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FIGHTING FOR HEARTS AND SOULS

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FIFTY YEARS OF A TIME LORD

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A CHRISTIAN has been released from prison in Iran after a successful appeal against his ten-year prison sentence. The human rights campaign group Christian Solidarity Worldwide said that Mostafa Bordbar, who was arrested along with other Christians during a Christmas celebration in 2012, had been accused of being a member of an anti-security organisation and gathering with intent to commit crimes against Iranian national security. An appeal court cleared him of all charges.

YOUR prayers are requested for Ali, who is in prison.

The War Cry invites readers to send in requests for prayer, including the names of individuals and details of their circumstances. Send your requests to PRAYERLINK, The War Cry, 101 Newington Causeway, Lon don SE1 6BN. Mark your envelope ‘Confidential’.

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There is no set formula to becoming a Christian, but many people have found saying this prayer to be a helpful first step to a relationship with God.

Lord Jesus Christ,I am truly sorry for the things I have done wrong in my life. Please forgive me. I now turn from everything that I know is wrong.Thank you that you died on the cross for me so that I could be forgiven and set free.Thank you that you offer me forgiveness and the gift of your Holy Spirit.Please come into my life by your Holy Spirit to be with me for ever.Thank you, Lord Jesus. Amen

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SALVATION Army churches quickly distributed all their supplies of food after Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines.

After the typhoon passed, Salvation Army teams began conducting assessments of what help was needed in communities not only in the city of Tacloban and Leyte Island but also in the towns and villages of Antique Province. The Salvation Army believes that, because of the logistical difficulties of getting supplies to Tacloban, its first large-scale response to the disaster will be in Antique, where it aims to provide food to 4,710 families.

Damaris Frick of the organisation’s London-based International Emergency Services has flown to the Philippines to help local centres with their response to the disaster.

Anyone wishing to support The Salvation Army’s relief work can make a donation by calling 0800 473 0088 or visiting salvationarmy.org.uk/Philippines-Disaster-Appeal

Supplies and service given in the Philippines

SALVATION ARMY RESPONDS TO TYPHOON HAIYAN

A PRODUCTION of Bible plays in York won the Tourism Event of the Year category at Yorkshire’s White Rose Awards. The York Mystery Plays, which took place in York Museum Gardens last year was staged by York Theatre Royal and Christian-based company Riding Lights, supported by a cast and crew of hundreds of amateurs.

More than 30,000 people went to see the plays, which told Bible stories from Creation to the Last Judgment.

Mystery plays win White Rose Award

Iranian Christian freed from prison

MP visits Army job centreMEG HILLIER, MP, met people searching for work when she visited The Salvation Army’s Employment Plus project at Hoxton. The Labour MP for Hackney South and Shoreditch also spoke with members of the Salvation Army team at the centre, who help job-seekers with forms, offer basic IT teaching courses and provide a range of other services. Ms Hillier said: ‘It has been rewarding to hear from people who came to The Salvation Army for help in searching for work and who have had such great support.’

Meg Hillier MP meets job-seeker Stephen Yoxall

A Salvationist distributes water to people stranded at Tacloban airport

THE annual Christian

arts festival Greenbelt is moving to a new venue next year. Organisers of the event have announced that after 15 years in Cheltenham, the festival will take place at Boughton House near Kettering.

HIT US drama The Bible is to begin on Channel 5 next Saturday (30 November). The Emmy-nominated five-part series – which covers the Bible from Genesis to Revelation – begins with Noah telling his children the stories of Creation.

The first episode also includes the stories of Cain and Abel, Abraham and Moses.

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By PHILIP HALCROW

Three generations of the Time Lord – Matt Smith, David Tennant and John Hurt

Professor Brian Cox presenter of ‘The Science of Doctor Who’

We’re affected by the kind of time that requires us to choose

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Followers of the Doctor will probably spend their immediate future – well, this evening (Saturday 23 November) – watching a 75-minute special on BBC One. In Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor, Matt Smith, David Tennant and John Hurt will appear as the Time Lord. The episode was preceded by a mini-adventure, The Night of the Doctor, which the BBC released online.

Some anniversary events are examining other aspects of Doctor Who. A celebration at London’s ExCeL is offering visitors the chance to see ‘stunts, explosions, monsters, props and costumes’.

