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writes LEANNE RUTHVEN New Zealand and Australia contest the Commonwealth Games final in 2010

THEY call football the beautiful game, but beauty is in the eye of the ball holder. From tomorrow (Sunday 3 July), the focus of certain sports lovers will be on Singapore, where the thirteenth World Netball Championships are being held.

Sixteen teams will do battle at this year’s tournament, which will be held at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. From the UK, England, Northern Ireland and Wales will be competing.

If people from Down Under think netball is a beautiful game, it’s hardly surprising. Since the first of the fouryearly World Netball Championships were staged in Eastbourne in 1963, Australia and New Zealand have

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LOVING YOUR NEIGHBOUR

‘KING JAMES BIBLE’ CELEBRATED IN SCOTLAND

Professor backs impact of religion on communities RELIGIOUS people are ‘better neighbours and citizens’ than others, said a Harvard social sciences professor on a visit to London.

Bible Society

HUNDREDS of people gathered at Edinburgh Castle to be among the first to write verses in a digital Bible. Among the people who took part in the launch of The People’s Bible was Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs, Fiona Hyslop (pictured).

The Scottish Bible Society and Bible Society of England and Wales are taking digital tablets to places in the UK and inviting people to use a digital pen to write at least two verses, which will be uploaded to the internet.

The project commemorates the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible.

At the end of the project a paper copy of the Bible will also be created.

For more information visit thepeoplesbible.org

MIDDLE EAST PEACE PLAN

Refugees ‘are the key to solution’ THE needs of Palestinian refugees must be urgently addressed by both sides in Middle East peace negotiations, says a new report from Christian Aid. In Locked Out: Palestinian Refugees and the Key to Peace the development agency argues that if they are not, peace between Israelis and Palestinians will not become a reality.

During the Arab-Israeli war that preceded the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, thousands of Palestinians either fled or were forced to flee their homes. Many sought sanctuary in neighbouring countries.

Christian Aid, which works among

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The professor said: ‘Religious people are more likely to give money to good causes, and not just to religious causes – religious people are also more likely than secular people to give to secular causes. The same is true for volunteering.’

According to the professor’s findings, theology or denomination makes no difference to how ‘nice’ people are. He said: ‘It’s all about the frequency with which you are engaged in your religious community.’

The Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks, also addressed the seminar, saying that evolutionary biologists and mathematicians had worked out that altruism is a vital part of human development.

He argued that Britain and Europe had put too much store by power and wealth, while ignoring ‘social goods such as love and trust and friendship’.

He said: ‘You can still find some strong reservoirs of connectedness and altruism in our religious communities.

Theology is a very interesting subject, but religion actually makes a difference in the world by joining us to others and sanctifying our altruism.’

Canon honoured CANON Andrew White – the clergyman popularly dubbed the ‘Vicar of Baghdad’ – has been announced as the winner of the International First Freedom Award for 2011.

Canon White is the Anglican vicar of St George’s Church in the Iraqi capital, which provides spiritual and physical help in a community that suffers regular rocket and bomb attacks. He tries to build bridges between people from various sides of sectarian divides.

Randolph Bell, the president of the First Freedom Centre, said Canon White had been unanimously selected ‘because of all he has done to advance religious freedom’.

On hearing the news that he had been chosen, Canon White said: ‘I am truly touched and rather surprised.’

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An interview with Canon Andrew White about his work in Baghdad will be featured in next week’s issue of The War Cry.

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refugees in the region, says that the peace process must end the forced displacement of Palestinians while giving Israelis assurances of their security.

At a seminar on the subject of community, held by the Council for Christians and Jews, Professor Robert Putnam spoke of his research in America which had revealed that ‘the more often you go to church or religious services, the more likely you are to behave more neighbourly’.

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between them won every single tournament. The only other team to have tasted victory were Trinidad and Tobago, who were joint winners with Australia and New Zealand in 1979.

