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FIGHTING FOR HEARTS AND SOULS

16 April 2011

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RESCUED CHILEAN MINER

The highs and lows of life trapped underground

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Jesus (Selva Rasalingam) overturns the tables of the money changers in ‘The Story of Jesus’

THE writes PHILIP HALCROW

GOES HE was not a ‘meek, mild, wouldn’t-hurt-a-flea-type guy’.

He possibly started out as a disciple of John the Baptist.

And his resurrection was not an invention.

Bible scholars are putting forward their ideas about Jesus in BBC One’s The Story of Jesus, which begins on Good Friday Turn to page 3

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NEWS

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SCIENTISTS CELEBRATE THE WORK OF ‘BIG BANG’ ORIGINATOR

Astronomer Royal’s address is out of this world

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future in its hands and speaking the day after he tional contribution to could jeopardise life’s received this year’s affirming life’s spiritual immense potential.

Templeton Prize, an annual dimension.

‘This pale blue dot in the award given to a person G For more information visit cosmos we call Earth is a who has made an excep- st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/faraday special place. It may be a unique place.

And, whether we ANTI-POVERTY SCHEME LAUNCHED are interested in astronomy or not, we are all its stewards at a particularly SUPPORTERS of an anti-poverty campaign are planning crucial era.’ to live on no more than £1 a day for five days. People who Lord Rees was

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WITH a message likely to upset fans of scifi and Spielberg, at Cambridge University last week Astronomer Royal Lord Rees pronounced that ‘there is probably no ET’.

Martin Rees, Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, and Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, was speaking at the Georges Lemaître Anniversary Conference organised by the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion.

The gathering of international scientists celebrated the 80th anniversary of the Belgian priest and scientist’s hypothesis of the primeval atom. His ideas later developed into what became known as the big bang theory.

In an overview of subsequent discoveries in outer space, Lord Rees said: ‘Thanks to the Kepler space telescope, hundreds of new planets are being discovered. It is too early to tell whether any of them is Earth-like in terms of being able to sustain life.

However, in time, it will almost certainly find some.’

The former President of the Royal Society then considered the likelihood of there being intelligent life on such planets.

‘While scientists have a good idea about how life project has been going for started as far back as the some time. But I am not first nanosecond, too little holding my breath. There is is known about the origin probably no ET.’ Cosmologists and astroof life on Earth to be able to understand how life might nomers, he continued, were come about elsewhere in ‘mindful of the immense future that lies ahead. the Universe.

‘Our present biosphere is ‘Even if simple life exists, it is unlikely that it the outcome of more than can evolve into complex four billion years of evolulife forms with which tion, but future evolution we could communicate. among humans won’t be on The SETI (Search for the slow timescale of the Extraterrestrial Intelligence) past – natural selection.

It will, for good or ill, be on a much shorter timescale allowed by technology and genetic modification.

‘The 21st century,’ Lord Rees concluded, IN DUBLIN’S FAIR ‘may be a defining CITY moment. It is the first in our planet’s history – p8 45 million centuries so far – when one RED RIDING species, namely HOOD ours, has Earth’s p16

STARGAZER: Astronomer Royal Lord Rees

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£1-a-day challenge

sign up to the Global Poverty Project’s Live Below the Line challenge will raise money for projects that tackle YOUR prayers are requested for Joan, who is poverty around the world. to undergo chemotherapy; for Eileen, whose Global Poverty Project husband has cancer; and for people suffering says that 1.4 billion people after the earthquake in New Zealand and in the world are forced to the earthquake and tsunami in Japan live on the equivalent of and in the conflict in Libya. £1 a day. The challenge is being backed by The The War Cry invites readers to Salvation Army. It is send in requests for prayer, scheduled to take place including the names of individuals from 2–6 May. For more and details of their circumstances. information visit Send your requests to livebelowtheline.org.uk PRAYERLINK, The War Cry, 101 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6BN. Mark your envelope ‘Confidential’.

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Jesus’ followers would have been ashamed by his crucifixion

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(22 April). While mini-dramatisations recreate scenes from the Bible, the experts dig into history to try to see Jesus as his contemporaries would have seen him.

Will Dr Joan Taylor make a splash with her suggestion that the Gospel writers had a tendency to downplay the importance of John the Baptist in Jesus’ life? She says they were worried about distracting attention from Jesus, but that Jesus may have been one of John’s disciples.