A one-off BBC Two drama An Adventure in Space and Time told the story of how Doctor Who was first put on the screen in 1963. And a week earlier on the same channel, Professor Brian Cox looked at the series from a different angle when he presented The Science of Doctor Who. In a lecture at the Royal

Institution, the physicist set out some of the real science behind ideas about the nature of space and time.

He showed how, over time, humankind’s concept of time has changed. Drawing on the ideas and experiments of scientists such as Albert Einstein, he showed that ‘there’s no such thing as absolute time’ but that – as the ‘r’ in the acronym Tardis indicates – it is relative. As a result of the interaction of space and time, said Brian, ‘we are all time travellers in our own small way’.

The subject of time comes up again in a book which explores another dimension of Doctor Who over its 50 years.

Time and Relative Dimensions in Faith, edited by academics Andrew Crome and James McGrath, analyses the way in which the series has handled religious themes such as faith, mercy, divinity and judgment. One contributor offers some further meanings of time.

Michael Charlton says that, while sometimes in the Bible the word ‘time’ simply indicates the passing of hours, days, months or years, at other times it indicates a decisive moment which has the potential to alter everything.

‘Time in Doctor Who is mostly conceptualised as chronological or historical,’ he writes, but the Doctor has a mixed record when it comes to the kind of time that entails crisis and decision.

However the Doctor approaches time, the Bible suggests that we are all affected by the kind of time that requires us to choose – because we are all living through the repercussions of an event at a crucial point in time.

One Bible writer declared: ‘While we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly’ (Romans 5:6 New Revised Standard Version).

Through Jesus, God revealed the extent of his love for all people; that he offered them forgiveness for when they had put other people – and themselves – through dark experiences; that he would show them how to discover a full life that would last for eternity.

It is still true today and, across time, it confronts us with a choice to make. Will we put our trust in God’s love for us – and see a new dimension of life?

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DAVID MORGAN has a confession to make: ‘I would never have asked The

Salvation Army to give me a job as a prison chaplain, but now that I’m doing it, I wouldn’t give it up.’

Salvation Army minister Major Morgan works in three prisons in the North of England – a men’s prison, a wom-en’s prison and a young offender institution. He explains his duties.

‘There are certain statutory duties which a chaplain must carry out every day. First, I visit every offender who has entered the prison the day before – whether it’s their first time inside or not. I give them a diary, an information leaflet about chaplaincy, a puzzle book and a copy of The War Cry to read.

‘In the young offender institution, I also give them an autobiography of someone who has been to prison and managed to turn their life around, just to show the young people that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

‘I then ask a few gen-eral questions about a prisoner’s wellbeing and their family and check that we have recorded their religion correctly.

‘The second duty is to visit every prisoner on the hospital wing. Prisoners end up there because they are sick and need medical care, because they have deliberately harmed themselves or because they are struggling with their mental health. I make sure I spend time talking with them and listening.

‘My final task is to visit the segregation block. Offenders are sent there either because they have broken prison discipline or because they have requested personal protection. Again, I take in a copy of The War Cry for them to read and have a chat.’

Once David has completed his statutory duties, he spends time with any prisoners who have requested a one-to-one meeting with him, or with those who have been referred to him by prison staff. He provides a listening ear

To mark Prisons Week (17–23 November), prison chaplain DAVID MORGAN tells Claire Brine how he has seen prisoners turn their lives around

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for anyone living in or working on the prison site.‘Most people are happy to talk to one of the chap-

laincy team, because they know we are confidential and independent,’ David says. ‘We don’t make it our busi-ness to know what crimes people have committed. Our job is not to judge, but to come alongside people and support them.’

As part of the chaplaincy team, David leads Sunday services in the chapel and runs other faith-based events, such as the Alpha course. For those who have lost loved ones, there is also a bereavement course.

‘When a prisoner is unable to go to the funeral of their friend or relative, we hold a memorial service in the chapel for them, to help them cope,’ he says.

In the four years he has worked as a prison chaplain, David has seen many offenders become Christians. He sees his role as being ‘a mouthpiece for God’.

‘It is often in prison that God speaks and people listen,’ he says. ‘Outside, there are so many distractions and God doesn’t get a word in edgeways. But inside a prison, he does. When I see individuals finding salvation, it feels brilliant.’