The fierce New Zealand-Australia rivalry is likely to come to the fore again, as the teams are ranked first and second in the world. They are followed in the rankings by England, Jamaica, Fiji and South Africa.

Karen Atkinson, co-captain of the England national netball team, has 100 international caps. She plays either centre or wing attack – which, in footy parlance, are midfielder positions. Like any top athlete, Karen is focused and thrives on the challenges her chosen sport presents. When asked on the World Netball Championships website about advice for ‘aspiring midfielders’, she says: ‘Keep working hard – particularly on the basic skills.’

Ah yes, the basic skills. Catching the ball. Pivoting. Throwing it properly. If you’re a defender, keeping your opponent from getting into the game. If you’re a shooter, getting the ball through the ring.

Basketball may be a whole new ball game, but the advice given to Danny Zuko (John Travolta) in the film Grease still rings true. ‘Just dribble the ball; put it in the basket,’ said the coach. (But, whatever you do, don’t dribble it in netball.)

We’re not really in a position to know whether Jesus was ever into sport, but he did know a thing or two about the basics of life.

Love God and love each other, he said. Forgive instead of taking revenge.

Share what you have. Look after the poor.

It might sound simple, but living like that is not always straightforward. We tend to focus on what we can get from life instead of what we can give. It’s less complicated to keep to ourselves than to invest our time, energy and emotion in the lives of those around us. And it’s easier to hold a grudge than to forgive.

Living as Jesus said may not be easy but, with God’s help, it is possible – and it’s a goal worth having.

When the world’s top netball teams step on the court in Singapore it won’t be a nifty kit or vocal supporters that will make the difference between winning and losing. It will be their mastery of the basics. They won’t settle for anything less than top form.

And why would we?

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I was consumed disorder HELENA WILKINSON tells Claire Brine

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F you are not going to take me, God, then you need to help me get better,’ said Helena Wilkinson, who – when she was 16 years old – went into hospital with anorexia. She weighed just five and a half stone.

Twenty-five years later, Helena remains, in her own words, ‘completely recovered’. Today, she speaks at conferences, schools and churches in the UK and overseas, sharing her story and teaching people how to tackle their own eating disorders.

As well as writing books on the subject – including her autobiography Puppet on a String – Helena runs residential courses for eating disorder sufferers at Nicholaston House in Gower, Swansea. People struggling with anorexia, bulimia and compulsive eating have been changed by attending the courses.

‘We teach people about the physical, emotional and spiritual consequences of their eating disorders,’ she explains, ‘and focus on topics such as nutrition, confidence-building, emotional responses to food and how people can find their self-worth in Jesus. Some of the helpers are people who have recovered from their own eating disorders.

‘Many of those who attend the courses have been through various treatments for their eating disorders, haven’t got any better and have given up hope. They come to us because they sense our course is something different.

‘A person’s eating disorder is their coping mechanism.

They use it to help them deal with the pains of life. My job is to teach them a new way of communicating their emotions.

They are encouraged to talk

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pretended I was eating when I wasn’t.

‘I hated the way I looked. I remember crying in front of the mirror and counting my ribs. I wanted to get rid of every ounce of fat. At this point I was living on cottage cheese, salad and apples.’

At 16, Helena was admitted to hospital. She felt like a failure and suffered with depression.

‘I wasn’t a Christian but I knew there was a God,’ she says. ‘When I prayed for him to end my life or make me better, I felt a change take place in my body. I was still terrified of eating, but I let go of some of my control.’

After three months, Helena was allowed to leave hospital. She was still very underweight and ruled by anorexia.

Three years later, she attended a Christian youth camp where her life took a turn for the better.

‘I discovered that I didn’t have to be perfect, because Jesus loved me anyway,’ she says. ‘I suddenly felt as though I belonged. I gave my life to Jesus and made the choice not to abuse my body any more.’

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about their feelings rather than express them through eating patterns.’

