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FIGHTING FOR HEARTS AND SOULS

VALUED: Nikica Jelavic’s goals helped Everton after he signed fir the club last January

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W O D N I G W PPIN O H S THE clock is ticking for football clubs to sign someone to change their destiny. The transfer window is about to close close.

As January began, clubs across Britain sought to make their new year happier by buying and selling players.

Managers have been trying to identify areas of their team that need to be strengthened. Supporters have been speculating on who might arrive at their club. The sports pages are full of stories about whether players are coming, going, Turn to page 3

WILL JANUARY MOVES PAY OFF? asks PHILIP HALCROW

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STRAPLINE HERE FOR HEADING

A grand day out for film idea winner A STORY about a police lieutenant in America who wants to change his ways has won a competition for film ideas based on the Bible.

Simon Cookson’s idea for a film called The Light won The Pitch, an annual competition run by Bible Society.

The co-creator of Wallace and Gromit, Nick Park, helped to judge the prize and presented Simon with the award at Pinewood Studios.

Simon, 34, from Manchester,

will also have be given production support and £25,000 to have his film made and he will have the opportunity to travel to Hollywood to meet X Men producer Ralph Winter and other industry professionals.

Simon’s film about the police lieutenant and his struggles to convince everyone he is a changed man is set in America in the 1950s but is based on the Bible story of the conversion of Paul on the road to Damascus.

EMERGENCY SERVICES SERVED DRINKS

Support at helicopter crash scene SALVATION Army mobile canteens served hot drinks

Nick Park and Simon Cookson

STORES HELP AFTER BUSHFIRES SALVOS Stores – the brand name for Salvation Army charity shops in Australia and Tasmania – has been providing items free of charge to people who are in need as a result of the bushfires in the country.

The Salvation Army also provided meals and refreshments to people affected by the fires, including those who were disembarking ferries in Hobart having fled from the fire-hit town of Nubeena.

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car, and the London Ambulance Service took six people to hospital and treated seven at the scene.

Major Robert Elliott of The Salvation Army said the vehicles had been ‘fairly busy’ in giving out refreshments, and added: ‘If we can assist in any way, then that’s what we’re here for.’

MP MAKES COMMITMENT

Youth pledge DEPUTY Leader of the Liberal Democrats Simon Hughes has said he would seek cross-party action on tackling youth violence.

Speaking at a conference in London jointly organised by Christian youth charity XLP and the Centre for Social Justice, the MP said he hoped to work with Conservative and Labour politicians to ‘persuade our three parties to make longer-term commitments to young people’ that would last after the next general election.

XLP says that even at a time of cuts to public spending, the Government should invest in youth work.

Patrick Regan, chief executive of XLP, says: It costs between £69,000 and £193,000 to lock up a young person in an institution for a year, but the cost of local youth work that helps young people make wise lifestyle choices and stay out of gang culture costs a fraction of that sum.’

SOPHIE DOCKER

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FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY IN HUNGARY

GLASGOW Cathedral is to be the venue for a screening of the classic silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc at the Glasgow Festival next month.

and sandwiches to emergency services workers at the scene of a helicopter crash in London.

Firefighters, police and the ambulance service were quickly on the scene when the aircraft hit a crane and crashed to the ground in Vauxhall. Two people died at the scene.

Fire crews rescued a man from a burning

YOUR prayers are requested for Joan, who has breast cancer.

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’.

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From page 1 or staying put.

The deadline for deals is Monday (31 January).

The consensus is that January is a difficult time to buy. Clubs are under pressure to win a title, avoid relegation, gain promotion or qualify for Europe, so they may have to pay a high price to get the h player l who h will ill – they h believe b li – make a difference.

Some January transfers have not worked out well for players or the clubs that bought them. But others have had a positive impact.

You can find a Spurs fan who will tell you that Wilson Palacios, after his move from Wigan in 2009, helped the Lilywhites recover from a disastrous start to finish eighth. An Evertonian might point to the club’s rise after they bought goalscorer Nikica Jelavic last year.

Kris Boyd moved to Rangers in January 2006 and went on to score more than 100 goals for the club. Last January, Tony Watt joined Celtic and became a hero when he scored in the club’s Champions League victory over Barcelona this season.