Joan says that when Jesus was baptised by John in the River Jordan his visionary experience of God changed his life and led him to start his ministry.

Anyone who thinks that Jesus was meek and mild needs to think

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If he was such a nice guy, why would anyone bother to kill him?

Did John the Baptist have Jesus as one of his disciples?

again, according to Dr Obery Hendricks.

He asks: ‘If he was such a nice guy, why would anyone bother to kill him? Why would anyone bother to follow him?’

Obery believes that people have tried to water down Jesus’ message of political, social and economic justice for ‘the little people’.

From the beginning of his ministry, Jesus’ message was ‘good news for the poor’. Jesus got into trouble because, with sayings such as ‘The first will be last, and the last will be first’, he challenged the elite of society and antagonised the authorities.

Obery thinks Jesus’ message was revolutionary. He speculates: ‘If we could just get a glimpse of that Jesus for one day, this could be a very different world. But I’m not sure that those in power wouldn’t

crucify him all over again.’

Examining accounts of the events which are the crux of the story of Jesus, scholars are impressed by their historical accuracy.

Dr Helen Bond says that 1stcentury followers of Jesus would have been embarrassed by his crucifixion as a common criminal. They had to struggle to make sense of it.

Professor Tom Wright believes that what happened a couple of days after Jesus’ death was that someone who was thoroughly dead was ‘found to be very thoroughly alive’.

If Tom is right about how some people in the 1st century experienced events, it has implications for us in the 21st century.

People in the 1st century knew as well as we do that dead people stay dead, says Tom. ‘This was as much of a shock and a stupid thing to go round saying as it is for us today. And yet they insisted: It has happened.’

The raw, unpolished nature of the early accounts of the Resurrection counts in their favour. Tom suggests that it’s as if those who were trying to describe the Resurrection ‘are saying: “Oh my goodness – this is a whole new world. What are we going to do about it?”’

And what are we going to do about it?

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Mine eyes have In August last year, a collapse at the San José copper mine in Chile trapped 33Inmen underground.

August last year, aSixtycollapse at seven days later a billionthe people watched as one by San José copper mineJOSÉ in Chile trapped 33 men one the men were rescued.

HENRIQUEZ – the pastor of the group –underground. was numberSixty-seven 24 days later a billion people watched as one by one the men were rescued. JOSÉ HENRIQUEZ – the pastor of the group – was number 24

PA photo of José Henriquez greeted by his wife after being rescued from the San José mine

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FREE: José Henriquez is greeted by his wife after being rescued from the San José mine

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AM a man who knows God. I got to know him 25 years ago. I’ve been a miner since 1974 and have been through many accidents in mines. God has spared my life from landslides and earthquakes, but this accident has had significance not only to me but the whole world, it seems.

Like every accident it was unexpected. We were each doing our job in different parts of the mine.

Suddenly there was a huge explosion, and we felt a wave coming at us. The whole mine creaked and groaned, and there was a huge cloud of dust that lasted for three or four hours. There was total chaos. We didn’t know what had happened, but one by one the 33 began to assemble in the shelter. The shelter was the only safe place, because we had some air in there.

We suffered that first day, when we didn’t know whether we were going to live or die. The next time we really suffered was when that first drill was coming down towards us, but we realised it had missed us. We didn’t know

if the people on the surface knew we had survived or not – that was a moment of despair.

As we organised ourselves into a small surviving community, we had to hand out different jobs. One of those jobs came to me and that was to be in charge of prayer. So I had to lead the others. This gave me the opportunity of not only praying but also preaching and sharing with them, encouraging them.

To me it was a great joy and a privilege. When I was a Christian before I went in the mine I learnt that God answers prayer and helps you in your difficulties. I thought: ‘Now I have a chance down here to be able to witness to you, living God.’ That’s why you’ve got to go to church, because you never know when you’re going to end up at the bottom of a mine!

There were tensions.

There were differences of opinion, different characters, different attitudes. It was very complex. When we all started praying we noticed that we couldn’t be indifferent to the Spirit of God who came down there and helped us iron out our difficulties and to form our community. We stayed together, thanks to the intervention of prayer.

A wonderful fellowship began among us. God reconciled one with

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another. Sometimes if there were tensions in that service, which we held twice a day, we would say: ‘You two need to reconcile with each other before we can go on.’