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elena remembers one sufferer who, on attending the course, instantly recovered from her anorexia.

But such results are rare. From her own experience, Helena understands that recovery tends to be a process. Eating disorders take time to develop and it can take time to overcome them.

‘My own struggle with anorexia began when I was 13,’ she says. ‘But I think the seeds of why it developed were

planted before then. As a baby, I was in hospital a lot and hence often separated from my mother. Then, I was found to have nystagmus – an eye condition which means I am registered as partially sighted. Family life was not always easy. I was abused. At boarding school I was badly bullied.

‘I was desperately unhappy and lonely. I thought I took up too much space and so I wanted to shrink my body.

I started eating less. I set myself rules, such as: “You have to run so many laps For more round the hockey pitch before you can information visit helenawilkinson.co.uk have a biscuit.” I became deceitful and

I thought I took up too much space

etting go of anorexia wasn’t easy.

At 19, Helena wrote about her experiences in Puppet on a String.

When the book was published she was, she says, ‘thrown into the world of helping other sufferers’.

‘Hundreds of people wrote to me. I’d meet with and pray for them but after 18 months of supporting sufferers I felt overwhelmed,’ she says. ‘Thinking there weren’t any anorexics in rural Africa, I ran away to work for a Christian psychiatrist in Zululand.

‘While I was there, he experienced his first case of anorexia in a 16-year-old girl. I ended up speaking about eating disorders across South Africa. When I returned to the UK, I decided to train in counselling.’

Instead of letting anorexia control her life, today Helena commits her time to helping other sufferers. She tells them that no matter how they feel about themselves, God feels differently.

‘God’s Son, Jesus, came to earth to help people whose lives are broken,’ she says. ‘He grieves to see us in pain. His desire is that we turn to him so we can find freedom and wholeness. To understand that we are made in God’s image – that we have an essence of him in us – is a privilege.’

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Wresting peace

Schools threatened

THE Guardian’s obituary of peace campaigner Brian Haw, who died last month, commented on his Christian faith.

According to the paper, Mr Haw – who in 2001 took up residence in London’s Parliament Square to protest against the effects of British sanctions on Iraq – ‘was guided by his fervent Christian beliefs’. His protest later THE Church of England broadened its scope to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. is at risk of being driven

Clean-up boosts missionary image THE Queen attended a special service at St Paul’s Cathedral to celebrate the building’s 300th anniversary and the completion of its restoration, reported The Daily Telegraph.

According to the paper, the transformation and cleaning of the cathedral cost £40 million. The building had been covered by scaffolding for the past 15 years.

Martin Stancliffe, who oversaw the project, said: ‘The driving intention of the whole project has been how to make the cathedral act as the real missionary for the Church – to make the building speak as clearly and as openly as it can to everybody who comes through the door.’

Fees to rise THE fee charged by vicars for conducting a wedding ceremony in a church is set to rise by almost 50 per cent, reported the Daily Mail.

According to the paper, the aim of the change is to ensure that churches across the country all charge the same rate of £425.

Currently the standard charge of a wedding ceremony is £284, but couples have to pay more for the marriage certificate and reading of the banns.

The fee for funerals is also set to increase from £102 to £150.

out of public education by government reforms and teachers ignorant of the Christian faith, said a senior cleric who was quoted in The Daily Telegraph.

The Bishop of Oxford, the Right Rev John Pritchard, is concerned that church schools could be threatened by the introduction of changes to the curriculum.

‘The changed rationale and growth of academies requires action now to ensure the survival of our provision,’ he said.

PETROC TRELAWNY presents BBC Radio 3 Live in

Concert from Tewkesbury Abbey on Wednesday (6 July 7.30 pm).

The Magdalena Consort – a chamber ensemble of singers and instrumentalists – and director and baritone Peter Harvey pay tribute to composer J. S. Bach.

The programme features Bach’s Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben with its chorale ‘Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring’.