David explains that if an offender becomes a Christian, the chaplaincy team tries to link them with a church on their release.

‘In my role, I am not allowed to have contact with offenders once they have left prison,’ he says. ‘So I try to help people before they are released, by connecting them to a church, or linking them with a Christian rehab centre if that’s appropriate. We remind offenders that they can write to us after their release, to let us know how they are getting on.’

When offenders leave prison, David hopes they won’t return. Some go on to rebuild their lives, free from crime. Others end up back inside. But David continues to believe that no prisoner is beyond hope.

‘I believe in transformation,’ he says. ‘I also believe that God forgives. And if God can forgive my sins, then he can forgive others. How can I turn to a prisoner and say: “Oh sorry, my sins are forgiven, but yours aren’t?” It doesn’t work like that.

‘One day, the prisoners and I will stand side by side before God, each of us having done things wrong. I believe that, whatever our problems, God is with us. He holds us and is able to work in and through us.’

IN its coverage of the death of John Tavener, The Guardian

reported that the composer had once said: ‘I wanted to produce music that was the sound of God.’

Tom Service wrote that ‘Tavener’s turn to a world of spirituality, via the Russian Orthodox Church, was the inspiration for much of his music of the late 1970s onwards, and it pro-

duced a whole series of works of celestial simplicity.’

He noted: ‘When Tavener’s “Song for Athene” was sung at Diana, Princess of Wales’s funeral in 1997, the music’s haunting austerity was a lightning conductor for the grief of the watching millions. When his cello concerto, The Protecting Veil, was premiered at the Proms in 1989 … Steve Isserlis’s playing transported the audience into a realm of mystical contemplation.’

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WITH Remembrance Day reduced to a memory, attention focuses on the future. The day after the two minutes’ silence, London’s Oxford Street was a riot of noise for the switching on of the Christmas lights. Outdoor skating-rinks are open for business. Late-night shopping is now in full swing.

To suggest that the next four weeks will – or should be – anything different, would be as effective and insightful as trying to stem an incoming tide. King Canute, so often pilloried for trying to do so, did, in all probability, no such thing. Canute’s seaside adventure was his way of showing that even the highest power in the land has limitations and that ultimate power belongs to God.

Just as the Canute legend is widely misunderstood, so the essence of Christmas can be lost in translation. With a cast and audience to satisfy, appointments to meet, disappointments to avoid, expectations and excitations to fulfil, the next 30-odd days will be among the most stressful of the year.

RewardThose for whom Christmas means

throwing the best party, having the newest three-piece suite or giving the most expensive present will reap what they sow. Those who interpret Christmas as an occasion to act on behalf of those less fortunate will likewise receive their reward.

Ultimately, though, neither the giving of presents to loved ones nor of time to perfect strangers is the point or the plot of the original Christmas story.

The biblical narrative is as much a story of human failure as it is of divine intervention. Over the coming weeks, we may well find ourselves asking: Why the rush? Why send them a card? Why can’t they cook Christmas dinner?

Why Christmas? Because humankind is powerless to stem the tide of selfishness and rebellion against its Creator. That’s why God gave his Son, Jesus Christ – to save us from reaping from the sin that we sow.

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ARCHAEOLOGIST Peter Ginn visits a monastic bakehouse in BBC Two’s Tudor Monastery Farm next Wednesday (27 November 9 pm).

The presenter explores how flour is ground in a Tudor-style windmill to make three types of bread – unleavened Communion bread for use in church, fine white bread for the abbot and a coarser wholemeal bread for the monks.

Meanwhile, fellow archaeologist and presenter Tom Pinfold helps some monastic bee-keepers to produce wax, used to make church candles.

IN an ITV interview with financial expert Martin Lewis, the Archbishop of Canterbury said that the pressure to buy expensive presents at Christmas ‘spoils life’ for people.

Speaking on The Martin Lewis Money Show: 12 Saves of Christmas, the Most Rev Justin Welby suggested that people’s ‘over the top-ness’ with festive spending is ‘ridiculous’.

The Archbishop said: ‘It’s absurd. It shouldn’t happen. It puts pressure on relationships, because when you’re short

of money you argue. You get cross with your kids more easily. It spoils life.’