Whether big-money or bargain, the right move can change a player’s career (and it may even be better for some players to move to a lower club where they can prove themselves on the pitch

The right move can change a career and alter a club’s destiny

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rather than warm the bench). It can alter a club’s destiny. It can cause tens of thousands of supporters untold joy.

Off-the-pitch transfer stories are about players making the right move.

But they are also about the times when players’ heads aren’t in the right place, when their commitment is questioned, when their loyalty is lacking.

At the end of the day, it’s not a surprise that transfers can turn into off-the-field dramas. The stories highlight human success and failure, strengths and weakWilson Palacios nesses. (right) became part In every field of life, we benof a Spurs team that efit if we make the right moves climbed the table and show the right qualities – patience, forgiveness, kindness.

Sometimes, though, our attitude can be all wrong. We show the darker side of purselves. We are selfish. We are prejudiced. We allow our heads to be turned.

But our failures need not be the last word on our lives. Our destiny can be changed. Early Christian and sports watcher Paul gave his analysis of the impact God had on people who decided to out their trust in him.

‘He has rescued us from the power of darkness,’ he wrote, ‘and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption’ (Colossians 1: 13, 14 New Revised Standard Version).

If we accept the offer of the love that God revealed through his Son, Jesus, we can find forgiveness for our past failures and support in our present efforts to fulfil our potential. Is it time to make a move?

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OWNED a thriving disco-cum-nightclub on the outskirts of Budapest.

There were strippers and bouncers. For me, the most important thing in life was to earn a lot of money. My wife, Marika, earned money by palm-reading. She was really good at it, so we didn’t have any financial problems. Life looked great but I was not happy.

I was so busy earning money that I had no time left for my wife and our two daughters. It came to the point where I started hitting my wife. Then, one day, a cousin invited me to church.

I was brought up in a Gypsy family. We didn’t go to church much and I didn’t know much about the Bible.

When I was 14 years old, my father died. My mother tried to look after us kids as best she could.

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nightclub owner to Salvation Army officer

Two years later, I left home and *\Ę]Ę OHDGV met Marika. We fell in love and when D VHUYLFH LQ I was 18, we got married. I worked for a while as a plumber’s assistant. Our 1\tUDFViG first daughter was born when I was 19.

I then had to do military service for a year. Our second daughter was born the next year. At the time, I was working with my father-in-law, who was the manager of a cemetery. I helped him with maintenance, gravedigging and cleaning the tombstones. I had a good salary for a man of 22.

I wanted to set up my own business, so I started a food stall. When the business grew, I sold it and bought the nightclub. It was a great success. It was only later I realised that the more money we earned, the more problems we had in our family life.

It was a mess. I hit my wife, and she wanted to divorce me. I didn’t want to lose her or my daughters, but I didn’t know how to solve the problems.

Then my cousin asked me along to church. Marika agreed to go with me. I was surprised by the friendly way that people greeted us. They also wished me

God’s blessing. I thought: ‘How can they be so friendly, when they don’t even know me?’ The moment the singing started I knew: this is what I’m looking for.

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arika and I looked for a church to go to regularly. We started going to a Reformed Church. The pastor gave us a warm welcome and took time to explain the gospel to us. We both realised that we were living a bad life and that we were involved in the occult.

The pastor read a passage from the Gospels with us and emphasised the words of Jesus to the woman caught in the act of adultery: ‘Neither do I condemn you. Go now and leave your life of sin.’ The pastor then

The more money we earned, the more problems we had in our family life

prayed with us, asking God to take our chains away. In that moment, my wife and I received forgiveness, and a new life started.

God opened my eyes to all the bad things I had done, and to the truth which gave me great joy. I knew God had forgiven me.

Later, I sensed God asking me to be a minister and to do something for Roma people. I wasn’t educated enough, so I went back to high school when I was 30. During my last year there, God led me to The Salvation Army.

I was at a prayer meeting about prison work when I got talking to a Salvation Army officer.

I asked him about theological teaching programmes, and he told me something about a training college in Switzerland. My family and I started worshipping at The Salvation Army.