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To many people he was an irritant reminder of a politically inconvenient truth – that in the name of democracy innocent people are killed. Some, shielded by their ministerial limos, ignored him. Others schemed to remove him, by fair means and foul.

In 2005, the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act – ‘Haw’s law’ – banned all public protest within a kilometre of Parliament. Having already been protesting continuously on the same spot for years, Haw went for a judicial review – and won.

Shortly after that victory, he gave an interview to The War Cry in which he described how he’d had his nose broken three times by those who wanted him out of the way.

He also said that it was his Christian faith that kept him going despite the challenges: ‘I’ve been called “stubborn”.

But [my motivation is] about something more than that. I believe this is something God wants me to do. I’m a Jesus Christian. There is only one type of Christian in the Bible. If you’re born again, you are a Christian. ‘“Christian” means what Jesus would do. Would Jesus bomb a single baby?

Love your neighbour’s child as you love your own. That’s Christianity.’

Sleeping rough, Brian Haw knew nothing about comfortable pews. He conducted his Christianity from a picnic chair on a noisy, windswept, fumechoked traffic island.

That it challenged the complacent, irritated the authorities and alienated the comfortable should come as no surprise. Peacemakers get caught in the crossfire. They will also, Jesus promised, be called the children of God.

Peace campaigner dies

Brian Haw keeping vigil in Parliament Square

IN THE PRESS

A LONDON landmark is no more.

Parliament Square’s peace campaigner Brian Haw has died. The 3,000-plus days and nights on the streets have taken their toll.

Known for his vociferous opposition to the UK’s part in the sanctions against and invasion of Iraq – ‘45 minutes, Mr Bliar’ was one of his choicer megaphoned slogans – Mr Haw started his kerbside vigil in June 2001.

PRESENTER Brian D’Arcy explores how

Jesus served those around him and the ways in which people can help others in Sunday Half Hour tomorrow (Sunday 3 July 8.30 pm).

The Renaissance Singers of Blackburn are the featured choir.

Hymns include ‘All Creatures of Our God and King’ and ‘Jesus Calls Us; O’er the Tumult’.

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SENIOR

A living wall provides greenery

be discounted, as anyone who is keen to get their fingers dirty can improve their environment.

Summer is a great time of year to get out to the garden centre or nursery. A trip there will give you lots of ideas as to what you could try in your garden. It is great fun to look at all the vibrant colours and smell the heady perfume of beautiful English roses.

Many people buy plants on impulse and then find they don’t have suitable space for them when they get home.

Instead of making that mistake, take a look at your own garden before you set off. Is it lacking colour, perfume or height? Perhaps a shady corner is looking a bit bare. With that in mind, you can target the problem by getting the right plant and not wasting your money.

space and AS the world becomes more crowded, ingenious people are using any available means to get gardening.

For generations, gardeners worldwide have used wires and trellis and various methods of support for traditional climbing plants. Often harsh, steepsided walls and structures have been dismissed as unsuitable. However, the idea

of ‘living walls’ questions that by creating greenery where there is no obvious right for any to be there.

Plants can be grown either on the wall itself, or in specially built modules and structures and then attached.

Living walls, although not a new idea, are one of the latest trends within horticultural circles. In urban areas, plants can reduce the Nip out sid e s temperature of south-facing h o o ts tomatoes of cordon a buildings that are otherwise bush varie s they form, leavin g ti prone to getting too hot. twice a w es alone. Feed onc the e They are also suitable for feed. Che ek with a high-pota e or c s using recycled water and formed po k peas daily for new h ds. ly encouraging wildlife into otherwise concrete jungles.

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time of year, suchATasthismany biennials foxgloves can produce masses of free seeds. It is easy to collect the seed yourself and sow them now for a wonderful display early next summer. Some of the colours may be different and unexpected as a result of crosspollination, and it’s very exciting to find out what you’ve got. Best of all, this costs nothing.