Newspapers reported on the interview with the Archbishop, quoting his words: ‘Giving at Christmas reflects the generosity of God. So be generous in a way that shows love and affection rather than trying to buy love and affection.’

Daily Express columnist Vanessa Feltz commented on the Archbishop’s ‘common sense’.

She wrote: ‘The Archbishop would like us to rein in the acquisition, stop attempting to fill our spiritual void with hauls of swag and instead simmer down to “share love and affection with reasonable gifts that demonstrate you really care for someone”. He sounds like such a switched-on decent guy.’

History team goes back to the Tudors

PEOPLE following The Salvation Army’s New Testament Bible Challenge

are reading the whole New Testament, five chapters a week, over the course of a year. For each day’s reading plan and discussion notes visit salvationarmy.org.uk/biblechallenge

Tom Pinfold, Ruth Goodman and Peter Ginn on ‘Tudor Monastery Farm’

premium cash payment to invest in their community, enabling them to buy everything from school books to solar panels.’

Tesco is the only supermarket stocking the calendar. At least 10p from every sale will be donated to the Children’s Society.

The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, says: ‘The Real Advent Calendar offers a unique way to share the Christmas story while supporting the Children’s Society and Fairtrade. I believe

it will be widely welcomed. The Real Advent Calendar is a chance to educate, stimulate our thinking and do good.’

The calendar also supports the Christmas Starts with Christ campaign, which aims to reverse the trend of Christ being written out of Christmas. The campaign runs from 1 December to Christmas Day and encourages individuals, churches, schools and groups to buy a Real Advent Calendar and spread the true meaning of Christmas.

For more information visit meaningfulchocolate.co.uk

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The Bishop of Truro, the Right Rev Tim Thornton, with the Real Advent Calendar

YES, it’s that time of year again. Buying presents for loved ones and preparing a Christmas dinner can be an expensive business, but there is still time to get finances in order before the festivities kick in.

Here are a few pre-Christmas money-saving tips from parenting website Netmums.com

THE true meaning of Christmas is fading. According to a survey by ComRes, only 12 per cent of adults know the full nativity story, while 72 per cent of children aged five to seven don’t know that Jesus was born in Bethlehem. The Meaningful Chocolate Company is aiming to put that right. This year, it has launched the Real Advent Calendar, which puts Jesus at the centre of Christmas.

Behind each of the calendar’s windows is a chocolate star and a line from the biblical account of Jesus’ birth. The final window reveals a chocolate star and an illustrated, 24-page booklet of the nativity story.

The card used to make the calendar is recycled and the plastic tray, which contains the treats, is made from recycled mineral water bottles. The treats are Fairtrade Belgian chocolate.

‘Farmers in the developing world receive a good price for their produce,’ explains David Marshall, owner of the Meaningful Chocolate Company. ‘They also receive a

• Be internet-savvy. Get familiar with voucher code websites that tell you about discounts available at online retailers. They allow you to access a shopping code which you give at the checkout to get a discount – this might be money off or free delivery. Take a look at the discount codes on the website moneysavingexpert.co.uk and special offers on hotukdeals.co.uk

• Write a list and stick to it. Make a list of gifts and carry it with you. Tick things off as you buy them so you don’t buy the same thing twice. If you know exactly what you’ve bought, you won’t

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overspend on additional things you see while shopping. Internet shopping can also help you avoid temptation. You are less likely to be carried away online than when you step into a ‘winter wonderland’ shopping mall with offers at every corner.

• Save on food shopping. Shop-bought mince pies and fancy stuffings might seem like a good idea and save you some time, but they won’t taste as good as home-made items. Mince pies can be frozen, so make a batch in advance and defrost when needed.

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EVERYONE – says Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – has the

right to ‘freedom of thought, conscience and religion’. Last year, a group of MPs and peers got together to tackle the fact that this aspect of the Universal Declaration is not being universally put into practice. Six months ago, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on International Religious Freedom produced its first report, highlighting how people around the world are suffering because of their religious beliefs or rejection of them.

Globally, freedom of thought, conscience and religion is in a bad state, says the chair of the new group, Baroness Berridge. ‘The Pew Research Foundation in America has said that almost 75 per cent of the world’s seven billion people live in countries with high levels of government restrictions on freedom of belief or where they face high levels of hostility because of their religious affiliations.