One Sunday, the service was led by a minister who read from the Book of Isaiah: ‘Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”’

My wife and I looked at each other and we both said: ‘Here am I. Send me!’

Just six years after going to that first church service with my cousin, Marika and I started training to become Salvation Army officers. We were commissioned in 2005.

Today, we are the Salvation Army church ministers in Debrecen, the second largest city in Hungary. As well as holding Sunday services, every day the centre runs a kitchen that serves 150 meals to needy people. We also have many opportunities to give practical and spiritual support to the surrounding Roma communities.

God guided us to the place where we are now and, given what we’ve come through and where we’ve come from, I know he will continue to guide us for the rest of our lives.

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WHEN, in 2006, British Airways sent one of its check-in staff home for displaying a cross at work, Nadia Eweida took legal action over her employer’s action. The Supreme Court later ruled that BA had not discriminated against Ms Eweida on account of her Christian faith, and the story gained national notoriety.

When, in 2010, an NHS Trust moved nurse Shirley Chaplin to a desk job after she refused to remove the crucifix that she had worn with her uniform for some 30 years, there were murmurings that Christians in the UK were being persecuted.

Although Ms Eweida returned to work after BA changed its policy on the display of religious symbols, she and Ms Chaplin took their case to Strasbourg.

They maintained that their right to ‘manifest’ their faith was not protected under British law.

Last week, the European Court of Human Rights published its judgment: ‘Freedom of religion under Article Nine of the Convention includes freedom to manifest one’s religious belief, including in the workplace. However, where an individual’s religious observance impinges on the rights of others, some restrictions can be made.’

Ms Chaplin’s right to manifest her beliefs by wearing a cross, the court ruled, was outweighed by her employer’s health-and-safety concerns.

However, ‘the domestic authorities had … failed sufficiently to protect Ms Eweida’s right to manifest her religion.’

In other words, Ms Eweida was discriminated against for expressing her Christianity in the workplace.

While some people may struggle to make sense of the rulings, a number of things are clear. Some Christians in the UK are discriminated against, but – as tomorrow’s Holocaust Memorial Day reminds us – persecution is an extremity not experienced by Christians in Britain.

Christians cannot compartmentalise their lives into business and pleasure, public and private, belief and behaviour.

Indeed, those who try to do so are branded as hypocrites.

Christians follow the one who insisted on laying down his life for others. And there are no human rights in doing that.

Howard Goodall

Howard traces roots of harmonious music BBC TWO explores the history of making music in Howard Goodall’s Story of Music tonight (Saturday 26 January 9.30 pm).

In this first of six episodes, the presenter charts the development of the Gregorian chant, highlighting that the style started with a handful of monks singing the same tune in unison, without rhythm and harmony. Over several centuries, medieval musicians put together the basics of what is now known as harmony.

ACTRESS Sheila Hancock talks about her faith as a Quaker with presenter Clare Balding on Radio 2’s Good Morning Sunday tomorrow (27 January 7 am).

Clare is also joined by faith guest, Sister Gemma Simmons of Heythrop College, University of London.

Faithful friend A DOG has turned up every day at the church where his owner’s funeral was held several months ago, reported the Daily Mirror.

According to the paper, Maria Margherita Lochi always had German Shepherd Tommy ‘at her heels as she walked to Mass. Now when Tommy hears the church bells ring in Son Donaci, Italy, he turns up at the side of the altar.’

Gran gets down with the kids AN 87-year old Grandma has made headlines for spending her Saturday nights volunteering as a Street Pastor in Lancashire, reported the Daily Express.

The paper said that in her role, Mary Pickles and a team from her church patrol the streets between 11 pm and 3 am, helping people remain safe as they travel between pubs and clubs. Mary – who has been volunteering for four years – keeps flip-flops in her backpack for women who can’t walk home in their high heels and phones taxis for people who are too drunk to make the phone call themselves.

‘I love every minute of my role and we are well received on the streets by all the pub and club-goers,’ she said. ‘My five grandchildren said it was too dangerous to be on the streets at that time of night, but I have never been frightened.’

