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A CAMPAIGN calling on UK churches to disinvest from fossil fuels was launched in London last week. ‘Bright Now: towards fossil-free churches’ is run by Operation Noah, an ecumenical Christian charity providing leadership, focus and inspiration in response to the growing threat of climate change.

The campaign calls on leaders of all Christian denominations to withdraw their investments in fossil-

fuel companies with immediate effect; take a lead in the national debate on the ethics of fossil-fuel investment and re-invest in – and support – clean alternatives to fossil fuels.

Canon Giles Goddard, Priest-in-Charge of St John’s Church, Waterloo, says: ‘We brought nothing into this world and we will take nothing out of it. Our responsibility is to look after the planet while we are here. What will our grandchildren say? You knew about this critical situation and yet you did nothing about it? It is astonishing that we haven’t already poured investment into renewable sources of energy.’

A CHRISTIAN minister has been arrested twice in one week for preaching the gospel in Scotland. On Wednesday 18 September, the Rev Josh Williamson, pastor of Craigie Reformed Baptist Church was preaching in Perth High Street when, surrounded by a crowd of listeners, he was told by police officers that a complaint had been made, that he was causing a breach of the peace and that he should stop preaching.

Mr Williamson told the officer he was not prepared to stop preaching. He was arrested and cautioned.

On Saturday 21 September, following another complaint, Mr Williamson was again arrested in Perth High Street and spent some six hours in a police cell before being released. During his time in custody, he was offered bail, but declined the condition of

staying away from Perth.‘The police say that I was in breach of the

peace, as people had complained and were upset at my message,’ Mr Williamson tells The War Cry. ‘One officer said that the issue was the content of my message.

‘On both occasions, I was taken to the police station and encouraged not to preach on the streets again, or – if I did – to do so in no more than a “talking” voice. This is despite the fact that I don’t use an amplifica-tion system.’

The arrest of Christian preachers on British streets is very rare. Asked why he thinks he was arrested, Mr Williamson says: ‘I think it was due to the content of my mes-sage. Jesus said that people love darkness and hate the light. I think we are seeing that clearly displayed.

‘These experiences will not stop me preaching. The reason I won’t stop is because God says to go and preach. When the early-day Christians were told to remain silent, they asked, “Is it better to obey God or man?” That is the question I would ask.’

At the time of going to press, Mr Williamson has not been charged.

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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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Extract from Why Jesus? by Nicky Gumbel published by Alpha International, 2011. Used by kind permission of Alpha International

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IS LION Hudson has published a new book on Salvation Army founders, William and Catherine Booth. Written by Salvation Army member Cathy Le Feuvre, William and Catherine tells the couple’s love story.

‘The main message that I want to get across in the book is that despite their challenges, Catherine and William always believed God was directing their lives,’ she tells The War Cry.

‘They were sometimes confused, but eventually they developed into an amazing couple who created this fantastic organisation which is The Salvation Army.’

THE Salvation Army has been supporting security personnel and blood donors following the

armed attack on the Westgate shopping centre in central Nairobi, Kenya. Food and refreshments have been volunteered by members of The Salvation Army with dedicated teams offering pas-toral support.

Although the situation has scaled down, Richard Bradbury, Salvation Army Projects Officer (pictured, left) says, ‘Whatever hap-pens, we’re going to be here round the clock for the foreseeable future.’

Support given in wake of Westgate

SALVATION ARMY FOUNDERS’ LOVE STORY REVEALED

Cathy Le Feuvre at the launch of her book

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Helen (Gina McKee) tasks Jack (Warren Brown)

Click! A sneaky snap of Mrs M in a café, blend in a pic of a witness Mason wants dead and Jack has it – ‘evi-dence’ that Mason’s princess is fooling around.

All Jack has to do is show Mason who’s been enter-taining his wife. Mason will make it personal and trip up. Sorted!

Shady as his methods are, Jack’s world is black and white.

‘We go after the bad guys. The ends justify the means,’ he says.

Those who think that two wrongs make a right might have sympathy with Jack’s worldview. If the law doesn’t deliver justice, then another way of bringing perpetrators to book is justifiable.

The Good Book has a lot to say about justice. The commandments not to kill, steal or commit adultery are enshrined in today’s law. The Bible also says that we have all broken God’s law – we’ve all sinned – and are therefore facing a death sentence.

But the Bible also says that God sent his Son, Jesus, to die in our place for our sin. When we ask his forgiveness, and trust that God accepts the death of the sinless Jesus in our place, he wipes our record clean. We are free to be on our way.

THERE’S a fine line between right and wrong. And when the legal system isn’t delivering justice, there’s one man who can, Jack Quinn. That’s the MO behind BBC 1’s crime drama series By Any Means.

Based in an airy South London loft, Jack runs a shadowy unit that tracks and traps villains and brings criminals to justice by fair means or foul.