‘It is becoming more and more apparent that people are being persecuted on the grounds of their religion. Recent events in Pakistan, such as the suicide bombing of a church in Peshawar, show how the Christian community there is facing intense hostility, as is the Shia

Believe itor notAround the world, people are being attacked and imprisoned because of their faith. BARONESS BERRIDGE tells Philip Halcrow why a new all-party parliamentary group wants all countries to give people the freedom to choose their religion

Muslim community. In Burma, the Rohingya Muslims are suffering persecution. There is an atheist in prison in Indonesia. The situation in North Korea is dire for people of any kind of faith.’

The Conservative peer was one of a number of parliamentarians who decided to turn their attention to freedom of religion as a human right. ‘There were a lot of all-party groups looking at lots of issues,’ she says, ‘but there wasn’t a group looking at this one.’

There is now.‘We want to focus on life, limb and liberty. There

has been a lot of discussion at international institutional level about blasphemy and hate speech, but what we are focusing on is that people are dying because of their faith, people are in prison because of their beliefs.’

The group launched its first report at the Houses of Parliament in June. Article 18: an Orphaned Right cites instances where people have not been allowed to hold and freely practise their religious beliefs, whether through a government’s own repressive measures or its unwillingness to protect one group of its citizens from the hostility of others.

The report relates evidence gathered by various groups. It states that in North Korea ‘thousands of people

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are kept in dire conditions in labour camps and subject to arbitrary killings’ and that ‘religious communities seem to be especially targeted due to the incompatibility of their beliefs with the all-encompassing state ideology’. It says that in Burma there have been ‘incidents of massacres, attacks and rapes of Rohingya and Kaman Muslims’ and that in one state the Burmese Government had restricted humanitarian aid for Rohingya Muslims. It points out that severe legislation on conversion in India has led to Christians being attacked.

Lady Berridge believes it is significant that representatives of many faiths are contributing to the group.

‘A lot of faith groups and organisations do valuable work on behalf of their own communities. But we are saying that religious freedom is a universal human right.

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It’s not just a right for Baha’is, Christians or Muslims – it is everybody’s right, and we should be making representations against the religious persecution of every community.

‘The UK has such amazing diversity that we have an opportunity to bring together people of all the world religions and those with no faith to campaign for religious freedom. We compiled our report with the support of organisations such as Christian Solidarity Worldwide, the Coptic Orthodox Church Centre, the Hindu Forum of Britain and the Network of Sikh Organisations. Since then, we have been joined by the Baha’is, Buddhists and the British Humanist Association.’

The starting point of the all-party parliamentary group’s report is Article 18 from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948.

‘Sometimes you have to look back to recover the founding principles of something,’ says Lady Berridge. ‘We are saying that Article 18 was right. We need to reclaim it as our foundation and build on it.’

The all-party group suggests that quite a lot of building work needs to be done.

‘We called the report Article 18: an Orphaned Right because, although the commitment to freedom of religion is in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it hasn’t become a treaty or a convention,’ explains Lady Berridge. ‘The UN has a legally binding convention on children’s rights and a convention on stopping discrimination against women, but it hasn’t taken Article 18 through that international structure.’

The UN has a Special Rapporteur on freedom of

religion or belief, an independent expert who identifies problems and recommends solutions by undertaking fact-finding missions and communicating with states. But he is ‘the only international resource and he is part-time and unpaid’, says Lady Berridge, ‘so it is no surprise that freedom of religion has taken the trajectory it has, because international institutions haven’t had the focus or resources to implement it.

‘It is only recently that the EU issued its own guidelines on the issue.’

Article 18: an Orphaned Right, which has been sent to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Development, recommends that the UK Government takes action to support Article 18.

Lady Berridge explains: ‘In the report, we ask the Government to lobby the UN for proper resources for the Special Rapporteur. We think it should be a full-time, paid position.

‘But we also look at how the UK’s aid budget is spent. We suggest that when NGOs are bidding to provide

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The UK should have a special envoy on freedom of religionaid, they should have to show that they understand how their project will increase religious tolerance.

‘We also argue that the UK should have a special envoy on freedom of religion. America already has a post of ambassador for religious freedom and Norway has an ambassador for religious minorities. We ask the Government to create an independent post, a special envoy who would work with ambassadors and the rest of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to identify

issues in countries and work for freedom of religion.’