With five days remaining before we went up to the surface, having prayed together, having sung together, having preached the word of God down there daily in two services, it was necessary now to pull the net in and make them decide for Jesus Christ. I wanted a pastor from another city, who would be able to follow up with these people, to come and preach on a video camera down to us. He arrived, did the service and when he did the appeal 22 miners received the Lord Jesus Christ.

None of us wanted something like that mining accident to happen, so traumatic to live through. I don’t believe God wants men to live with accidents.

Because of man these accidents happened – because the heir of the mine doesn’t invest enough in security, because of greed, they don’t respect the rights of the worker.

There are many, many reasons.

Chile has a way of forgetting quickly things of the past. We’re so used to earthquakes and disasters. I have had many accidents, explosions, landslides.

I’ve survived them all. The best thing of all is that God brought people together, and not just in Chile. In other places tragically people have died in mines.

People are dying everywhere in all sorts of problems. For some reason he took us to bring the world’s attention to something he wants to say, to call the world to humble itself in prayer.

All this to me has been a most surprising blessing. Some will say: ‘Why? Why is this a blessing?’ I will say that my wife has come closer to God, my children have come closer to God, my family have all come close to God. God doesn’t want anyone to perish, he wants to save the whole world, but man’s heart gets hardened.

Sometimes through these disasters God speaks to a hardened race of people, so that they will humble themselves and seek his face again.

We stayed together thanks to prayer

G José Henriquez was speaking at Jesus House, London. This article was reprinted, with permission, from Third Way magazine

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Reconciliation and peace HOW do countries and communities deal with the sins of their fathers? Last week four Kenyans went to the High Court in London to seek compensation for injuries allegedly suffered at the hands of British colonial officers in their homeland during the suppression of the Mau Mau uprising in the 1950s.

Passion set to go on tour ACTOR James BurkeDunsmore is set to be crucified – and resurrected – as he plays Jesus in three passion plays in various parts of England.

The action kicks off for James on Good Friday (22 April) when he will play Jesus in the Trafalgar Square passion play in London. (While thousands gather to watch the drama of Christ’s last moments, a passion play which James has written and directed will be taking place in Leicester.)

James will perform in

the Guildford Passion on Saturday. Finally, on Easter Day, he will once again take on the role of Jesus in Brighton in a passion play he also wrote and directed.

‘Playing Jesus is a wonderful responsibility,’ James tells The War Cry. ‘To tell this story to people who perhaps have never heard it before is the best feeling.’

Each of the four passion plays has a unique script, meaning various Easter themes are brought into the spotlight.

‘In Leicester the theme is

ON THE BOX IN Holy Week Channel 4’s 4thought.tv I slot presents a series of short films in which people from Glasgow talk about how they understand the themes of Easter.

Contributors include Susan Campbell-Duncan, who believes that she has been rejected by some people in society because of the facial disfigurement she has had since a young age. She draws comfort from the redemptive message of Easter.

the generosity of God,’ James explains. ‘In Brighton the focus is on Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. All the plays are also about the trial, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.’

For James, the message behind the Easter story is best expressed through performance.

‘The sacrifice that Jesus made for us is written on flimsy bits of paper in the Bible,’ he says. ‘But we need to remind ourselves that those simple words on the page became flesh. The people who lived in Bible times had the same fears and joys as we do. I can’t find a better way to share that message with people than through theatre.’

ANN WIDDECOMBE explores whether new I generations will turn out to be more interested in the Christian faith than their parents in BBC One’s Does Christianity Have a Future? tomorrow (Sunday 17 April). The former politician and Strictly Come Dancing star considers various aspects of the Church in the UK, including the Church of England, the Roman Catholic Church, Pentecostal churches and the Alpha course.

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They said they were assaulted while being held in detention camps. Their alleged injuries included being beaten unconscious, castration and sexual abuse.

According to the BBC, the Kenya Human Rights Commission calculates that ‘90,000 Kenyans were executed, tortured or maimed during the crackdown, and 160,000 were detained in appalling conditions’.

In recent years Britain has sought to come to terms with some of its past. In 2006 Tony Blair expressed ‘deep sorrow’ for Britain’s part in the slave trade. In 2009 Gordon Brown was ‘pleased to have the chance to say how deeply sorry’ he was over the treatment of wartime code-breaker Alan Turing, who took his own life two years after he was chemically castrated for being gay.

Financial compensation is often a mechanism for the righting of wrongs.

Sometimes new attitudes and enforced new actions are enshrined in law.

