointed out in Thank God for Football!, the clubs did not walk on with bitterness in their hearts. When Houlding died, Liverpool and Everton players carried his coffin and flags flew at half-mast at Anfield and Goodison.

Peter says: ‘Rick Parry, who was the chief executive of Liverpool, liked the chapter I wrote in Thank God for Football! about the Everton-

Liverpool story and how it finished on a note of reconciliation. He asked me if I could write a book that brought the theme of reconciliation up to the present. So I wrote Across the Park – referring to Stanley Park, which separates the clubs’ grounds – and told the story of the bonds between Everton and Liverpool.

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found it exciting to be able to tell how, until after the Second World War, the two clubs worshipped together once a year at the chapel where Everton was founded. They called

the day Football Sunday.

‘I met the two daughters of the minister who conducted those services in the 1930s.

They are now in their nineties.

They told me that those services were so popular that, even though they were the minister’s daughters, they had to have an early tea to be sure of a seat.’

Peter’s investigations have become a badge of pride for Swindon Town.

The club was founded by a Peter with curate named William Baker Bolton Pitt. He had wanted to bridge secretary the divide which had emerged Simon between the ‘old town’ and Marland at ‘new town’ when the GWR the grave of railway works brought an the club’s influx of workers. founder – For years the Robins had which the hopped between two possible club dates for their foundation – restored 1879 and 1881. But, after tak(inset) ing note of Peter’s research, © PETER LUPSON

the club incorporated 1879 in its new badge.

Bolton Wanderers reacted in a positive way when they learnt of Peter’s research into their founder, the Rev Joseph Wright. Simon Marland, the club’s football secretary, explains: ‘Peter discovered our founder’s grave. I went to see it with him. It was in a terrible state. So we decided as a club that we should do something about it.’

The club restored the grave, and added the words ‘Founder of Bolton Wanderers Football Club’ to its inscription.

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imon says that, although the club knew the general story of how it was founded when Wright teamed up with Thomas Ogden, the headmaster of Christ Church Boys’ School, Peter’s research put ‘the icing on the cake’. It showed how

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Above: the Rev Tiverton Preedy (seated right) with the Barnsley team he founded

‘H

e was so well loved,’ says David, ‘that on the day of his funeral they closed the market in the area around his church – nothing was sold, as a mark of respect for him. A huge crowd Barnsley club historian David Wood

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Wright ‘was not just interested in forming a football team but was concerned about the pastoral care of young guys – trying to keep them off the streets and give them something to do’.

Barnsley FC historian David Wood recognises the same kind of attitude in his club’s founder, the Rev Tiverton Preedy. ‘His doctrine was that sport can improve a person,’ says David. ‘No matter how much a person is in the gutter, being in a sports club gives them a goal. His attitude was that you could beat booze, poverty and crime by having a social club where everyone would rally round.’

David speaks fondly of the ‘decisive and hands-on’ Preedy.

‘When he came to Barnsley he was a rugby player, and he played for the town’s rugby team. Barnsley was a rugby stronghold; football wasn’t the game. But when the rugby club played a game on Good Friday he decided to form a football team out of St Peter’s Church.

His statement was: “We shall build an association team the rugbyites will not crush.”’

Although David feels that he ‘has always known about’ the club’s legendary founder, he learnt new information from Peter about Preedy’s life after he left Barnsley to work in deprived areas of North London, hosting boxing and wrestling in the crypt of his mission hall.

When the rugby club played on Good Friday, the Rev Tiverton Preedy decided to form a football team

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turned up for the funeral.’

Fans of individual clubs have been fascinated by Peter’s research, but Kevin Moore, the director of the National Football Museum, suggests that football as a whole is the winner.

He remembers reading Thank God for Football!: ‘I thought it was an amazing story of a forgotten, hidden history of football. There are some astonishing stories – such as that of the vicar’s daughter who founds Manchester City, which is now the wealthiest club in the world.

‘Those stories of courageous Victorian men and women who had a social mission have a great resonance today. I think the game has forgotten its roots, and that is why Peter’s books are such a timely reminder.’

Kevin says that the church background of many clubs has been overlooked. ‘Academics have largely ignored what Peter has now revealed. Football’s church roots have been forgotten. Of course, club historians are very knowledgeable. But sometimes in football history the church background of clubs has been just a throwaway line.

Peter has given it a context so we can understand why these people formed clubs.’

Kevin has set a goal of improving people’s understanding of how the Church helped to get football up and running.

When it opens in its new Manchester home, the National Football Museum will tell the story. ‘And,’ adds Kevin, ‘we feel this side of the story is so

It’s a hidden history of football

Ron Clayton and Kevin Moore PHILIP HALCROW

important that it deserves a temporary exhibition in its own right. We want to take that exhibition – called Thank God for Football! – on the road to cities and towns whose clubs were formed by church people.’

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he Church’s creative role in founding some of today’s big football clubs may be history, but Christianity still teams up with the game.

Many professional clubs have a chaplain. And at the game’s grassroots are people such as Ron Clayton, the chairman of the Merseyside Christian Football League.