The all-party group wants to persuade people from all faiths and none to promote its aims. Lady Berridge hopes there will be a by-product to such campaigning.

‘It could do so much to bolster community cohesion in this country if a Christian knows that a Baha’i neighbour has written to their MP on behalf of an Iranian Christian who is in prison or if Muslims in one area know that

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their local churches are writing to their MP on behalf of Muslims in Burma. It would be a powerful demonstration of loving your neighbour.

‘We are told in the Bible to visit people in prison. We tend to take that to mean visiting those who are imprisoned domestically for breaking the criminal law. We don’t tend to think of it in terms of people in different countries who have been imprisoned for their faith. But Ben Rogers of Christian Solidarity Worldwide went to visit Alexander Aan, who was imprisoned for atheism in Indonesia.’

Lady Berridge is a Christian herself. She worships at an Anglican church in London though, she explains, she became a Christian in a Baptist church and enjoys going to Pentecostal events.

She sees her work in Parliament as ‘a vocation’ which had its origins in the time when, as a teenager, she heard somebody speak about ‘how Christians should be involved in every part of society and engage in every sphere of life.

‘What they said lit a pilot light. It started a passion in my heart.’

She studied law and practised as a barrister in Manchester, which proved to be ‘great training’ for her present work handling legislation in the Lords.

Her understanding of faith motivates her in her campaign for freedom of religion.

Lady Berridge sees that the universal corruptible human condition leads to the denial of the universal human right for freedom of religion: people of various faiths – including Christians – and people entirely opposed to religion have been behind appalling

repressions of religion. But, in her eyes, the universal right of freedom of religion is connected with a universal perspective of how the world should be.

‘We are not automatons,’ she says. ‘God has created us with the ability to choose him or not to choose him, and that is part of our human dignity. That is why I am defending freedom of belief on behalf of everybody, whether they choose to be Christians, Hindus or atheists. We were not created so that the state could tell us what to believe or not to believe.’

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

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ACROSS1. Communication (7)5. Artificial silk (5)7. Antiquated (7)8. Get knowledge (5)10. Abandon (4)11. Scare (8)13. Disregard (6)14. Voucher (6)17. Motorcycle

sport (8)19. Asian garment (4)21. Rejoice (5)22. Irregularity (7)23. Automobile (5)24. Defame (7)

DOWN2. Part (7)3. Slightly open (4)

QUICK CROSSWORDACROSS: 1 Message. 5 Rayon. 7 Archaic. 8 Learn. 10 Quit.

11 Frighten. 13 Ignore. 14 Coupon. 17 Speedway. 19 Sari. 21 Exult. 22 Anomaly. 23 Motor. 24 Slander.

DOWN: 2 Section. 3 Ajar. 4 Encore. 5 Religion. 6 Yeast. 7 Acquiesce. 9 Nonentity. 12 Creditor. 15 Placard. 16 Harass. 18 Erupt. 20 Coda.

QUICK QUIZWilliam Hartnall (1963–66); Patrick Troughton (1966–69); Jon

Pertwee (1970–74); Tom Baker (1974–81); Peter Davison (1982–84); Colin Baker (1984–86); Sylvester McCoy (1987–9, 1996); Paul McGann (1996) Christopher Eccleston (2005); David Tennant (2005–2010); Matt Smith (2010–2013); Peter Capaldi (2013–)

HONEYCOMB1 Pollen. 2 Onside. 3 Preset. 4 Figure. 5 Buffet. 6 Shorts.

Look up, down, forwards, backwards and diagonally on the grid to find these actors connected with ‘Doctor Who’

THE DOCTORCAPALDI (PETER)COLIN BAKERDAVISON (PETER)ECCLESTON (CHRISTOPHER)HARTNELL (WILLIAM)MCCOY (SYLVESTER)MCGANN (PAUL)PERTWEE (JON)SMITH (MATT)TENNANT (DAVID)TOM BAKERTROUGHTON (PATRICK)

COMPANIONSAGYEMAN (FREEMA)ALDRED (SOPHIE)BARROWMAN (JOHN)