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Brain power Dr Coles, you have done some work with people who have expressed religious experiences while living with certain neurological conditions. Could you explain that please?

It has been known for a long time that if your brain is damaged, then your personality changes. Part of our personality is our faith and the way we express it. It is not too surprising then that if you damage your brain, your faith life might be affected as well.

I have been working with people who have temporal lobe epilepsy.

People with this form of epilepsy report experiences that look and sound just like a spiritual experience that you might have in an authentic worship context. They feel at peace. They feel calm. They sense that God is with them as a loving presence. They sense their life has meaning, a plan and purpose.

These sensations last for a few minutes and then go.

I got into this area of study because, as a neurologist, I was asked to see patients who were having these sensations and who wanted to know whether or not they were authentic religious experiences.

Having observed patients with temporal lobe epilepsy and concluded that the sensations are not authentically religious, some observers say that this means all religious sensations are fake.

I disagree. It is illogical to conclude this. During epileptic seizures some people feel very frightened. Does this mean that in everyday life fear is not real? Of course not. Fear is real and it is important to pay attention to it.

Research has found that having a faith is good for mental health. Are all religious thoughts helpful?

People can also have religious psychoses. People with schizophrenia, for example, can think some very bizarre things. If a person comes from a community where religion is important, a strikingly high proportion will have religious psychoses or odd ideas about

Neurologist Dr ALASDAIR COLES of Addenbrooke’s Hospital and Cambridge University talks to Nigel Bovey about his work and his faith INVESTIGATOR: Dr Alasdair Coles has looked at the link between temporal lobe epilepsy and religious experiences

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religion. This includes claiming to be God or Jesus Christ.

The fact is, if your brain is very disturbed it will be disturbed in the areas of life that are most important to you.

It is established that people of faith generally have good physical and mental health. But that doesn’t automatically mean that having a faith will lead you to have good physical and mental health. I don’t evangelise by saying something like: ‘Come to faith and you will be well.’

How does your Christian faith influence the way you approach science and the ethical issues it raises?

My faith has encouraged me to persist in sticking at one or two scientific tasks rather than flitting around, because I want to see an enduring effect of the work I do. On good days, my faith ensures that I keep

my sense of priority about what is important.

As a scientist, how content are you that scientists in the UK have legal permission to work in embryology, particularly with embryonic stem cells, as a way of finding possible cures?

Scientists should do only what the Government and the nation allow. I am not sure, though, that the general public really understand how much is being done with their permission. When Pope John Paul II called the British culture a ‘culture of death’, he was referring not only to the high rates of abortion but also to the country’s attitude to embryonic stem cells and early life.

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He was right. We don’t appropriately value and cherish very early life.

Scientists should be telling the nation what they are doing with the public’s permission, and asking us if we really want them to continue.

The ‘culture of death’ also extends to the end of life. There have been parliamentary attempts to legislate for assisted dying. As someone who treats patients with debilitating diseases, do you think it should be legal for someone to help a loved one take their own life?

It is understandable to argue that it is better for someone to be dead and at peace rather than to be conscious and suffering. But I am completely against assisted suicide because of the message it gives. It says: ‘We give up with you. We give up trying to help you, because you are vulnerable and very dependent.’

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The fact that a person is choosing to die is very important but, to me, it isn’t enough. I want to be someone who brings new hope and new life into a situation where another person can see only darkness and death.

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

The entry route to faith for me was whether or not there was a loving God. For several years, I was an atheist and a materialist who believed that everything could be explained by science. At the back of my mind, though, there was a nagging concern that this was an unsatisfactory explanation for everyday human behaviour and emotions. I therefore concluded that feelings such as love, joy and concern were false.

Then I started reading C. S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity in which he says that there are such things as a sense of justice and a sense of love, and then asks where they come from.

As I read, I found myself agreeing.

Love and justice are real. Reductionism doesn’t explain them. So they must come from outside. They must come from God – a God of love.