Jack (Warren Brown) is tasked by his insider informant, Helen Barlow, and is known to the boys in blue, but when asked whether or not he is a cop, he replies: ‘it’s a grey area’. His methods are also open to question.

The first episode started with him and his team – sidekick Jess and techie Tom Tom – entrapping young hoods with the promise of a football stadium tour, only to coral them into a waiting police van.

Then Helen tells Jack about Mr Big. Nicholas Mason has just walked free from court. He’d been in the

dock after a man had been shot dead while being forced to open his firm’s safe.

Mason has an alibi – a charity-function put him 50 miles away from the scene of the crime, at the time that it happened. Chances are, he had heavies do the dirty work for him. The police can’t connect him. Helen tells Jack: ‘I want them off the streets, by any means.’

That’s the green light. Jack, Jess and Tom Tom get to work. Information is power, so they gather as much info on Mason as they can. All the time, they are looking for an angle, a lever, or a weak-ness that will trigger Mason into making a mistake and incriminating himself.

Bosh! They get it. The wife. Mrs Mason – 30 years her old man’s junior, a blond trophy wife if ever there was one. What won’t he do to keep their relationship tidy?

Smash! In goes a window at Chez Mason and the team is soon rifling through the family safe, photos and computer.

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DAVID WOMERSLEY and IAN CHAFFEY tell Claire Brine why they are cycling round Majorca

WHILE most people like to use their holiday to sit down and

relax, David Womersley and Ian Chaffey have chosen to spend their time off cycling round the island of Majorca. This month, they will cover 300 miles in three days to raise money for charity.

‘We plan to cycle about 100 miles per day, which should take us eight or nine hours,’ says David, who is a Salvation Army officer in Abertillery. ‘We will set off from Magaluf (which is in the south west of Majorca) and cycle along the west-coast road, climbing 4,500 feet, before dropping down to Port de Sóller. On the second day, we will climb up to Lluc Monastery, then head for the north coast, cycling through Pollença, Alcúdia and C’an Picafort. On our last day, we will head down the east coast into Palma, then back to Magaluf. We must be mad!’

The idea behind the cycle ride is to raise funds for the charities which helped Ian’s brother, David, when he underwent a heart transplant in 2011.

‘David was very ill before the operation and there were huge complications after it,’ says Ian, who is a member of the Abertillery Salvation Army church. ‘Without the help of the doctors at the University Hospital in Birmingham, he certainly would have died. We decided to raise money for the hospital’s Heart and Lung Transplant Fund, so that other people could be helped as David was.

‘We also wanted to raise money for The Salvation Army, because the churches in Abertillery and Cwm were hugely supportive of our family when David was ill. People prayed for us and helped us financially so that my parents could move to Birmingham for six months while David had the operation.’

Last year, after being nominated by rehabilitation staff, David car-ried the Olympic flame during the torch relay. Today, he is back at work and , according to Ian, ‘living life to the full’.

Ian contemplates the road ahead for him and his fel-low cyclist.

‘I expect the biggest challenge of all will be getting up

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the hills,’ he says. ‘Especially in the heat. In Wales we have our fair share of rain, so we don’t have to worry very much about hydration while cycling. But in Majorca we expect to be very hot most of the time, so we will need to drink lots of water. Getting that balance right will be tricky.’

David is also anxious about climbing the hills. He explains that they have been incorporating as many hills as possible in to their training schedule.

‘They are such hard work,’ he says. ‘The last half a mile up to my house is a steady hill, followed by a big hill. After a four-hour training cycle, getting up that last hill really wears me out.’

‘The training can be gruelling,’ adds Ian. ‘Afterwards, you just want to sit down and do

nothing.’In fact, David has had a period of sitting

down and doing nothing forced upon him, after an injury picked up during training stopped him from cycling for a while.

‘We were riding on a track and I came off my bike,’ says David. ‘I was unconscious for a while and hurt the whole side of my body. I also cracked my thumb, so it had to be strapped up. I also had to take a few weeks off training because I couldn’t grip the handlebars.

‘Having to take a rest was frustrating, but it made me more determined than anything to get back on my bike.’

As the challenge gets nearer, David and Ian are experiencing mixed feelings. They are

excited, daunted, determined and hopeful. As Christians, they are praying for the strength to

achieve their goal. The hours they have spent train-ing have also given them pause for thought.

‘The routes we have cycled have made me appre-ciate creation in a new way,’ says David. ‘When I look

around and see the beauty in the world, I’m grateful to God.’

Ian says: ‘This whole experience has helped me realise how precious life is. My brother was only 27 years old when he had his transplant, and his story makes me see that life can easily be taken away. We need to take the time to enjoy and value it.’

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RADIO presenter, game-show panellist and former pop star the Rev Richard Coles has just published his second book on saints. Legends of the Improbable Saints looks at the lives of lesser-known Christian holy men and women, many of whom were martyred for their faith.

