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FIGHTING FOR HEARTS AND SOULS

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LISTENERS joining Last week presenter Kirsty and Radio 4 invited JOIN DISC Young members of the public to do only a select few have CASTAWAYS what done: allow themselves to be

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NEWS

The War Cry 4 June 2011 Ed Miliband addresses CSM members

LABOUR LEADER CONGRATULATES CSM

Ed believes in Christian Socialist scene

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ED MILIBAND congratulated the Christian Socialist Movement (CSM) on reaching its 50th anniversary when he spoke at a celebration in London.

Addressing CSM members at the reception at Christ Church and Upton Chapel, the Labour Party leader said: ‘The reason I’m so excited about the CSM scene is that it’s about the kind of Labour

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Party I believe in. It’s about a Labour Party which doesn’t just knock on people’s doors and says: “By the way, it’s election time; come and vote for us.” It is about a Labour Party that says: “We are going to change your community, day in, day out.”’

Mr Miliband said that such an approach to politics, rather than the deliberations of ‘remote technocrats’, is what

brings about change in society.

‘CSM knows from its history, from its 50 years of fighting for all the causes we care about – from overseas aid to climate change – that it’s people who make change happen, not politicians,’ he said.

During the evening messages were read out from Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, thanking CSM members for their role in creating momentum for campaigns for social justice.

CSM, which is the Church and not merely cherished as affiliated to the a literary artefact?’

Labour Party, aims The Bible, he said, is not material for to provide Christians autopsy-like analysis but ‘is to be re- who approach actualised in the life of the community’. politics ‘from Dismissing the idea that the language a left-sided of the King James Bible makes its mes- perspective’ with the sage incomprehensible to the present chance to ‘help generation, the Bishop concluded with shape the political the hope that ‘this year will be but the agenda’ through prelude to a determined attempt to reac- lobbying, public quaint the young with a text which has meetings, been one of the major influences on the publications and way we are now’. branch activities.

Bishop questions future of Bible FOUR weeks after preaching at the royal wedding, the Bishop of London, the Rightt Rev Richard Chartres, was again speaking in Westminster Abbey.

Giving the 26th Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture, Dr Chartres addressed the question: ‘Does the King James Bible have a future?’

In a scholarly yet entertaining overview, he recounted the political and ecclesiastical tensions surrounding the history of the book. Noting that one of the key aims of the King James Bible was to produce a translation that would be ‘an instrument of peace’, he emphasised the ‘explicit and vital role’ of the Bible in the development of the English state.

‘Every society needs spiritual glue and a shared moral compass,’ he said.

‘Economic activity and political life must have ground beneath them. Human beings are not blind globs of idling protoplasm but are creatures who live in a world of symbols and of dreams and not merely matter.’

Dr Chartres also pointed out that it is the biblical concept that God created humankind in his own image that ‘has done more than any other to provide a foundation for human dignity and equality. It is no accident that the cultures which have developed these notions

have grown out of Judaeo-Christian soil and a biblical world view’.

Delighted that its 400th anniversary was attracting wide coverage, Dr Chartres considered the future for the King James Bible.

Will the commemorations, he asked, prove to be a ‘ceremonious funeral service for the King James Bible’ or will a ‘reassessment of the 1611 translation confirm its place in the living culture of the English-speaking peoples and renew its life as a sacred text in the worship of

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N the early months of this year the news was full of stories of largescale emergencies in Japan, New Zealand, Australia and Brazil.

One disaster that went largely unnoticed was serious flooding in Sri Lanka. Maybe this was because – fortunately – not many people died. An estimated 44 people lost their lives, but the loss of home and possessions can be terribly stressful, especially when the means of earning a living is also gone.

In my work with The Salvation Army’s Londonbased International Emergency Services, I have flown to Sri Lanka to talk with local Salvationists about how best to respond to those in need. My short assessment trip begins in the capital, Colombo, where I meet the country’s Salvation Army leadership to review the response to the flooding.

Early the next day, accompanied by two colleagues – Nalin and Captain Felix Kumaravel – I travel east to Valachchenai and Karadiyanaru.