I then started reading the Bible. One of the most convincing things to me about the authenticity of the Bible is those few places where the Gospel accounts disagree. I could accept that an account written by real people as best they could, which was a bit raggedy round the edges, described real historical events. It was an indication that the Bible is not contrived – that people didn’t sit down one day and say: ‘Let’s invent Christ.’

Some atheists say that faith compromises the scientific process – that a Christian who is a scientist can’t be a very good scientist. Is this true?

I would want to ask people who say this what they mean when they tell their wife or children ‘I love you’. I am sure they are

My scientific life and faith live happily side by side because they speak to different parts of who I am

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PRAY-ER: everyone’s faith has an element of uncertainty

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genuine when they say it, but there is no scientific test for love. Science is neither equipped nor interested in human emotions, motivations and behaviour. It doesn’t have the right toolkit to investigate.

My scientific life and faith live happily side by side because they speak to different parts of who I am. To some extent, the two realms overlap but they do not conflict.

As well as being a neurologist, in 2008 you were ordained as an Anglican clergyman. How did that come about?

It was an accident. I wanted there to

be a stronger Christian voice in the hospital where I work. Someone suggested I should be ordained. So I went and trained.

There may well have been other ways I could have achieved this, but I felt that as I work in an environment where having a title matters, people might take more notice of me if I were ‘the Reverend’.

I believe it has, in fact, made me a

Being a religious doctor is a bit like an experiment

much more confident Christian in public and is helping a Christian voice to be heard more.

In a way, being a religious doctor and a religious scientist is a bit like an experiment: I don’t know how it’s going to turn out.

But then I think faith is like that.

There’s uncertainty about where my faith is taking my family and me. I think ultimately everyone’s faith has an element of uncertainty about where it will lead them.

To me, part of being a person with faith is allowing yourself to be a bit disorientated and have control taken away – to entrust your life to God.

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WORDSEARCH

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

Look up, down, forwards, backwards and diagonally on the grid to find words associated with netball BALL BIB CAPTAIN CENTRE

QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS 1. Appeal (4) 3. Cut off (3) 5. Counterfeit (4) 7. Grass cutter (9) 9. Entreat (4) 10. Church dignitary (4) 11. Marine mammals (5) 14. Taut (5) 15. Once more (5) 17. Manifest (5) 18. Keyboard instrument (5) 19. Chopping (5) 20. Clear (5) 23. Be sullen (4) 25. Festival (4) 27. Surrounds (9) 28. Puff (4) 29. Man (3) 30. Idle (4)

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HONEYCOMB Each solution starts on the coloured cell and reads clockwise round the number 1. A bone located between the knee and the ankle 2. Type of salad 3. Money received for work 4. Action of forgiving 5. Scattered rubbish DOWN 1. Pageantry (4) 2. Not home (4) 3. Spear (5) 4. Pace stealthily (5) 5. Nourish (4) 6. Famous school (4) 7. Amusing (9) 8. Family members (9) 11. Bend down (5) 12. Stadium (5) 13. Smooth fabric (5) 14. Light knock (3) 16. Horse (3) 21. Recumbent (5) 22. Scratchy (5) 23. Rebuff (4) 24. Comprehend (4) 25. Touch (4) 26. Jealousy (4)

6. Prepare for an examination

QUICK QUIZ 1. What was the chocolate bar Snickers previously called?

2. Which musical starring Fred Astaire includes the song ‘That’s Entertainment’?

3. What is a pullet?

4. Where is Europa Point?

5. What is 2011 in Roman numerals?

6. What name is given to someone who makes and repairs barrels?

QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Plea. 3 Lop. 5 Fake. 7 Lawnmower.

9 Pray. 10 Dean. 11 Seals. 14 Tight. 15 Again.

17 Overt. 18 Piano. 19 Axing. 20 Plain. 23 Sulk.

25 Fête. 27 Encircles. 28 Blow. 29 Guy. 30 Lazy.

DOWN: 1 Pomp. 2 Away. 3 Lance. 4 Prowl.