Holocaust – and other genocide – denial is a crime in a number of countries.

Statements, money, legislation – there is only so much a leader can do to reconcile the present with the past.

What they can’t do is make anyone forgive.

While the Kenyans were in court, a victim of terrorism was being buried.

In Beragh, Co Tyrone, a community – no, two communities – gathered to lay PC Ronan Kerr to rest.

That a former IRA man joined with the Chief Constable to condemn the killing, that loyalists and republicans – Protestants and Catholics – mourned together is a world away from the dark days of the past.

But true reconciliation is possible only when individual penitence is sincere, forgiveness sought and ‘I forgive’ uttered.

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ON THE STAGE

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Ann meets the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams

LIFESTYLE TAKING shorter lunch breaks, working harder to cover staff shortages and cutting visits to the gym are some of the ways in which office workers are responding to pressure in the workplace, according to a survey from office provider Business Environment.

The survey asked 3,000 UK office workers about their working conditions and attitudes. Thirty-one per cent said they felt pressure to work harder because of the economic climate and staff cuts.

More than half of the people surveyed took less than 30 minutes for lunch, and 18 per cent said they usually worked through their lunch break.

There were also considerable differences between types

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Workers are changing their office habits of business. Thirty-eight per cent of people who worked in banking or insurance enjoyed an hour’s break, while 35 per cent of people in the catering industry never took a lunch hour.

The survey also shows that

most workers fail to claim back expenses incurred in office time. Sixty per cent said they did not claim back money that they had spent on team drinks and taxi fares. More than 50 per cent of workers said that they didn’t make an expenses claim because they had lost receipts or did not make time to complete a claim form.

Steve Moore from Business Environment says: ‘The survey has produced some insights into the challenges facing UK business today. It’s apparent that the economic climate is already having an impact on some employees who are now working longer and harder as a result.’

DESK JOCKEY: lunching at the computer is one response to economic struggle

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Jobseekers can sign on as volunteers UNEMPLOYED people I can access thousands of new volunteering and training opportunities that will help them take their first steps back into work through a scheme backed by the Prince’s Trust.

Under the scheme, advisers from the youth charity and other local government voluntary organisations will be located in Jobcentre Plus offices.

They will be available to direct jobseekers of all ages to volunteering and training opportunities in their area.

The new initiative will particularly benefit young people. They will be able to get more support to help them into jobs, education and training.

The Prince’s Trust helps more than 40,000 disadvantaged young people every year.

The trust’s Martina Milburn says: ‘As youth unemployment is at a record high, it is now more important than ever to help young people into jobs. This partnership will help us reach thousands more disadvantaged young people, giving them the skills and confidence to break out of long-term unemployment and poverty. Transforming these young lives will have a huge impact on their families and communities, as well as on Britain’s economy.’

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Irish eyes smile The Salvation Army’s Lefroy House in Dublin provides accommodation and support for homeless young people. Night Light is its emergency shelter, offering food, warmth and a bed for the night to anyone aged from 12 to 18. The centre also helps over-17s adapt to independent living through its support flats.

CLAIRE BRINE talks with people who have been helped by their time at Lefroy and to the staff

Lefroy

Sarah feels at home in her flat

*Some names have been changed

Learning to cook has been a good experience Sarah Support flat resident I came to Lefroy because I could not stay at home with my mum.

We were always arguing. And I couldn’t stick her boyfriend. He was bossy and lazy. I cooked and cleaned all the time but never got any thanks for it.

Before I came here I took

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House Lefroy House

I haven’t been in trouble with the police since living here Julia drugs. But things in my life are a lot better now.

Moving into my flat has changed me. I’ve learnt how to do more for myself, such as make important phone calls or book appointments. Learning how to cook for myself has been a good experience. But at times the flat seems lonely. To stop myself feeling claustrophobic, I have to get out.

I keep busy by going to the gym, seeing my counsellor and doing voluntary work. When I’m older I want to be a care assistant for people with disabilities.

Former resident of Lefroy House If I hadn’t come to Lefroy, I’d still be drinking and getting into trouble with the police. As it stands, I haven’t been in trouble with the police since I lived here ten years ago.

The staff are so supportive at Lefroy.

They talk to you and

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Andrea Cooper Centre manager As well as offering the Night Light emergency shelter to young people, I’d like Lefroy House to start providing a structured daytime programme called Day Light. Teenagers who have nowhere else to go could come along to receive an education, cook a meal for themselves and have time for rest and fun.