We stop for breakfast to eat a local spicy delicacy with a table of Buddhist monks for company. Our journey takes just over six hours but the unusual sights, such as elephants rather than dogs in people’s front gardens, make the journey pass quickly.

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forgotten Major RAELTON GIBBS reports on The Salvation Army’s response to floods in Sri Lanka

Arriving at our destination, we tour the flood-affected areas to assess the damage and speak with some of the victims.

The flood waters have mainly receded but the effects are obvious and have taken their toll. For years these communities suffered during the civil war. Then in 2004 they were all but wiped out by the Indian Ocean Boxing Day tsunami.

Now disaster has struck again. How is it

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A Sri Lankan village

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During the floods, they had problems with snakes and crocodiles From page 3 that the people with next to nothing are always the ones to be affected in these situations, leaving them with even less?

The locals talk about their needs but most of the matters they raise are long-term issues that existed before the floods – poverty, poor education and high unemployment. The community includes a large number of fishermen, who explain that they are struggling to sell their produce because people believe that in the tsunami and floods the fish will have eaten flesh from dead bodies.

People ask for their wells to be cleared and cleaned as they have been contaminated by flood water. As the procedure costs just £7 a well, this cheap and simple way to help will have a profound impact on people’s lives.

While I’m in the area, I call in to see a couple of existing Salvation Army projects. The first is a mobile clinic that visits the community every week. In an old rundown building the doctor and nurses attend to a line of ill people of all ages, caring for them, treating their ailments and dispensing medication.

The second project provides children of the village with extra nutrition and education. It also Mothers and babies in tries to help them work through and deal with the a maternity unit traumas of war they have experienced. I am greeted as a special guest with garlands of they are not forgotten. jasmine and a song in English.

The work and dedication of staff runI have done nothing to earn such respect. I am merely taking the opportu- ning both projects – funded by The nity to visit and show an interest. Salvation Army in Canada and Bermuda Having said that, I am aware how – are impressive.

We head to Batticaloa for a meal with important it is for people to know

the district officer and his family. They kindly take some of the spiciness out of the meal for my Western taste buds.

The day ends with a visit to The Salvation Army’s children’s home in Batticaloa. Twelve girls from the age of six to eighteen live here in two rooms plus toilets and a kitchen. The facilities may not be large but the quality of care

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is clear. All the girls are doing well at school and some of the older ones have been accepted for university. I continue to be amazed at the selfless work of The Salvation Army around the world.

The next day starts with a meeting with local political leaders. Before visiting the mayor, we are received by Mr Pon Selvarasa, the local Member of Parliament. As well as ensuring that politicians know what The Salvation Army has been doing, we want to hear their thoughts on the crisis and learn what gaps in provision they think we could fill.

Co-ordination is a vital element of any emergency response. In meetings with government officials and nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) up-to-date information is essential so that we can make best use of resources and expertise.

After spending time with the politicians, we head for Kokkadichcholai, Kalmunai and Ampara to visit more people affected by the flooding.

To get to some of the communities we have to cross a lagoon by ferry.

Thankfully, it takes no more than ten minutes. The precarious ferry can manage only one car and a couple of tuk-tuks (a type of scooter often used as a taxi) at a time, along with as many

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Children at a Salvation Army project in Kalmunai

bikes and motorbikes as can be packed round them.

We visit communities where the houses are built of mud, which means the floods have washed away the walls.

In one area, people tell us that during the floods, they had problems with snakes and crocodiles – and when a seven-foot croc swims past the ferry I get a firsthand idea of what they mean.

Job done, the journey back to the airport is hampered by the fact that there is an election campaign. In the UK it often seems we couldn’t care about elections but this is certainly not the case in Sri Lanka. We pass through a number of rallies, with groups of supporters of the various parties waving flags and banners and driving in convoy.

On the way to Colombo we call into a Salvation Army project, based in a rented house, which is supporting children and women. When we arrive, an English lesson is taking place.

Thanks to the flood-damaged roads, it takes nine long hours to reach Colombo.

My final day in Sri Lanka begins with a debrief conference in The Salvation Army’s headquarters – reporting what

The locals talk about poor education and high unemployment

we’ve seen, discussing what can be done.