Mary recalled only ‘a couple of unpleasant arguments’ and told the paper how she usually handles difficult people: ‘I will go over and hand out some chocolate and jelly babies and start chatting to them and by the time they leave they’ve calmed down.’

The Street Pastor initiative started in London and today it works in more than 20 other UK locations.

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Prepare for winter driving

Winter driving requires skill

KEEPING your vehicle well maintained is important all year round but even more in winter. For example, in wet conditions worn tyres won’t hold the road as well as those with a deep tread.

The following tips will help to ensure your vehicle is ready for wintry weather: O Check your vehicle’s battery once a week and charge it if required. This is particularly important if your battery is more

than three years old. The RAC attends more call-outs relating to batteries than any other problem.

O Test your exterior lights.

O Ensure that the vehicle’s coolant level rests between the minimum and maximum markers.

It is also important that there is sufficient anti-freeze in the coolant.

O Assess your tyres for any damage, such as splits and bulges.

Make sure you check the tyre pressure and amend accordingly.

O Remember to fill up your screenwash, ensuring that its concentration is suitable WHEN driving in the snow, it is important to accelerate for cold conditions. When gently, use low revs and change up to a higher gear as soon purchasing screenwash, as possible. If you can, move off in second gear to reduce look for a product that wheelspin. provides protection for Look ahead at the road to see if it has been gritted. If it temperatures down to hasn’t, be wary of driving in the tracks of other road users, as -35C. compressed snow is likely to be icier than fresh snow.

O Check your wiper If you start to skid, steer into it. Do not remove your hands blades and replace if from the steering wheel or stamp your foot on the brakes. necessary. When wiper Remember to leave plenty of space between you and the blades become frozen to vehicle in front. glass they can be damaged Finally, keep your speed down and allow plenty of time for easily. manoeuvring and stopping.

Before embarking on a O Winter-driving advice provided by the RAC. For more journey in wintry weather, information visit rac.co.uk be sure to pack the

Snow way to go

following items in your vehicle: Ice scraper and de-icer Torch and spare batteries Warm clothes and blankets Boots First-aid kit Jump-start cables Food and a hot drink in a

vacuum flask Shovel Reflective warning sign Road map Sunglasses (the glare from snow can be dazzling) Mobile phone and charger

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Interview BOB SLADE, Professor of Inorganic and Material Chemistry at the University of Surrey, talks to Nigel Bovey about being the salt of the earth

<C<D<EK Professor Slade, why did you become CHEMIST: Professor Bob Slade at his university desk a scientist?

I was intrigued by science from Where do the chemical elements about the age of 12. I started off being come from? attracted to physics but then changed The currently accepted model is to chemistry. To me, science is a way that the elements as we know them of studying, modelling and using the are produced by nuclear reactions physical world around us. I don’t in stars. This is paralleled by one of talk in terms of scientific truth but of the potential future technologies for ‘working models’, as new findings are production of electricity known as happening all the time. nuclear fusion, where in a plasma we attempt to cause low mass nuclei to You are Professor of Inorganic and react to give higher mass nuclei; that Material Chemistry. What does that reaction produces energy. mean?

Inorganic chemistry is the chemistry What area of research do you work and transformation of materials – that in? is atoms, molecules and solids – which I’m involved in developing new are not based on carbon. An example of technologies for generating and storing an inorganic element would be sodium energy – devices chloride – common salt. which can produce electricity from Where does the ‘material’ aspect chemicals and come into this? devices which can ‘Material’ refers to continuous store such energy. condensed matter – for example, The big challenge a ceramic vase or a lump of wood. for renewable energy Material chemistry includes the is its storage. Solar design, assembly and application of energy is great during materials. Much of my research could the daytime, but what be described as bordering on chemical about at night? What engineering.

The big challenge for renewable energy is its storage

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happens to the National Grid if the wind doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t blow?

The University of Surrey is part of a national project to develop advanced supercapacitor batteries and redox flow batteries.

These are renewable-associated technologies. Supercapacitors, for example, can be used in regenerative braking. At the moment, when a vehicle brakes most of the waste energy goes straight into heat. But in a hybrid car, brakes could generate electricity, which could be stored in a supercapacitor to be released when the car is going uphill, thus reducing petrol usage.