I’d also like to offer more opportunities

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offer help if you want to go to college.

If you are worried about anything or not sure what decision to make, you can always talk to your key worker.

Before I came here I had an awful life. But I don’t any more. I’m doing a course in social health and in September I want to go to college to study childcare full-time.

At first homelessness is a bit of a game to the residents of our support flats. My plan would be to provide them with training in a skill such as catering, so that every night they could prepare the meal for Night Light. It would be a good way for them to gain a qualification.

Our overriding aim at Lefroy House is to break the cycle of homelessness among young people before it really starts. At first teenagers may feel that homelessness is exciting, a bit of a game. It doesn’t take them long to become street-savvy. But they eventually grow tired of being on the streets.

It’s a tough life.

It’s my job to ensure that when the young people come to us, they receive the highest possible standard of care.

Andrea

Eoin prepares for Night Light

Moving here has changed me Rebecca Support flat resident

There are good and bad days

Eoin McNulty Social care worker A teenager who has been on the streets all day may not hear any kind words until the moment they step into Lefroy. For that reason they often won’t talk to staff unless they know that we will respect them.

There are good days and bad days in my work here. A bad day is when

If my friends are having a bad time, I say to them: ‘You need a touch of Lefroy House.’ Coming to the Night Light emergency shelter and then moving into the flat has changed me.

There are so many good things about this place. There’s a homely atmosphere and the staff are so supportive. They’re grand. Key workers sit down with you and talk about any problems you have. They help you learn how to cook or fill in forms.

Before I came to Night the police have to step in because a Light I was completely young person’s poor behaviour different. I was often in means they cannot stay, or when trouble with the police. I we see kids coming back because got drunk and generally things haven’t improved for them ran amok. I’d lash out at yet. people on the street and A good day for me is when I am get into fights with able to help a teenager through a strangers. My home life hard time. I like to know that a wasn’t happy, so I’d take young person at Night Light can my anger out on others. go to bed feeling happier than when Some of my behaviour they first arrived. was down to peer pressure. My friends would

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Niamh McCarthy Deputy centre manager There are various reasons why young people come into contact with Lefroy House. A lot of them live within the care system, but if their family placements break down, they may end up coming here.

Sometimes the teenagers have had problems with their parents at home. The parents may be drug users or neglect the child.

Sometimes the parents are violent or caught up in crime, and the child has to escape. It can be safer for the child to be at Lefroy than living in their community.

Some of the young people are taking drugs when they first access our services. Some are addicted to tablets, cocaine and cannabis. On occasion we’ll meet young heroin users.

The teenagers also have other problems. Some self-harm or are violent towards others. Many have depression.

Low self-esteem is also a big problem. Some of them find it very hard to talk to people or build meaningful relationships. Some are full of bravado. Others just want to say: ‘Come on, are you afraid to do this?’ I’d soon prove to them that I wasn’t afraid.

But a lot of my choices were also made of my own free will. I’d play up to block out what was going on at home. I was also trying to get attention and affection from my family.

When I moved into Lefroy I stopped all the bad things I was doing.

I got help from the staff. I used to hate doing things by myself, such as going out to the shops or catching the bus.

Today I go everywhere on my own.

I can even make phone calls to people I don’t know.

My life changed because I started to realise that people cared about me. In here the staff are constantly encouraging you. They’ve given me freedom and trust. My confidence has had a massive boost.

When I think about my past it gets me down. Sometimes I shout off about it. But the past happened. It made me who I am today. And I’m grateful for the choices I’ve made.

Young people who come to Lefroy House have to grab the opportunity and make the most of it. The staff can only help people if they are committed to changing. Young people need not be afraid of asking for help.

When I’m older I want to be a care assistant to elderly or disabled people.

And I want to rent my own place.

These days I’m more caring and

The young people want to feel loved be loved. Many of them struggle to find their identity.

When a young person comes to Lefroy House they are at crisis point. Once we’ve taken them in we try to connect them to professional services, ones which are suitable to help them tackle their difficulties.

When you are caring for a young person, it’s easy to allow your emotions to get involved. It can be difficult to remain objective.

Occasionally I have to step back from the situation and ask for guidance from another member of staff. Sometimes it is hard for staff to see whether their efforts are

Niamh at work in the office

making a difference with the young people. But occasionally a former resident will come back to visit us and say: ‘I still remember all the things you did for me.’