The rest of the day is taken up with report-writing and a visit to The Haven, a Salvation Army project for women in Colombo. Some of the women sent to the project by the Government are homeless. Others have been abused or raped. Some are victims of domestic violence. A number of them have committed crimes.

The building has seen better days.

One wing which was built to hold 34 women currently houses 72. The team of single women Salvation Army officers at The Haven work in difficult circumstances, as some residents are so distressed that they have eaten glass to try to kill themselves.

Such difficulties make the success rate at The Haven even more remarkable. The quality of the ministry is so high that the Government is keen to keep referring people to the centre.

My time in Sri Lanka has enabled me to see many aspects of The Salvation Army’s extraordinary work. The response to the floods was impressive.

The ongoing ministry to some of the world’s poorest people is amazing.

G This article first appeared in The Salvation Army’s All The World magazine

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Comment

Newsreader becomes cathedral guide

Gagging order

‘FORMER BBC newsreader Jan Leeming has found a fresh role … as a cathedral guide,’ reported the Daily Mail.

According to the paper, Miss Leeming has passed the relevant exams to join a team of 350 volunteers at Canterbury Cathedral. She greets and helps visitors throughout two-hour shifts.

The presenter – who also appeared on I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here! – says she was looking for an activity to occupy her time. On a visit to the cathedral she spoke with one of the guides who suggested that she join the team.

‘I was christened CofE, went to Catholic schools, and Methodist

PA photo of Jan Leeming Jan Leeming

Sunday school,’ says the presenter.

‘But I am drawn to the crypt at Canterbury Cathedral.’

Canon Clare Edwards is hopeful that Miss Leeming’s willingness to volunteer will encourage others to step forward. She is also confident that the presenter’s TV experience will help her in the role.

‘Being a newsreader will help her as a guide. But reading the news you have an autocue. Here she’ll have to know it all,’ she says.

RADIO

Vicar addresses clerical clothing THE Rev Richard Coles explores the history I and the importance of church vestments in Good In Vestments on Radio 4 on Monday

PRESENTER Brian I D’Arcy analyses the meaning of Jesus’ ascension into Heaven in Sunday Half Hour on Radio 2 tomorrow (Sunday 5 June). Hymns include ‘Crown Him With Many Crowns’ and ‘All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name’.

(6 June).

During the programme he asks why the clergy still wear them, explores how the items are made and considers whether the emergence of women priests has made a difference to the clothes people wear in church.

He also visits one of London’s oldest vestment companies, THE leader of where he meets priests The Salvation being measured for Army’s International their new clothes and Staff Band, Dr Stephen talks with seamstresses Cobb, talks to who stitch the chasubles presenter Frank Renton on Radio 2’s Listen to and stoles by hand. the Band on Wednesday (8 June).

The presenter also Richard Coles

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interviews some of the conductors and musicians who are taking part in a special concert at the Albert Hall, marking the 120th anniversary of the band.

PA

Newspapers report that the judiciary might now bar the media from repeating statements made under parliamentary privilege. The Speaker is reported to be under pressure to stand up for MPs’ rights. It is the question of rights that is at the heart of the issue.

The UK has no formal privacy law.

The 1998 Human Rights Act, though, adds legal weight to the European Convention of Human Rights, to which the UK is a signatory.

Under Article 8 of the convention, ‘everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence’.

But Article 10 says: ‘Everyone has the right to freedom of expression.

This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers.’

Until the parliamentary ‘outing’ of the footballer, the media was crying ‘foul!’

Meanwhile, social networking media indiscriminately tweeted allegations – true and false.

One of the hallmarks of a democracy is a free media. It is the role of a free media to reveal matters that are in the public interest.

It is not public-interest stories that sell newspapers. Stories the public are interested in sell newspapers. That means tittle-tattle, long-lens snaps, voicemail hacking and phone-tapping.

With rights must come responsibility.

The media has a responsibility for getting its facts right. We all do.

We are unlikely to be gagged, but does the way we personally broadcast ‘news’ about somebody else’s weakness and failings sometimes make us wish we had been?