COLEMAN (JENNA-LOUISE)COURTNEY (NICHOLAS)FIELDING (JANET)FORD (CAROLE ANN)FRANKLIN (RICHARD)GILLAN (KAREN)HINES (FRAZER)JAMESON (LOUISE)KINGSTON (ALEX)LANGFORD (BONNIE)MANNING (KATY)PADBURY (WENDY)PIPER (BILLIE)PURVES (PETER)

SLADEN (ELISABETH)SUTTON (SARAH)TAMM (MARY)TATE (CATHERINE)WARD (LALLA)WATERHOUSE (MATTHEW)WATLING (DEBORAH)

THE MASTERAINLEY (ANTHONY)BEEVERS (GEOFFREY)DELGADO (ROGER)JACOBI (DEREK)PRATT (PETER)ROBERTS (ERIC)SIMM (JOHN)

4. Call for repeat (6)5. Faith (8)6. Leaven (5)7. Agree (9)9. Person of no

importance (9)12. To whom money

is owed (8)15. Poster (7)16. Annoy (6)18. Explode (5)20. Concluding

piece in music (4)

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

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Daniel is the mane man In this series ROSEMARY

DAWSON looks at the lives of characters from the Old Testament

Daniel (Daniel 1 to 6)

THE story of Daniel in the lions’ den is one of the most memorable in the Old Testament. He’s also the subject of a children’s hymn:

Dare to be a Daniel,Dare to stand alone,Dare to have a purpose firm,Dare to make it known.So who was Daniel, and why did he become

‘dish of the day’ on the lions’ menu?The Book of Daniel recalls that after Babylon

invaded Judah, Daniel was taken captive and was among those chosen for a leadership position at King Nebuchadnezzar’s court.

When the King’s sleep became disturbed with bad dreams which his officials couldn’t solve, Daniel offered his services. He prayed hard for God’s help, which came in the form of a vision.

Nebuchadnezzar’s sleep problem was solved and Daniel was promoted. He continued interpreting dreams and also found favour with Nebuchadnezzar’s successor, King Darius.

Although jealous of Daniel’s power and popularity, court officials ‘could find no corruption in him, because he was trustworthy and neither corrupt nor negligent’ (Daniel 6:4 New International Version). The only point on which they felt they could attack him was his Jewish faith. At their suggestion, the King issued a law forbidding prayer to any god except himself for the next 30 days. The penalty for disobedience was a trip to the lions’ den.

Hearing this, Daniel ‘went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened towards Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before’ (6:10).

A very reluctant Darius had no choice but to enforce the law. Daniel was thrown in with the lions. But next morning Darius hurried to the lions’ den, calling: ‘Daniel, has your God … been able to rescue you from the lions?’ (6:20).

He was overjoyed to hear this reply: ‘My God … shut the mouths of the lions. They have not hurt me, because I was found innocent in his sight’ (6:22).

So Daniel was released and his accusers were thrown to the lions.

Daniel knew what the consequences of his actions would be, but he faithfully continued to pray and thank God. He was not afraid to stand up for what he believed in.

Would we be willing to do the same?

He faithfully continued to pray

A statue of a lion at Nebuchadnezzar’s Palace at al Hillah in modern Iraq

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IS the glass half-empty? Or is it half-full?Some people go through life with an optimistic attitude.

They live in hope that the sun will shine on that special occasion. Or they feel positive about an upcoming job interview.

Others are pessimists. Because of the problems life has thrown their way, they feel cynical and negative. They live without hope, doubting that things will get any better.

I feel that the word ‘hope’ is a little misunderstood. Many believe it is no more than a vague, wishy-washy optimism – a case of

putting trust in things we can’t influence or control, such as the weather.

But that’s not how hope is described in the Bible. One of its writers talks of holding ‘unswervingly’ to a hope, because that hope is based on promises of God, who ‘is faithful’ (see Hebrews 10:23 New International Version).

In other words, hope is trusting that God knows what is best for us and is ultimately taking care of us – even if we don’t feel it.

Life with little hope in it is bleak. Some people might question if a hopeless life is even worth living. But perhaps such people have been putting their hope in the wrong things – superficial relationships, which will disappoint them, or money, which is only fleeting.

When people put their hope in God, there are no let-downs. Instead, there is love and the knowledge that we matter to him. There is forgiveness for the things we have done which cause us regret. There is the possibility of a second chance.