Working here makes me realise

Rebecca and the communal lounge for the support flats respectful than I used to be. I realise that I can give people a chance.

I know I’ll never go back to how I behaved before. It’s not worth it.

There’s a lot more to life and that’s great.

that the world can be quite an unfair place. But when I get to know these young people and see how, with a bit of help, they can change, the job definitely feels worthwhile.

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

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

QUICK QUIZ 1. Which board game includes the instruction: ‘Go to jail’?

2. Which actor provided the voice for the Genie of the Lamp in the Disney film Aladdin?

3. Bell, sweet banana and chilli are types of what?

4. Which chocolate bar’s advertising slogan advises: ‘Have a break’?

5. Brian and Michael had a hit with a song about which artist?

6. What is a tower at the gate of a castle called?

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1. Simple drawing 2. Fail to remember 3. Large lizard 4. Moving in one direction only (3-3) 5. Member of the clergy who assists a vicar 6. Language of Denmark

QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Bedroom. 5 Pitch. 7 Resists. 8 Maize.

10 Core. 11 Methodic. 13 Ladies. 14 Denial.

17 Eloquent. 19 More. 21 Talks. 22 Verdict. 23 Undid.

24 Lingers.

DOWN: 2 Desired. 3 Oust. 4 Missed. 5 Pamphlet.

6 Tried. 7 Recollect. 9 Excellent. 12 Repulsed.

15 Idolise. 16 Snivel. 18 Ogled. 20 Grin.

HONEYCOMB 1 Sketch. 2 Forget. 3 Iguana. 4 One-way. 5 Curate 6 Danish.

QUICK QUIZ 1 Monopoly. 2 Robin Williams. 3 Peppers. 4 Kit Kat. 5 L. S. Lowry. 6 A barbican.

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STEPHEN POXON continues his series looking for – and finding – Jesus in unexpected places

WHERE’S

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SOME years ago I worked night shifts as a security guard. I would leave home at midnight in order to look after a set of old buildings that were earmarked for renovation. My shift finished at 7 am, when I would go home, have a bite to eat and fall asleep.

From time to time the security guard who was supposed to replace me would fail to turn up or would arrive late. I couldn’t leave the buildings, so I just had to wait for him, growing increasingly tired and hungry.

The Bible tells the story of some fishermen who had stayed up all night fishing, but caught nothing (see John 21).

I should imagine that, as dawn broke, they were exhausted, aching, frustrated and in need of a meal and a few hours in bed.

Much to their surprise, so the story continues, they came to the end of their shift only to see Jesus standing on the shore. He

Do we sometimes feel weary, despondent and on the point of giving up?

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called out instructions for them to start fishing all over again by throwing their heavy nets back into the water.

It’s probably fair to assume that after a fruitless night bobbing up and down on the lake, they weren’t too pleased to hear a carpenter

telling them how to do their job.

However, they did as Jesus said and netted a massive catch. Not only that, but when they came ashore Jesus was cooking them a welcome breakfast of bread and fish.

Do we sometimes find

ourselves feeling a bit like those fishermen – weary, despondent and on the point of giving up?

Nothing seems to be going right, however hard we try. We feel like packing everything in.

As the fishermen tucked into their earlymorning breakfast, I wonder if it dawned on them that Jesus was teaching them an important lesson – that he knows all our needs, that he cares, and that in every moment of despair he is right there beside us, however we are feeling.

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Another tale relates to how the robin got its red breast. During the crucifixion of Jesus, so the story goes, a robin tried to remove the thorns from Jesus’ head. Drops of blood fell on to the bird, staining its feathers for ever.

While these are simply legends, the life, death and resurrection of Jesus are a reality. The Bible writer John put it like this: ‘God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life’ (John 3:16 Good News Bible).

Countless people through the centuries have experienced the positive difference that having a relationship with Jesus the Son of God can make to their lives.

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Although seen in the UK all year round, robins are generally associated with Christmas time.

They adorn Christmas cards and decorations and are a recognisable part of the festive season.

A number of stories and myths have grown up over the years relating to these small redbreasted birds. According to one legend, if the first bird a young lady sees on Valentine’s Day is a robin, she is destined to marry a sailor.

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ONE of the things that is guaranteed to brighten me up on a dreary, overcast day is the sight of a robin. At my previous house I often saw a robin in the garden during the winter months. I would regularly stop whatever I was doing and watch this cheery, colourful little bird until it flew away.