5 Feed. 6 Eton. 7 Laughable. 8 Relatives. 11 Stoop.

12 Arena. 13 Satin. 14 Tap. 16 Nag. 21 Lying.

22 Itchy. 23 Snub. 24 Know. 25 Feel. 26 Envy.

QUICK QUIZ 1 Marathon. 2 The Band Wagon. 3 A young hen.

4 Gibraltar. 5 MMXI. 6 A cooper.

HONEYCOMB 1 Fibula. 2 Caesar. 3 Income. 4 Pardon. 5 Debris.

6 Revise.

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Head on a

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

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plate IN the film version of Phantom of the Opera, a picture hangs in opera singer Carlotta’s dressing room. It shows her in costume holding a large plate with what seems to be Andrew Lloyd Webber’s head on it. The (fictional) opera which is in rehearsal at the beginning of the film is Hannibal and the head is a trophy of war. It is also a good visual joke for those who know thst Lloyd Webber wrote the musical.

There is a real opera in which a head is served on a plate: Salome by Richard Strauss, which was based on a play written by Oscar Wilde about the death of John the Baptist. Salome is traditionally the name of the young woman who danced so well at a birthday party that she was invited to ask for a special present.

This is how the story is recorded in Matthew’s Gospel. Herod, who was the ruler of Galilee and Perea, had imprisoned John the Baptist because he had told Herod that his marriage to his brother Philip’s wife Herodias was unlawful.

On Herod’s birthday, the daughter of Herodias danced for him and pleased him so much that he told her he would give her anything she wanted.

Prompted by her mother, she said: ‘Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter’ (Matthew 14:8 New Revised Standard Version).

Herod didn’t want to do it, but he

had made a promise in front of his guests and so felt compelled to order that John should be beheaded. The deed was carried out quickly and then ‘Give me here ‘the head was John Baptist’s brought on a platter and given head in a to the girl, who charger’ brought it to her (14:11).

(Matthew 14:8) mother’ Asking for the head of one’s enemy to be presented on a platter (or a charger) was a humiliating finishing touch to a horrible death and has become a phrase denoting a desire

He would give her anything

for revenge on an enemy.

Following Jesus means not taking revenge on enemies but forgiving them. After all, God has forgiven his children so much.

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HANG ON to THE home team was losing 5-0 with just one minute to go. The supporters had long since started to drift away, reflecting on how football can be a cruel game. Sitting in front of me was a fan who said to his mate: ‘Shall we go now?’

Without a moment’s hesitation his chum protested sharply: ‘Not likely. There might be extra time.’

How’s that for loyalty! His hope was, though, misplaced. League matches don’t have 30 minutes’ extra time. (How many football teams would have loved more time in their last match of the season to avoid the drop to a lower division?)

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Abraham ‘believed and hoped, even when there was no reason for hoping’ (Romans 4:18 Good News Bible). God told Abraham he would become a father, even though he and his wife were very old.

But it happened and Isaac was born.

Hope can be summed up in these anonymous lines: I believe in the sun even when it is not shining.

I believe in love even when I cannot feel it.

I believe in God even when he is silent.

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Confidence and hope are important components of life but they are not to be mistaken for vain or false hopes.

A seasick passenger lying listlessly on his deckchair stopped a passing steward. Pointing to the distance, he said: ‘Over there, it’s land, isn’t it?’

‘No, sir,’ replied the steward. ‘It’s the horizon.’

‘Never mind,’ sighed the passenger. ‘It’s better than nothing.’

Hope as described in the Bible is no idle pipe dream, no product of wishful thinking, no fatalistic acceptance or stoical resignation.

Rather, hope means to look forward with joyful expectation.