Have you invented anything?

Most fuel cells, which are devices that produce electricity from a chemical fuel and air, are separated by acid membranes. One side-effect of acid systems is poisoning of the catalyst, which causes the electrode to stop working. At Surrey University, we have developed the use of alkaline membranes.

The availability of rare metals is possibly more problematic than the availability of fossil fuels

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Are you on a quest to solve the global energy crisis?

The big challenge is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. No single technology is the magic bullet. We are out to make a contribution to this through enabling the use of renewable energy.

Are cars that run on hydrogen fuel cells, as developed in the States, part of that contribution?

The current fuel cells require a lot of platinum. The availability of rare metals such as platinum is possibly more problematic than the availability of fossil fuels.

So these devices certainly work and are fine for niche applications. But for mass production, there is a question of sustainability.

In response to the need for new forms of energy, one of the emerging technologies is biofuels, where crops are harvested for conversion into motor fuel. With millions of hungry mouths in the world, how content are you with biofuels?

I am not happy with the food-versus-fuel approach, where corn which would otherwise have gone to food production is used to provide fuel. However, I learnt about another kind of biofuel on a visit to the Indian Institute of Technology. It produces biological fuels from waste associated with the production of rice.

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From page 9 Fuel from waste is a very commendable idea.

Are there ethical implications to your science?

The ethics tend to come once the science of your discovery is applied. For example, the technology that helps the environment through solar panels on a house roof can also be used in pilotless aircraft that bomb people in Afghanistan.

Studying science doesn’t shrink God; it expands my vision of him

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How do you feel about the idea that some of your work might end up in a weapon?

I don’t see my work as having an ethical dimension, because it does not directly involve people or animals. To my knowledge, I haven’t taken money for defence-related research. I have, nonetheless, had money from government defence establishments for work on power supplies, which would be very difficult to put into weapons.

As a Christian, I see it as a priority to explore, discover and summarise what I have found and to make scientific advances. Since graduation, I have always worked on energy-related systems. In the past decade, most of the research we have done here has been on fuel cells or energystorage devices.

Professor Slade at work in the lab

When did you become a Christian?

I became a Christian at about the age of nine in a Christian school in Twickenham. We had a Scripture lesson every day and had a Christian Union. It was conservatively run, taking the Bible and its message at face value. One day, I was asked whether this was for me and was told that, if it was, I should pray a particular prayer. I did so and from then on it became natural to read the Bible.

Student days can be times when childhood views are challenged. How did you find being a Christian and a scientist during your time at university?

There’s a statistic that says there are more Christians per scientist head than Christians per head of the general population. That seems to be so in my

experience. If you see science as a method of studying creation, then being a Christian scientist is not a challenge.

Studying science doesn’t shrink God; it expands my vision of him.

As a child, you were encouraged to take the Bible at face value. Today, what convinces you that Jesus is who he says he is – that he is human and divine?

I am steeped in what Anglicans call the three-legged stool approach to faith – the Bible, tradition and reason. I don’t see any particular arguments in reason that would persuade me any other way than I believe.

I also believe there is a fourth element – experiential. Personal experience of living a Christian faith of prayer, Bible study and knowing the action of the Holy Spirit convinces me of the truth of Jesus.

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What does your faith give you?

It gives me a focus for life. Christianity has made me what I am.

How does your science inform your faith?

It informs my faith to the extent that I don’t find anything contradictory between the two.

One of the reasons why is that I have identified that the Bible is not a scientific textbook. I believe the religious message of the Bible is true.

Some of the Bible is described as poetic. I would use the term ‘useful explanation as to why the world is how it is’. Genesis, for instance, is about the world being broken and about the need for individuals to turn to God rather than pursue personal inclinations. It also mentions the Devil, which is not a popular topic these days.

Would you describe some parts of Genesis, particularly the creation accounts, as allegorical?

I don’t think it is allegorical, because I don’t think everything in it necessarily has a particular meaning. It is more like a parable. In the light of current science, I don’t have a problem with the sequence in Genesis 1.

The Bible or science? Discuss.