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WHAT’S COOKING?

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THE MAIN ATTRACTION

Lancashire hotpot Ingredients: 2 bay leaves 600g potatoes, finely sliced 150g onions, finely chopped 3tbsp oil 25g plain flour 600g best-end lamb chops 450ml water 1tbsp Worcester sauce 1tsp anchovy sauce 4 lamb kidneys, halved Freshly ground black pepper

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Eton mess Ingredients: 350g strawberries 150g blueberries 280ml double cream 280ml plain or Greek yogurt For the meringues 3 large egg whites 170g caster sugar Method: Preheat the oven to 100C/200F/Gas Mark 1â „2.

To make the meringues, beat the egg whites until stiff. Take half of the sugar and beat 1tbsp at a time into the egg whites. The whites should appear shiny and stiff. Fold in the other half of the sugar with a metal spoon.

Spoon 8 mounds of the meringue mixture on to a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Bake for

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90 minutes, then switch the oven off. Leave the meringues to cool in the oven with the door ajar.

Remove the baking paper from the meringues and store in an airtight container until ready to prepare the dessert.

To make the dessert, halve the strawberries. Break the meringues into large chunks, reserving any crumbs. Whip the cream into soft peaks, then stir in the yoghurt.

Fold the yoghurt mixture, strawberries, blueberries and meringues together. Serve the Eton mess in a large bowl or divide between 6 dishes.

Serves 6

Method: Preheat the oven to 220C/425F/Gas Mark 7. Put the bay leaves at the bottom of a large casserole dish and lay half the potatoes on top.

Season well.

In a frying pan brown the onion in half the oil, then remove and set aside. Lightly flour the chops, then add them to the pan with the rest of the oil.

Brown the chops on both sides, then pour off any excess fat.

Add the water to the frying pan, scraping up the burnt meat and onion juices.

Add the Worcester sauce and anchovy sauce to this stock, then season to taste.

Layer the chops on top of the potatoes already in the dish, packing them fairly tightly together.

Put a kidney half on top of each chop, then top with a small heap of cooked onion.

Season well.

Add the final layer of potatoes to the dish and season. Pour over the stock.

Cover the hotpot with foil and bake in the oven for 30 minutes. Reduce the heat and bake at 170C/325F/Gas Mark 3 for a further 90 minutes.

Be sure to remove the foil for the last 45 minutes to allow the potatoes to brown.

Serves 4

KIMBERLY FRENCH

BETTER Valerie walks to Grandma’s house

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life be the werewolf?’

Whatever the circumstances of life, trusting others is always a risky business. Trust can be abused.

People we depend on can let us down. They may lash out at us in a guarantee their safety in return. But after the rising of a way that seems out of character.

WHO’S afraid of the big bad wolf? The villagers of Daggerhorn, that’s who. Each blood-red moon, the wolf’s behaviour changes. He Once trust is broken, it can be kills one of the villagers, Rose. The sister of the victim difficult to repair the damage. full moon the beast prowls their is Valerie, Red Riding Hood (Amanda Seyfried).

Although people may fail us, the neighbourhood in Red Riding Hood – a Fear sweeps over the people of Daggerhorn. They Bible reassures us that God will new take on the traditional fairy story, cannot stop the beast from killing. They ask hunter never let us down. For thousands of released at cinemas yesterday (Friday Father Solomon (Gary Oldman) to destroy the wolf. years, many people have dedicated 15 April).

But Solomon fails to provide the happy ending that the their lives to trusting him. In him For decades the villagers have offered the wolf a people are hoping for. they have found forgiveness for the monthly animal sacrifice to satisfy his hunger and ‘The wolf is someone in this village,’ he says. He times they behaved badly. They have points out that, by day, the animal received strength to see them takes on human form. through the painful chapters of life.

Nobody is safe. Everybody is a One Bible writer urged others: YOUR LOCAL SALVATION ARMY CENTRE suspect. Each villager is in danger of ‘Trust in the Lord, because his love death, even when in the company of is constant’ (Psalm 130:7 Good loved ones.

News Bible).

‘Valerie doesn’t know who to When we put our faith in God, we trust,’ Amanda Seyfried says of her have someone to trust – no matter character. ‘She has cause to suspect what monstrous problems we are up everybody. Could the love of her against. End of story.

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