It is written that the Bible figure

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WHAT’S COOKING? FOR STARTERS

Cheddar and bacon stuffed baby potatoes

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Ingredients: 20 medium-sized new potatoes 4 rashers lean smoked back bacon 125g West Country farmhouse Cheddar, grated 50g butter Pinch of salt Pinch of ground black pepper Pinch of nutmeg 1tbsp extra virgin olive oil Sprigs of oregano or flat leaf parsley, to garnish Method: Simmer the potatoes until just tender. Grill the bacon until it turns crisp, then cut into small pieces.

Cut the tops off each potato, then use a small sharp knife to scoop out the flesh. If necessary, cut thin strips off the potato bases so that the potatoes can stand upright.

Use a fork to combine the potato flesh with the butter and cheese. Season well, then stir in the bacon.

Spoon the bacon filling into the potato shells, then top with the potato lids.

Brush the potatoes liberally with the olive oil. Place in a baking dish lined with baking parchment and cook at 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6 until the filling is golden and the cheese oozing.

Garnish with the oregano or parsley, and serve warm.

Makes 20

Warm bean salad with British Brie Ingredients: 225g Somerset Brie 900g baby new potatoes 175g fine green beans, trimmed Finely grated zest and juice of 1 lemon 2tbsp virgin olive oil 2tbsp chopped fresh parsley 2tbsp capers, rinsed 12 black or green olives Mixed salad leaves Salt and freshly ground black pepper Method: Remove the cheese from the fridge and allow it to reach room temperature. Cook the potatoes

in lightly salted boiling water for 15–20 minutes. At the same time cook the green beans in a little lightly salted water for 4–5 minutes.

Meanwhile whisk the lemon zest and juice with the olive oil and parsley in a large serving bowl.

Stir in the capers and olives, then season with a little salt and plenty of black pepper.

Add the green beans and potatoes to the olive dressing and leave to cool for about 10 minutes. Add the salad leaves. Cut the cheese into chunks, add them to the salad, then toss everything together until mixed. Serve immediately.

Serves 4

Recipes reprinted, with kind permission, from the British Cheese Board website britishcheese.com

SUDOKU SOLUTION

It’s an open and shut case writes RENÉE DAVIS

career – his actions are always on behalf of people who need him.

Maybe he is just misunderstood.

Many people can sympathise with how that feels. Sometimes others don’t understand what and how we’re trying to help a person in need.

Jesus was often surrounded by people crying out for help. They knew what he could do. They believed he could heal them or restore their lives.

But, not understanding where Jesus was coming from (or going), many people accused him of being a Luther is brilliant at his job. As a fake, a liar and a criminal, and called result he is constantly for his death. threatened and blackMany people detect mailed by criminals. the truth about him in the They know he can get Bible’s words: ‘He was them what they want. crushed for our iniquiHe will Luther is also kind, ties; the punishment that and will do what it forgive us brought us peace was takes to protect people upon him, and by his – he will even break the law. He wounds we are healed’ (Isaiah 53:5 comes to the aid of troubled sex New International Version). worker, Jenny. Having bent the rules On the cross, Jesus – who did no to help her, he tells her: ‘I’ve done wrong – paid the penalty for our enough.’ Yet despite his efforts to wrongdoing. If we come clean and stay away, he returns to assist her confess our sin, he will forgive us again. Because of his unorthodox and give us a new kind of life – a life ways, Luther has a reputation as a with God that will last for ever. ‘dirty cop’.

When we turn to him, he takes all Luther, though, never does any- our offences and declares: Case thing questionable to further his own closed.

DETECTIVE Chief Inspector John Luther is back. In this second series of Luther – the BBC One crime drama – the man has two disturbing cases to solve, while trying to cope with his own problems.

With his old unit gone, Luther has been recruited to the new Serious and Serial Unit. Old partner Justin Ripley and new arrival Erin Gray join him in his mission to catch the baddies.

John Luther (Idris Elba) tries to help sex worker Jenny Jones (Aimee-Ffion Edwards)

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