When I was an undergraduate, I read Arthur Peacocke’s Science and the Christian Experiment, in which he draws the parallels between the way theology seeks to model the interaction of man and God and the way in which science seeks to model the physical world. The book confirmed for me that faith and science are not alternatives. They are complementary.

Is it a case of science telling us how the world came about and faith telling us why?

Pontius Pilate asked Jesus: ‘What is truth?’ I think ‘truth’ has a different meaning in different contexts. Religious truth is a very different thing from the truth of a mathematical equation.

I query whether an equation in modelling a system can ever be shown to be ‘true’, whereas people such as Richard Dawkins would argue that you can never tell anything is truth – but then they don’t believe in the divine revelation of truth.

Richard Dawkins promotes the idea that faith is irrational. On one of his TV programmes, Professor Brian Cox states that God did not create the world, science did. Why are such ideas wrong?

Science works on a cyclical pattern.

You start with an experiment. The experiment suggests certain things and you then make a statement such as ‘let’s suppose’. You then construct a model, which is described mathematically, that produces a theory which can make

Humans have more in common with God than with the rest of creation predications. Science, therefore, is not free of supposition. The starting postulations are often intuitively obvious but the whole of science is based on such models.

If science is a set of models, then science certainly did not create the Universe.

Is there a rationality underpinning Christianity?

There is a rationality based largely on personal experience that is particularly associated with the Pentecostal and charismatic ends of the Christian spectrum. There is a consistency between reality as experienced by Christians and what is in the Bible.

New atheism defines what is observable and what is not. It does not accept things that are unobservable. You exclude a great deal if you restrict yourself only to systems that are observable. By excluding the religious and spiritual aspects of life, new atheism offers a very closed view of the Universe.

Science, particularly the theory of evolution, is often used by atheists to argue that God does not exist. Why is that unsatisfactory?

Equally, some Christian fundamentalists reject science as not agreeing with the ‘literal’ description in the Bible. There are also Christians who are very happy with evolution as a way of seeing how God has achieved something without pointing his finger every time he wanted to create something. Christians see the Universe as evidence of God’s handiwork.

Genesis tells us that we are made in the image of God. What do you understand by that statement?

That we have more in common with God than with the rest of creation.

Humans have 98 per cent of their DNA in common with mice. Do we share more than 98 per cent with our Creator?

A human being is more than the sum of their chemicals. I believe that humankind is unique in being able to interact with its Creator. Humans also have an existence without those chemicals.

We share with God the ability to relate to each other and the ability to take control. Genesis also records God’s instruction for humankind to care for the world, which is a responsibility we share with our Creator.

What is your image of God? God is someone who intervenes in people’s lives. I have experience of answered and unanswered prayer. I believe God works miracles, including healing in response to prayer.

Is modern medicine replacing the miraculous?

It is removing the perception of need for the miraculous. But it doesn’t mean the miraculous can’t and doesn’t occur.

In the light of today’s scientific knowledge, do the biblical miracles have non-miraculous explanations?

Some people argue that is the case, but there is one event that is the core of Christianity – the resurrection of Jesus.

No other explanation, other than the miraculous, adequately accounts for it.

Unless you change the story – that things weren’t as the Bible describes – then science cannot explain the Resurrection. It was a miracle.

O The views expressed by Professor Slade are personal and should not be taken to represent those of the University of Surrey

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WORDSEARCH Look up, down, forwards, backwards and diagonally on the grid to find these characters from the book ‘Pride and Prejudice’ Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9 Solution on page 15

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QUIC CK CR ROSSW WORD ACROSS 1. Pastime (5) 4. Kit out (5) 8. Peculiar (3) 9. Goodbye (5) 10. Perfect (5) 11. Seize (3) 12. Small branch (5) 13. Most lengthy (7) 16. Safe (6) 19. Degrade (6) 23. Odd piece (7) 26. Bury (5) 28. Manipulate (3) 29. Flinch (5) 30. Awaken (5) 31. Ocean (3) 32. Accumulate (5) 33. Automobile (5)

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HON NEYC COMB B Each solution starts on the coloured cell and reads clockwise round the number