Richard applies characteristic gentle humour in his storytelling. For example, St Nicholas, who resurrected three boys and, with three stockings of gold, redeemed three girls from pros-titution, ‘looked like Ronnie Corbett with a broken nose’.

‘A saint,’ Richard tells The War Cry, ‘is a person in whom the life of Heaven is most persuasively anticipated on Earth. I love the encouragement saints give to the rest of us to continue to walk faithfully with Jesus.

‘Most saints go unnoticed, but I think you know one when you find one. In our own time, I would consider Oscar Romero, Janani Luwum, Evelyn Underhill and William and Catherine Booth to be saints.’•Illustrated by Ted Harrison, Legends of the Improbable Saints is published by Darton, Longman and Todd

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PREACHERS who are arrested on the streets of Britain tend to be described as the ‘radical cleric’ variety. The story of a Baptist preacher in Perth being taken into custody for preaching the gospel could be just a little local difficulty or something of greater significance.

As reported in Spectator and in social media, on 21 September Australian Josh Williamson – recently appointed pastor of Craigie Reformed Baptist Church – was preaching in Perth city centre when a police officer asked him to stop.

The sergeant told him that they had received complaints about him and that, in Josh’s words ‘I was in breach of the peace’. Josh questioned how preaching without amplification could be considered as such when two amplified street performers were allowed to continue.

The Rev Williamson spent some six hours in a police cell before being released. During his time in custody, he says he was offered bail on condition that he stayed away from the city. He refused. At the time of going to press, he is uncertain as to whether he will be charged.

Although events like this are rare in the UK, Christian Concern notes that there have been three such arrests – the others being in London and in Basildon – in as many months.

Andrea Minichello Williams, CEO of Christian Legal Centre says: ‘These street preachers are not breaking any laws and are perfectly within their rights. Freedom of speech is a precious freedom that we must uphold. The threat to freedom of speech is a concern for wider society, not just for Christians.’

These are wise words. In a democratic society, freedom of responsible expression belongs to everyone. It can also be misused or minimalised by anyone.

The freedoms we enjoy were bought with a price. They are precious. They are fragile. If they are not defended – or not exercised – they will disappear and we will all be the poorer.

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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

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A CHRISTIAN teacher claims she was forced out of a Muslim faith school after being put under pressure to follow an extreme dress code, reports the Daily Mail.

Female employees at the Al-Madinah free school in Derby were allegedly ordered not only to wear the hijab (scarf) to cover their head, but also to cover their entire bodies and not to wear symbols of other faiths.

The Christian teacher, who does not wish to be named, started work at Al-Madinha when it opened as a multi-faith free school a year ago.

Three months later, she left after she felt the rules had become too ‘strict’. She said she was told nothing about a dress code in her interview or contract, but was given a dress-code handbook a month after she started the job.

She told the paper: ‘I am disappointed that the school does not appear to be the multi-faith school I was excited about joining. I felt oppressed, faced with prej-udice and marginalised.’

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OVER the next two Sundays, Songs

of Praise presents six of the best amateur gospel choirs from around the UK showcasing their singing talents on BBC One. Singer-songwriter and actress Ruby Turner, founder of the London Community Gospel Choir, Bazil Meade, and vocal coach and TV presenter Carrie Grant make up the celebrity judging panel. They will select one choir to become the first-ever Songs of Praise Gospel Choir of the Year. David Grant will introduce the two shows from the Town Hall, Birmingham.

BRITISH Broadcaster Piers Morgan, who recently interviewed Pastor Rick

Warren for his CNN show Piers Morgan Tonight, tweeted: ‘I don’t think I’ve ever done a more heart-breaking, emotional, and yet inspiring interview.’ Piers interviewed the author of best-selling book The Purpose Driven Life about how he and his family used their faith to cope after his son took his own life.

75 October 2013 The War CryThe great outdoors

and don’t forget…

Sweet peasHardy sweet peas can be sown now for growing in pots overwinter to develop quickly next spring. Keep the young plants in a

greenhouse or cold flame.

AUTUMN is the main bulb-planting season. For something a little different, why not try growing some daffodils to naturalise in drifts in grassy areas. Plant them in odd-numbered groups and they will look perfectly natural, particularly at the edge of semi-wild areas. When choosing the location, bear in mind that, after flowering next spring, they will need at least six weeks before the dead foliage can be cut.

Any remaining summer bedding can be discarded this month. The plants can be composted and seed heads of any non-hybrid type can be retained and dried overwinter for sowing next year.

Take cuttings of penstemons now, as not all varieties will reliably survive the winter. The cuttings will make new plants in case the established ones are lost.