IN THE PRESS

WHERE will it end? The row over the rich and famous using injunctions to stop their dirty linen being washed in public rumbles on. Far from blowing full-time on the matter, an MP’s naming of a footballer under parliamentary privilege (by which an MP and those who report them cannot be sued) has brought all kinds of questions into play.

THE GREAT OUTDOORS

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Sweet Williams in full bloom

by LEE

SENIOR

Sow, you want a colourful garden?

IT amazes me that in Britain we often complain about the weather. I think it’s unjustified. The sheer diversity of plants that the British climate enables us to grow is astounding.

Now is the perfect time to sow a range of biennials for dazzling colour next year.

Iceland poppies, sweet William, Bellis daisies and, of course, the wonderfully fragrant wallflower are just a few.

It is not too late to sow perennial flowers from seed.

They will have time now to build up a good root system before winter so that they can put on a bigger display next summer.

I grow most of my border perennials such as aquilegia, geum, potentilla, achilleas, delphiniums and lavender from seed. This saves pounds on garden-centre prices.

To grow from seed means we need patience, space and time. However, it is worth the effort as each fully grown plant costs only a few pence.

and don’t forget…

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PINCH THOSE HERBS Keep pinching out the I shoots of lavender, rosemary, sage and other culinary favourites, even if you don’t intend to use them. This will stop the plants becoming woody, and they will keep a compact bushy shape.

Lavender is a great plant for insects, and its fragrance has a calming influence on the gardener. Flowers can be dried, stored and used indoors for a scented display.

A field of lavender

Tomatoes

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Professor, how did you become interested in science?

Curiosity. As a boy, I was always very curious about how things worked – taking the backs off clocks and things like that to see what went on inside.

I left school in 1942 and in aid of the war effort was offered a government bursary to study physics with radio at Cambridge University.

I’m afraid I was more interested in rowing than radio. I am not academically brilliant (you don’t have to be brilliant to get a Nobel prize; you just have to be doing the right things at the right time in the right place), so my first year at university was a bit of a flop.

Instead of continuing the degree, I was put on a practical radio course and then directed to RAE Farnborough to work on aircraft communications. After six months, I was transferred to Malvern to work on the development of radar. One of my jobs was to make equipment to jam radar on German night-fighters. After the war, I went back and finished my degree.

And you became an academic?

Yes. Martin Ryle, whom I’d worked

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He has spent a lifetime staring into space, pioneering technologies and catching the wonder of the heavens on his radio telescopes. In 1974 he won a Nobel prize for the discovery of pulsars, thinking them at first to be little green men.

Rather than focus on intelligent life elsewhere in the Universe, astrophysicist Professor TONY HEWISH concentrates on the intelligence behind the Universe, as he tells Nigel Bovey

under at Malvern, was leading a group investigating solar radio waves, which had been discovered during the war but were considered top secret.

Nuclear physics was a fashionable subject but all the research groups were full. When I heard of Ryle’s work, I applied to join his group.

Was this radio astronomy?

Eventually that’s what it became known as, but at the time it was so new that it had no name. All we knew was that there were radio waves coming from the sky. It was groundbreaking technology. We had to develop equipment to detect and measure these waves and develop ideas on how we could understand them.

In 1974 you, along with Martin Ryle, received the Nobel Prize for Physics for your decisive role in the discovery of pulsars. How did that come about?

We were actually looking for quasars, which are a type of radio galaxy. In 1967 I’d set up a brand new telescope – about four and a half acres’ worth of television-like aerials all connected.

My graduate student Jocelyn Bell and I had been observing for less than six months when we discovered that there were places in the sky which were omitting regular, sharp pulses.

Something going click-click-click about once every second. It seemed totally artificial.

To begin with I thought I’d picked up extraterrestrial intelligence. We called it the ‘little green men’.

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something

After a few weeks of intensive research, ruling out intelligent signals and radio interference, I realised that this object was smaller than a planet and that we’d discovered the first neutron stars.

To begin with I thought I’d picked up extraterrestrial intelligence

Did the idea that you might have discovered little green men excite you?

It kept me awake at night. Martin Ryle and I decided that until we knew exactly what this phenomenon was we

would keep our mouths shut. The slightest mention that we might have discovered intelligent life in space would have brought the world’s media to our door, and getting on with the science would have been impossible and lost in intergalactic politics.