Every team in the

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The senders of the first two entries drawn will receive a copy of the book. The Editor’s decision is final.

league is connected to a church.

And Ron’s view of football overlaps with that of the Victorian founders of clubs. He advocates the positive effect of sport.

He remembers: ‘I received a letter from a manager about a lad who played in one of our teams. Previously the lad had forever been in trouble and at odds with his parents. He smoked and drank, and his school work was non-existent.

But after joining a team with a Christian vein running through it, his whole attitude changed.

He stopped the drinking and the smoking, and the school began sending out good reports.

‘I thought: “If we have played just a small part in his making a change, how marvellous is that!”’

Further up the so-called ‘football pyramid’, Simon Marland at Bolton believes that his club is ‘carrying on what was started by the Rev Joseph Wright all those years ago, albeit in a different guise. We have a community trust that does a lot of work behind the scenes. Our club runs projects to help get children who may get tied up with alcohol and drugs back on the straight and narrow. We visits schools and run courses so that kids can play football rather than just stand round on a corner.’

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eter has highlighted the importance of figures such as Wright, Preedy, Chambers and Pitt again in his new book. He says: ‘When I wrote the original book there was no room for pictures. But I felt such a deep affinity with the people I was writing about that I wanted readers to see what they looked like. So I made it my purpose to try to locate a picture of every founder and every church where the clubs were established.

‘I managed to find pictures of every founder except Bolton Wanderers’, although I did find a sample of his handwriting.

‘I also wanted readers to see how clubs were responding to my discoveries.’

Peter summarises his own reaction to the way clubs have responded to his research.

‘By restoring graves and publicly talking about their gratitude to their founders, they have acknowledged the debt that they owe to those very caring people who did what they did purely out of compassion for the underprivileged in their communities. Those founders had no idea of fame or fortune; they acted purely out of love.’

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QUICK QUIZ 1. The leaf of which tree is the national emblem of Canada?

2. Who played Charles in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral?

3. Which sport makes use of a balance beam?

4. Which instrument measures RPM (revs per minute) in a car?

5. Which song has been a UK No 1 hit for both Billy Ocean and Boyzone?

6. What kind of creature is a pismire?

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QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Absolve. 5 Tarry. 7 Kibbutz. 8 Audit.

10 Tail. 11 Imperial. 13 Hee-haw. 14 Status.

17 Newspeak. 19 Dana. 21 Rivet. 22 Incites.

23 Fired. 24 Mistral.

DOWN: 2 Sublime. 3 Loud. 4 Eczema. 5 Travesty.

6 Radii. 7 Kitchener. 9 Talismans. 12 Carpeted.

15 Traitor.16 Radium. 18 Waver. 20 Aces.

QUICK QUIZ 1 The maple. 2 Hugh Grant. 3 Gymnastics.

4 A tachometer. 5 ‘When the Going Gets Tough’.

6 An Ant. HONEYCOMB 1 Fodder. 2 Number. 3 Babble. 4 Partly.

5 Sunday. 6 London.

INNER LIFE LATER this year BBC One is planning to air a new period drama called Young James. The drama will follow the adventures of a young James Herriot who is training to become a vet. The show is a prequel to the popular All Creatures Great and Small show, which featured the veterinary practice James went on to run.

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the behind the ANDREW STONE looks at the biblical inspiration behind some popular hymns

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The original drama ran for 12 years from 1978 and took its title from the second line of Cecil Frances Alexander’s hymn ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful’.

In the late 1980s, I had a job on a radio station, and I ended up working

with one of the actors from All Creatures Great and Small. He gave a number of promotional radio interviews about the upcoming episodes.

During the interviews he said how much he had liked working on the series and that he hoped the viewers would enjoy it. However, between interviews he told me what he really thought –

All things bright and beautiful

that the scripts were weak and he didn’t think the show would last much longer.

Although it did turn out to be the last series, I was shocked at how much the public ‘message’ differed from reality as he saw it.

However, the message of the hymn from which the show got its title has been held as truth by millions of people throughout the centuries.

Originally published as a ‘hymn for little children’ in 1848, the words of ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful’ remind us that God created this world and the universe beyond it. The final verse also tells us that God created each one of us.

That’s a truth the Bible confirms. The writer of one of the Psalms said: ‘You created every part of me; you put me together in my mother’s womb’ (Psalm 139:13 Good News Bible).

We have all been created

by God, and he is interested in his creation. He wants to be in our lives. More than that, as the one who made us, God knows how we can live the very best life possible. He created us to find purpose and fulfilment.

It doesn’t matter how distant we may have been from God in the past. If we admit our mistakes, God can show us how to live a better life. It is a life that will lead to an eternity with him in Heaven and a discovery that God has made all things well – including you and me.

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that Jesus had been crucified. Suddenly Jesus walked alongside them and talked with them. He had been raised from death, and his presence gave a new direction to their thinking: ‘They said to each other, “When he talked with us along the road … didn’t it warm our hearts?”’ (Luke 24:32 Contemporary English Version).

Jesus can do the same for us. Life may be difficult, but we need never travel through it alone. When we put our trust in him, he will always be with us to comfort us – and help us reach the right destination.