Ultimately, there is the hope of spending an eternity with him in Heaven – where there is no despair, doubt or suffering.

That’s the kind of future I’m hoping for.

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Method:To make the filling, place the potatoes, cod, eggs,

coriander, onion, breadcrumbs and seasoning in a bowl and mix well.

Use your hands to form 8 rounds out of the mix, then place on a plate in the fridge for 15 minutes.

Put the flour, egg and breadcrumbs on 3 separate plates. Dip each fishcake in the flour, then in the beaten egg, then the breadcrumbs until completely coated. Melt the butter, then fry the fishcakes for 2 minutes on each side until they turn golden brown. Serve hot.

Makes 8

I’M Michael Darracott. I have been an executive chef in several large establishments in charge of cooking for 200-plus people. I have also written a number of books. It gives me great pleasure to offer my recipes in The War Cry.

I invite readers to send in recipe ideas, to be considered for publication here. I would also like to offer help with any cooking-related problems you have. So send in your question and, if it is selected, an answer will be published on this page.

Email your recipes and questions to chefmike56@chefmikedarracott.com

Ingredients:

For the filling

350g potatoes, peeled, boiled and drained

400g cod, cooked and flaked

2 eggs, beaten

2tbsp coriander, chopped

1 onion, diced

125g breadcrumbs

Salt and freshly ground black pepper

2tbsp unsalted butter, for frying

For the coating

5g plain flour

1 egg, beaten

30g breadcrumbs

1523 November 2013 The War CryWhat’s cooking?

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Coriander cod cakes

Ingredients:4tbsp golden syrup 175g unsalted butter 160g caster sugar ½ tsp cinnamon2 drops of vanilla essence3 large eggs, beaten 160g self-raising flour2tbsp milk

Steamed treacle pudding

Method:Grease a 1l pudding basin and spoon in the

golden syrup. Beat the butter and sugar together in a bowl,

then add the cinnamon, vanilla essence and eggs, a little at a time. Mix in the flour and milk, then spoon into the pudding basin.

Place a heatproof saucer upside down on the bottom of a large saucepan, then position the pudding basin on top. Pour boiling water into the pan until it reaches a third of the way up the pudding basin. Cover the saucepan with a lid and simmer for 90 minutes. While the pudding is steaming, keep an eye on the water level and top up if necessary.

Turn out the pudding on a large plate and serve hot with custard.

Serves 4

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AFTER 25 years, David Suchet has finally laid his little grey cells to rest as Hercule Poirot in the ITV dramas. But fans of Agatha Christie’s Belgian detective don’t need to worry about saying goodbye to him just yet. In a new book Poirot and Me, David explains what it was like to play the sleuth on television and how the role changed his life.

Although David’s newsreader brother John told him not to touch the role with a bargepole, David took up the challenge and donned the iconic moustache for the first time in 1988. After filming 70 stories, it’s no wonder that David describes Poirot as

‘my invisible best friend’. Speaking at a book signing, he added: ‘Saying bye to Poirot has been the hardest moment of my career. I will miss him.’

But why do people love Poirot so much anyway? David suggests that it is because he is a man of compassion and ‘there is something about him you wish you could be like’. He also feels that Poirot has a strong sense of morality, which comes from a Christian faith.

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The gospel sleuthDavid Suchet reveals the mystery of Poirot

‘Poirot depends on God,’ David tells The War Cry. ‘He is a man of prayer. His faith means an enormous amount to him, and not just because he’s an orthodox Catholic, but because he’s a Christian.

‘A Christian has a relationship with God as Father and Lord. And God is the ruler of the lives of those who call themselves Christians – myself included.’

David believes that Poirot’s dedication to faith is what motivates him in his detective work.

‘He believes genuinely – and this is in the books – that “le bon Dieu” placed him in this world to rid it of evil and crime. He takes his faith incredibly seriously and sometimes it costs him or gives him big problems.’

After developing Poirot’s faith over 25 years, David feels that his own Christian experience has been enhanced. He sees Poirot’s relationship with God as ‘a driving force in his life’, which is what endears him to people.

‘My son-in-law describes Poirot as the greatest of moral compasses,’ David says. ‘And I think that’s a brilliant way of looking at him.’

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