DOWN 2. Prickly shrub (5) 3. Not as old (7) 4. Eatable (6) 5. Coalition (5) 6. Part (5) 7. Apportion (5) 9. Donkeys (5) 14. Adhesive (3) 15. Health resort (3) 17. Before (3) 18. Vase (3) 20. Pithy saying (7) 21. Tend (5) 22. Tension (6) 23. Sculled (5) 24. Craziness (5) 25. Stadium (5) 27. Have faith in (5)

1. Male relative of a monarch 2. Wallet for storing loose papers 3. A line separating two countries 4. A room where an artist works 5. Be present at 6. Drawing to show something before it is built

QUICK QUIZ 1. Which of the Mr Men characters is shaped as a pink hemisphere?

2. What did Dr John S. Pemberton invent in 1886?

3. Globe and Jerusalem are varieties of which vegetable?

4. Which organ of the body produces insulin?

5. Who wrote the radio play Under Milk Wood?

6. Which animated film includes the song ‘Circle of Life’?

QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Hobby. 4 Equip. 8 Odd. 9 Adieu.

10 Ideal. 11 Nab. 12 Sprig. 13 Longest. 16 Secure.

19 Demean. 23 Remnant. 26 Inter. 28 Rig. 29 Wince. 30 Rouse. 31 Sea. 32 Amass. 33 Motor.

DOWN: 2 Briar. 3 Younger. 4 Edible. 5 Union.

6 Piece. 7 Allot. 9 Asses. 14 Gum. 15 Spa. 17 Ere. 18 Urn. 20 Epigram. 21 Nurse. 22 Stress.

23 Rowed. 24 Mania. 25 Arena. 27 Trust.

QUICK QUIZ 1 Mr Chatterbox. 2 Coca-Cola. 3 Artichoke.

4 The pancreas. 5 Dylan Thomas. 6 The Lion King.

HONEYCOMB 1 Prince. 2 Folder. 3 Border. 4 Studio. 5 Attend.

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Time’s

TIME AND TIME AGAIN In this series, ROSEMARY DAWSON looks at what the Bible has to say about time

up!

WEEK 4 HAVE you made your list of 50 things you want to do before you die?

One survey I read found that swimming with dolphins was the most common such situation – closely followed by skydiving, going on safari, walking the Great Wall of China or climbing Mount Everest. But, in reality, many of us will never be able to achieve these goals, let alone afford them.

When they plan their lives, people include a successful career or international travel in their must-do list. They hope to buy a house and car, get married and have 2.4 children.

Perhaps one day, when they have more time, they will even get around to going to church or reading the Bible. But those good intentions sometimes get swallowed up or totally submerged by work, circumstances and family commitments. As a church poster once read, ‘Make God laugh. Tell him your plans.’

According to the Bible, ‘everything on earth has its own time and its own season …

God makes everything happen at the right time’ (Ecclesiastes 3:1,11 Contemporary English Version). That includes the right time for us to be born, the right time for us to die – and the right time for each individual to come into a personal knowledge of their Creator.

We may say we do not have time for him in our daily living, but God is only ever a prayer away. He always has time to listen to us, whatever our need.

The early Christian Paul wrote to some of the first believers that God had long promised to help people. He added: ‘That time has come. This is the day for you to be saved’ (2 Corinthians 6:2).

That thought is echoed in this verse by Henry Twells attached to a clock in Chester Cathedral: When as a child I laughed and wept, Time crept.

When as a youth I waxed more bold, Time strolled.

When I became a full-grown man, Time ran.

When older still I daily grew, Time flew.

Soon I shall find, in passing on, Time gone.

O Christ! wilt thou have saved me then?

There’s a right time for everything. Let’s not leave it too late to find out what God can do in our lives.

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WHAT’S the nicest thing that anyone has ever done for you? My family have done many lovely things for me over the years, especially on my birthday. But one event, which happened most unexpectedly, stands out in my memory.

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stays in my memory as a very special moment.

I suspect we all have special moments of unexpected goodness.

We hear so much bad news that it would be easy to overlook the good things that happen to us. Life truly is full of good things, if we have the eyes to recognise them.