I was greatly relieved to discover that I hadn’t. It wasn’t until we’d found four places in the sky where this

phenomenon took place that we published the data through the scientific journal Nature.

So what did you find?

I was able to measure the distance to this object and worked out that it was 100 light years away among our nearest stars.

It was a naturally occurring regular signal, a radio beacon more accurate than any time-measuring device in our lab. After three weeks, I discovered it

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Nasa

The pulsar B1509 is believed to be 17,000 light years away

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From page 9 had no discernible Doppler effect – no change in periodicity due to elliptical movement – so that ruled out the possibility of it having an orbit and therefore being a planet.

Neutron stars, in which burnt-out stars have been squashed by gravity into balls only a few miles in diameter, had been predicted theoretically in the 1930s. I thought that our observed pulses might be caused by radial vibrations of such stars. But within one year it was found that rotating neutron stars could emit a beam of radiation along their magnetic axes, acting like stellar lighthouses. There is still much to learn about pulsars but I feel very proud to have opened up this new chapter in astronomy.

To what extent has being a Nobel laureate improved you as a scientist?

Not at all. I get a lot of invitations,

Science can’t tell us the who and the why some of them to three-day conferences to solve the world’s problems. I’m an astrophysicist – I haven’t anything to offer these occasions.

What do the heavens tell us about our world?

They tell us how it is part of the history of the Universe. By studying stars and planets we can begin to understand how we arrived. They cannot tell us the origin of life but they can tell us a lot about the conditions life needs, the sort of stars Earth needed to be close to, the sort of planetary orbits required for carbon-based life to be possible on Earth.

Knowing where stars come from – and from them the history of the Universe from the big bang onwards – is vitally important. Wanting to know how we emerged is part of being human.

When and how did you become a Christian?

I was brought up in a Christian family and went to a Christian boarding school. As a lad, I sometimes found going to chapel a waste of time, but

there was always the sense at the back of my mind that there has to be a God. I only began to think of these things seriously when I got into research.

People got to know that I went to church on Sundays. They started asking me how I could be doing physics and believe in God. I had to work out my relationship with God and the relationship between faith and science.

What convinced you that Jesus is who he says he is?

The evidence of the Bible. At first glance, the idea that God revealed himself through a human who walked on Earth may seem impossible. But then I realised that there are things in physics that sound equally impossible.

In quantum physics, for example, where we look at things smaller than atoms, we don’t understand how a single electron can simultaneously be a speck of matter and a wave. How can something be in two places at once?

Nobody can explain. That is a mystery of science.

If science has mysteries, I am ready to accept religious mysteries such as the Incarnation. If God exists, he has to communicate in the most intelligent way possible. As humankind is the most intelligent life form we know about, God making himself known through human form is logical. In fact, it’s the only way he could have done so.

The idea that science has mysteries – that it doesn’t have all the answers – contradicts the ‘new atheist’ stance that religion is founded on superstition requiring blind leaps of faith. Why are the atheists wrong?

Mysteries are not irrational; it is just that we can’t get behind them. In reality, there is no sharp dividing line between faith and science. It is simplistic to ask whether something is caused either by magic or a machine. Non-intuitive

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things exist and our brains don’t have the capacity to understand them.

In order to be able to do science, scientists need faith. This is not faith in God but in the fact that physics is repeatable – that if, for example, we drop a book it will fall to the floor and do so at the same rate as every other book before.

Without that faith in the scientific process, scientists will not be able to explain those things that currently appear counter-intuitive.

How have your Christian faith and your science informed each other?

I don’t think they have. They are different arenas that don’t overlap, any more than being a physicist helps me to appreciate music.

To what extent can science prove the existence of God? It can’t. That’s not its job.

As a scientist, do you see the big bang as the best available explanation of how life has developed through the Universe?

Yes, I do.

Does the big bang conflict at all with your beliefs as a Christian?

Not at all. We are trying to find out how the world operates physically. But whatever we discover doesn’t tell us anything about the way in which we should live. Science is the ‘how’ question rather than the ‘why’ question.