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Each day six million people rely on London buses for transport. But they are also recognised around the world.

Even from the distance of my Lancashire home, I know that people get passionate about London buses. When the classic Routemasters were withdrawn from normal service, many Londoners were sorry to see them go. They loved their open platform, which allowed passengers to hop on or off at will. They also appreciated that a conductor was on board to give reassurance and

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SOME time ago I joined the growing number of people to own a free bus pass. I used it for the very first time on a visit to London. It was also the first occasion that I had travelled on a London red bus.

PAST MASTER: Routemaster buses had a conductor on board

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Vegetarian paella

Recipes reprinted, with kind permission, from the Vegetarian Society website vegsoc.org

Ingredients: 4–5tbsp sunflower oil 3 onions, chopped 4 cloves garlic, crushed 2 red peppers, chopped 450g button mushrooms 225g frozen peas 350g green beans, trimmed and cut into small pieces 2 x 450g cans chopped tomatoes 900g long grain white rice 2tsp paprika 1tsp saffron 1.8l vegetable stock, boiled Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste 225g green olives, chopped 175g toasted cashew nuts Handful of fresh parsley, chopped

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Raspberry truffle torte

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Method: Preheat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas Mark 5. Heat the oil in a large frying pan or wok and fry the Ingredients: 225g raspberries 200g plain chocolate 175g creamed coconut 100g unsalted butter 2tbsp crème de cassis 200g vegetarian rustic-style biscuits, crushed For the coulis 225g raspberries Icing sugar, to taste 2tbsp crème de cassis Sprigs of mint, to decorate Method: Lightly oil a 11⁄2 lb loaf tin with oil and line the base and sides with baking parchment.

Reserve a few raspberries for decoration and roughly chop the rest. Set aside.

Melt the chocolate, coconut and butter together over a gentle heat. Stir the crème de cassis, raspberries and crushed

for 3 minutes.

Transfer the mixture to a large casserole dish. Add the peas, green beans, chopped tomatoes, rice and paprika. Mix the saffron with the onions and garlic stock and pour into over a medium heat the casserole dish, until the onion starts then simmer for to colour. about 5 minutes.

Add the peppers and Cover the casserole mushrooms and fry dish and place in the oven. Bake for 30–40 biscuits into the melted minutes until mixture and stir well. the rice is Pour the mixture into the tender and prepared tin and lightly press the liquid down. Cover and chill for absorbed.

3 hours or quick-freeze for (Alternatively, 1–2 hours. pour the To make the coulis, purée the ingredients raspberries in a food into a large processor. Add the icing pan and sugar to taste. Add the cook on the crème de cassis and purée hob.) again. Strain the sauce Season to through a nylon sieve to taste, then remove all the pips. Taste, leave to then add more sugar if stand for necessary. Chill the coulis about 5 until required. minutes. Stir Turn out the torte and cut into in the olives thin slices. Cut each slice in and serve half diagonally and arrange sprinkled with one half overlapping the with the other on individual serving cashew nuts plates. Decorate with the and fresh reserved raspberries, coulis parsley. and mint sprigs before serving.

Serves 12 Serves 6–8

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So, what’s the problem? asks RENÉE DAVIS Universal

KNOW something that could hurt your best friend? Would you rather they heard it from you first? They are the problems confronting Ronny in The Dilemma, which hit cinemas yesterday (Friday 21 January).

Since college, best mates and business partners Ronny (Vince Vaughn) and Nick (Kevin James) have stuck together through thick and thin. Their engine design company is on the verge of big success and life is looking good.

Ronny has a longstanding girlfriend, Beth (Jennifer Connelly), and wants the kind of marriage with her that he sees Nick enjoying with his wife Geneva (Winona Ryder).

Then Ronny sees Geneva with another man, and his world turns upside down. He suddenly revises his idea of the truth about Nick’s marriage. But if he tells his friend about it, the news could destroy him.

Vince Vaughn suggests that his character was facing not so much a dilemma as a full-scale crisis. He says: ‘For me, it wasn’t about whether I should tell him or not. It was about watching CHAIR LEAVERS: Nick and Ronny enjoy an ice hockey game someone burdened with the knowledge of what’s going on and the struggle to price of friendship. He figure out how and when to only the person who needs to hear it, but also the person knew he had to tell people tell him.’ the truth – that they needed Friendships are not who has to tell it. Friendship to accept God’s forgiveness always easy. There are times comes with a price.

There Jesus paid the ultimate for what they had done when the truth will hurt not are times wrong and to live in the right way. the truth Speaking out made him YOUR LOCAL SALVATION ARMY CENTRE enemies.

When they hurts the brought things to a crisis by putting him to death, even person his friends ran away.

Jesus had told his folwho has lowers: ‘The greatest way to show love for friends is to tell it

to die for them. And you are my friends, if you obey me’ (John 15:13, 14 Contemporary English Version).

Jesus did not let the pain he suffered put an end to his love for his friends or enemies – or for us. He sacrificed his life to give us eternal life.

Jesus invites us to discover the truth about God – and that’s what his friendship is for.

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