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It was some years ago, when I was working as a house-mother at a school for teenage boys with special needs. The job was very demanding and challenging, but occasionally there would be a breakthrough, and I would feel were troubled and could easily rewarded for the long hours. get upset if a stranger bumped mped It was my last weekend on into them. However, I’d been een duty and I was taking a small given a more well-behaved d group of boys into the nearby group because it was my last market town, just for a walk such duty before leaving to and a change of scenery. It was get married. a pleasant walk, down a long While we were out, I country lane, across a bridge decided to buy a large bag g spanning the river and into town. he It may sound a pleasant way to of sweets to share with the boys that evening while spend a working afternoon but we watched TV. I thought such trips were not necessarily it would be a nice way of so, for the boys at the school saying goodbye to them. I was in the e sweet shop queue, ue, when one of the lads said: ‘Please, e, Miss, can I go outt to the market for five minutes?’ By y the rules, I shouldn’t have allowed him, but I felt I knew him well enough nough to let him go.

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What’s cooking?

Lemon and black pepper cod goujons

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

Ingredients: 40g white breadcrumbs Salt and pepper, to taste 1tsp paprika 1 medium egg, beaten 80g plain flour 200g cod fillet, cut into thin strips 5tbsp vegetable oil, for frying 1 lemon, for garnishing

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Method: Mix the breadcrumbs, salt, pepper and paprika in a bowl.

Place the beaten egg in another bowl, along with 70g flour. Mix to form a batter.

Use the remaining flour to dust each piece of cod, then dip the strips in the beaten egg, followed by the breadcrumb mixture.

Heat the vegetable oil in a pan, then fry the cod strips until cooked. Serve with slices of lemon.

Serves 4 SUDOKU SOLUTION

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Coffee and walnut cake Ingredients: 240g butter 230g caster sugar 4 small eggs 245g self-raising flour 3 drops of vanilla essence 100g chopped walnuts 1tbsp water For the filling 310g icing sugar 1½ tbsp coffee granules, dissolved in 1tbsp water 110g butter Method: Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6.

Grease a couple of 20cm cake tins.

Cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl, then mix in the eggs, flour, vanilla essence and walnuts. Pour the cake mixture evenly into the tins and bake for 30–35 minutes. Once cooked, turn out the cakes and leave on a wire rack to cool.

To make the buttercream, mix together the icing sugar, coffee mixture and butter.

Spread the buttercream over both the cakes, then sandwich together before serving.

Serves 6

something ABOUT Darcy

THERE’S IT is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is one of the UK’s favourite love stories. And next Monday (28 January), the book which introduced us to golden couple Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy is 200 years old.

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To mark the bicentenary of the publication of Austen’s novel, the Jane Austen House Museum in Hampshire is holding special events throughout the year.

The Story of Pride and Prejudice exhibition – which opens on Monday – will allow visitors to explore the history of the novel and view a letter written by Jane to her sister, in which she refers to her book as ‘my own darling child’.

They will also be able to see editions of the novel in other languages.

Later in the year, visitors can attend workshops, enabling them to try their own fair hand at writing Austen-style. They can also experience some novel moments by watching actors perform scenes in the museum house and garden.

Back in 2007, a survey conducted by World Book Day revealed that Pride and Prejudice was the book the nation couldn’t live without. But why?

Perhaps people fall in love with Elizabeth for her quick wit, or with Darcy because he is, quite simply, dashing.

Maybe they approve of the 19th-century good manners. It could be that they understand the effects of pride and prejudice in

their own lives.

It can be comforting to read about a character or their situation and recognise a part of ourselves. We realise that we are not alone when we struggle with issues such as love, forgiveness and finding fulfilment.

But fictional characters are only pagedeep. Reading about real people, with their real lives, can be even more helpful to us.

Many people find comfort when they read about Jesus in the Bible. There are chapters where he battles temptation, experiences betrayal and mourns the loss of a friend. But, despite his troubles, he continues to find peace, hope and strength by talking to his Father, God. So can we.

Whatever we are going through, Jesus understands. He has been there. And when we turn to God for help, we too can work through our difficulties.

Is it time to start a brand new chapter with him?