We can’t be human without asking the ‘why’ questions, such as ‘Why are we here?’ For that answer, you need to look beyond science.

New atheists would say that science and rationalism provides all the answers we need. Are they right?

No. Just as faith isn’t designed to answer questions on the speed of light, so there are questions which are beyond the scope of science. Science can tell us the how, but it can’t tell us the who or the why. Faith and science are complementary approaches to the world. We need both.

You mention cosmological conditions being just right so carbon-based life could be sustainable on Earth. Is the Universe designed or is it a happy accident?

In some ways, the set-up – distances between Earth and the Sun and so on – is a happenstance determined by the laws of physics. But I like to think that we didn’t arrive completely by chance – that there is a purpose for it all. This leads me to think that without a designer, the Universe doesn’t make sense; that the Universe doesn’t make sense without God.

The Genesis account of Creation speaks of God making Adam from the dust of the earth. Cosmology says that humans are made from stardust.

How accurate is it to conclude that science backs the biblical description of how human life came about?

Genesis is amazingly accurate. The human body contains minerals, such as iron, that are found in the ground and in other parts of the galaxy. The Universe was once a blindingly hot gas. As it cooled, hot gas condensed into galaxies, and then into stars. The only place where iron – and other chemical elements – could be made was in core of those nuclear reactors we call stars.

Eventually, stars exploded, their chemical components vaporised and were scattered into space. Some of them landed on Earth.

Faith and science are complementary approaches to the world

Tony Hewish at the controls of his historic telescope at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, Cambridge

How did those chemical leftovers from stellar explosions become life?

We don’t know. Possibly a development from primitive microbes – but how did they get here? Scientists are still investigating.

You have spent years surveying the distant skies, seeing things most of us will never see. When you look in the heavens, do you see God? Yes, I do, but not only in the heavens.

I see God in a daffodil or in the beauty of an early-morning cliff walk in my native Cornwall. At times like these, it hits me that the world is an amazing place – full of wonder. It is not just the result of happenstance.

PUZZLEBREAK

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

O N Y WORDSEARCH S C Look up, down, S forwards, backwards D and diagonally on the grid to find these words P that start with ‘long’ R U BOARD P BOAT S BOW R DAY P DISTANCE S DIVISION DRAWN FACE HAIR HAND

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HONEYCOMB Each solution starts on the coloured cell and reads clockwise round the number 1. Raise 2. Glass opening 3. Stop sleeping 4. Satisfy thirst 5. Broad path 6. Lengthy fight DOWN 2. Robber (5) 3. The Pope (7) 4. Scattered (6) 5. Copper and zinc alloy (5) 6. Banish (5) 7. Stoneworker (5) 9. Thigh bone (5) 14. Songbird (3) 15. Greek letter (3) 17. Small island (3) 18. Sprite (3) 20. Spore of ropes, for example (7) 21. Crazed (5) 22. Young swan (6) 23. Parody (5) 24. Loosen (5) 25. Paper (5) 27. Shirker (5)

QUICK QUIZ 1. Which fast food establishment uses the slogan ‘Have it your way’?

2. What is the more common name for epistaxis?

3. In Morse code, which letter is represented by three dashes?

4. In which country was composer Igor Stravinsky born?

5. What does a bibliophile collect?

6. The film A Knight’s Tale is based on which medieval pursuit?

QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Get-up. 4 Sabre. 8 Out. 9 Feign.

10 Aries. 11 The. 12 Mufti. 13 Western. 16 Ratify.

19 Fathom. 23 Stupefy. 26 Alien. 28 Gag. 29 Oates.

30 Relic. 31 Era. 32 Egypt. 33 Murky.

DOWN: 2 Thief. 3 Pontiff. 4 Strewn. 5 Brass.

6 Exile. 7 Mason. 9 Femur. 14 Tit. 15 Rho. 17 Ait. 18 Imp. 20 Anagram. 21 Manic. 22 Cygnet.

23 Spoof. 24 Untie. 25 Essay. 27 Idler.

QUICK QUIZ 1 Burger King. 2 A nosebleed. 3 O. 4 Russia.

5 Books. 6 Jousting.

HONEYCOMB 1 Uplift. 2 Window. 3 Awaken. 4 Quench.

5 Avenue. 6 Battle.

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Dying by the sword

To commemorate this year’s 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, PHILIPPA SMALE looks at some everyday expressions popularised by the translation

AS the fuss over celebrity superinjunctions rumbles on, one thing is no secret – some celebs want to stop their dirty linen being washed in public. A number of stars of screen and sport have reportedly taken out injunctions and super-injunctions to prevent unfortunate stories about their private lives appearing in the press.

Meanwhile, some celebs – such as actress Sienna Miller – have taken legal action against the News of the World for hacking into their private phones.

Where a crime has been committed, any citizen – A-lister or not – should have the right and easy access to redress. But the whole celebrity culture is fed and watered by publicity – getting yourself named and noticed in the media.

So is it the case that if people want fame, they have to accept the downside – that people want to know every detail of their lives? When the famous become infamous, exposure has built them up and brought them down. Some observers might suggest that ‘those who live by the sword die by the sword’.

The expression comes from something Jesus said at his arrest. As the guards approached Jesus, Peter drew a sword and cut off the ear of a servant. Jesus told Peter: ‘Put your sword back in its place … for all who draw the sword will die by

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‘Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword’ (Matthew 26:52)

the sword’ (Matthew 26:52 New International Version).

Jesus knew that reacting to violence with more violence was not the way for those who followed the values of the Kingdom of God. He knew that over time his followers would be arrested, beaten, stoned and killed, but he did not want them to carry any sword except the ‘sword of the Spirit’ which is ‘the word of God’ (Ephesians 6:17).

Jesus also knew that following him would include times when his disciples had to accept suffering rather than fight against it. It still does.

Celebrity culture is fed by publicity

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Is it mad not to get even?

by MATT CLIFTON

IT’S time to get even. At least, the urge to do so is making headlines. Take the case of Majid Movahedi, reported in newspapers. Mr Movahedi is an Iranian who blinded and disfigured a woman using a bucket of acid, after she refused his repeated marriage proposals. At her request, he was sentenced by an Iranian court to be blinded with the same substance.

We can sympathise with a victim’s quest for justice, sensing instinctively that wrongdoers should receive their ‘just deserts’ and ‘get a taste of their own medicine’. This chimes with the ancient law recorded in the Bible: ‘Anyone who injures their neighbour is to be injured in the same manner: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth’ (Leviticus 24:19, 20 New International Version). This law was intended, however, not to encourage brutal retaliation, but to restrain the dangerous

feuds and vendettas that commonly escalated in those days. Such justice also acted as a deterrent.

The argument for proportional punishment is as strong as ever. There is a case for ensuring that those who commit offences know that there are severe consequences to their actions.

Why, then, did Jesus teach: ‘You have heard that it was said, “Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.” But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also’ (Matthew 5:38, 39)?

While his words were no challenge to a government’s responsibility to uphold justice, Jesus knew what retaliation can do to us personally.

Although revenge seems sweet, it soon succumbs to the sourness of deep-seated resentment. We risk stooping to the level of the offender.

Instead, says Jesus, meet hate with love, thereby challenging and perhaps even changing the wrongdoer. Only then can the anger be dispelled.

It’s time to get even better ways of confronting the evil that others do.

You have heard that it was said,‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you, do not resist an evil person

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marooned on an imaginary desert island with eight records of their choice. Desert Island Discs fans have been choosing their tracks on the programme’s website, which includes an archive of previous shows.

PA The cut-off for being cut off from civilisation was photo yesterday (Friday 3 June). The public’s disc decisions – and the stories behind the choices – are being compiled for a one-off Your Desert Island Discs due to be broadcast next Saturday (11 June).

Desert Island Discs was first presented by Roy Plomley in 1942. Almost three million people still tune in every week to hear a castaway who has made a name for themselves in their field – whether TV, theatre, music, sport, politics or academia – tell Kirsty Young which eight records they would like to have with them if they were stranded on a desert island.

Each castaway is given The Complete Works of William Shakespeare and a copy of the Bible. They are SELECT allowed to choose an additional book and a luxury COMPANY: Annie Lennox and item.

As well as selecting a playlist, castaways talk about Kwame Kwei-Armah have been their lives – their career paths and personal ups and castaways downs. The show hits the high notes when a castaway explains their choice he said that ‘We Fall Down’ by gospel by talking about the role a piece of artist Donnie McClurkin summed up a troubled year for him. music has played in their lives.

When she was stranded, singer Annie Actor and playwright Kwame KweiArmah spoke of how ‘Fight the Power’ Lennox said of her selections: ‘They’re by rappers Public Enemy ‘inspired me part of me. Music, after all, is so to use art as a catalyst for debate’, and personal. People hear music, they love

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it, they identify with it, they personalise it.’

No wonder castaways want to keep music with them when they are marooned. It seems more than a luxury. It can help us through times when we feel isolated. It can express the happiness we feel at good times; the longing we feel for a better life; and (even though the most requested non-classical song in the show’s history is Edith Piaf’s ‘Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien’) the sadness we feel at the pain we’ve been caused and which we cause others.

There can be further music to our ears if we open up one of the two books that castaways are given. While acknowledging the loneliness, bitterness or anxiety that we might feel, the Bible offers the message that we do not need to be trapped by the past or be in despair about the future, because God is always with us. As it says: ‘God is our shelter and strength, always ready to help in times of trouble’ (Psalm 46:1 Good News Bible).

God knows there are times when our self-centredness cuts us off from other people and even from the better part of ourselves; but if we choose to trust our lives to him he doesn’t palm us off. He offers forgiveness for the past and guidance for the future.

Even when we feel downcast there’s no need us when to feel cast away. We can make God our choice.

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THE WHY should the devil have all the best tunes? So asked founder William Booth to explain the joyfulness and vitality of Salvation Army music-making.

Foremost in Booth’s brand of Christianity was the idea that the good news of Jesus was for everyone and that if people didn’t go to church, then church should go to people. That idea remains.

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This weekend, The Salvation Army’s UK-based International Staff Band (ISB) celebrates 120 years of taking the gospel to

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From page 1 where people are. Seven bands from Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands and the USA are joining in the musical celebrations.

For the past ten days, from Clydebank to Plymouth, the international visitors have been performing concerts throughout the UK. Yesterday, the ISB and guests played a sell-out concert at the Albert Hall.

This afternoon, they march together down The Mall before playing in the forecourt of Buckingham Palace.

While this weekend is a special occasion, week in, week out Salvation Army bands – big and small – are playing a

There is something special about the sound huge part in presenting the gospel. As well as accompanying the hymnsinging in Salvation Army services, bands regularly hold services on high streets and housing estates, in hospitals and prisons.

‘In a society where people are less likely to worship as regularly as they did in other generations, the public still recognise that there is something special about the sound of a Salvation Army band,’ says ISB bandmaster, Dr Stephen Cobb.

‘That’s why we are often invited to appear on national TV and radio and to produce CDs. Two years ago, for example, the album Together – a collaboration between the ISB and singers Lesley Garrett and Aled Jones – sold a quarter of a million copies and reached No 2 in the Classic FM chart.’

Salvation Army bands are also a regular feature of national events such as Remembrance Day. They are often a Christian presence after national tragedy. The morning after the Hillsborough dis-

aster, for example, a Salvation Army band played at Anfield, as hundreds of Liverpool football supporters went to the ground to grieve.

On a happier note, for many people Christmas simply isn’t Christmas unless – amid the winter snow – they see a Salvation Army band playing carols. The air of favourite carols floating above ringing cash tills is a reminder of the real reason for the season.

The ‘O Come, All Ye Faithful’ message of the band, though, is not just for Christmas. It is also for life.

The heartbeat to which every Salvation Army band member marches is that God sent his Son, Jesus, to die in our place for our sin.

One Bible writer put it like this: ‘God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life’ (John 3:16 New International Version).

There are four steps to knowing eternal life: confess our wrongdoing to God; ask him for forgiveness; believe that the death and resurrection of Jesus are the means by which he saves us; resolve to follow Jesus for the rest of our lives.

The message behind the music is that whoever we are – whatever we have done or had done to us – God wants us to live in harmony with him.

Will we follow the band?

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