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The small crocus corms are planted in late summer and the flowers usually come into bloom in late September and October. The flowers tend to be lilac or purple and the blooms are sweetly scented. A delightful white saffron crocus is available, too. In either case, the vibrant red stigmas, protruding from the centre of the bloom are the saffron itself. The leaves are not developed until spring.

Despite the exotic-sounding name, the good news is that saffron crocus is surprisingly easy to grow. Simply choose a well-drained soil with a sunny aspect and it will thrive. Saffron is extremely hardy and will multiply over time. Even if it is grown just as an autumn-flowering plant, this is a must in any garden.

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Autumn delights are in store

Saffron crocus in bloom

Dig deep to plant bulbs

Seasonal vegIn season this month in the veg garden are beetroot, cabbage, carrots, potatoes, radish, swede and turnip.

Broad beansTowards the end of the month, sow

some hardy broad beans. Aquadulce

Claudia is the best variety. The beans

can be sown in pots, in cold frames, or

directly in sheltered well-drained areas

of your vegetable garden. The beans will

be ready a month earlier next year, than

their spring-sown counterparts.

CarrotsCarrots can be left in the ground to harvest, when

required, if soil conditions are quite dry. However, if

the soil is wet, slugs will be problematic, so it is

better to dig up the carrots. Store them in damp sand

or old potting compost in a shed or outbuilding.

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David Livingstone explored new territory. Two hundred years after his birth, a new exhibition is to explore his life and legacy. Archivist at the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), JOANNE ICHIMURA tells Philip Halcrow what the archives can reveal

‘PRESUMABLY, the generation that comes after him piggybacks on his

ideas, and then we get the scramble for Africa,’ says Joanne Ichimura, who has been involved in putting together a new exhibition on the 19th-century doctor, missionary and explorer David Livingstone.

Joanne, who is responsible for the archives of the London Missionary Society, has been reading the letters of David Livingstone and gathering artefacts for the exhibition at the University of London. She can see how the man once greeted by journalist Henry Morton Stanley with the words ‘Dr Livingstone, I presume?’ has become surrounded by presumptions, assumptions, opinions and interpretations.

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‘Like a lot of important figures,’ she says, ‘his reputation has been used and reinterpreted by different people in different times in different countries for different reasons. He is contested by historians, biographers … everyone.’

Livingstone, who was born in Blantyre 200 years ago, has been celebrated as a popular author – his Missionary Travels book was a huge seller – and for his efforts to open up routes through Africa so that ‘legitimate trade’ could replace the slave trade. But some associate him with imperialism and with the ‘scramble for Africa’ when European powers moved in to exploit the continent’s resources.

To stage the exhibition, SOAS is drawing on the expertise of historians specialising in the history of mission, Africa and African Christianity. As an archivist, Joanne has been going through missionary material in

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SOAS’s library and has gained her own impressions of Livingstone and his motivations.

‘He wanted to be a missionary quite early on,’ she says. ‘He was from a Congregationalist background and was influenced by key figures in missionary work, such as Robert Moffat who was a quite a well-known missionary in southern Africa.

‘Livingstone decided that he wanted to combine his strong religious convictions with his desire to be a medical man. So his qualification to be a doctor and his application to be a missionary with the London Missionary Society ran side by side. They were certainly the main driving force for him to go – in the end – to southern Africa.

‘From 1840 to 1856, he was a missionary. Then he resigned as a missionary and apparently took up a career in exploration, backed by government funding. His task was to explore the Zambezi. But his correspondence challenges the view of him as purely an explorer at that point. When you read it, you get a sense that he still carries his missionary ideals with him. He’s exploring new territory, but he does so initially because he wants to make converts, he wants to spread the gospel.’

Joanne has picked up clues about his methods in his mission.

‘He seemed to use his medical expertise as a means of gaining trust among the local rulers. There was a lot of networking – as we would call it today – taking place, so people would get to know missionaries, and the missionary doctor in particular. Livingstone made friendships through caring for people in a medical capacity.

‘His letters also suggest that he was invited to live with particular peoples in the region by their ruler or chief. He was a resident missionary with the baKgatla and then with the baKwena. In each case, he was invited by the chief.

‘He took his family, set up home and they lived among the villagers, working with them to build a school, housing and a church. They lived alongside each other, and the hope was that, through talking with them about the gospel, they would convert to Christianity.’

Livingstone’s letters explore not only how he became a missionary among various peoples but also why, says Joanne.

‘He thought they invited him for practical benefits. There was a lot of conflict in the region, a lot of population movements and competition for land. Some of those rulers were quite feared.’

You get the impression from Livingstone’s letters that a lot of the peoples in the region were quite fearful of Mzilikazi, who was chief of the Ndebele, and that somehow they believed having a missionary with

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slave trade.‘When you read his letters, you see he is backed

in some of his expeditions across Africa and into the region around Zambezi by particular rulers in the region. Sekelutu, the chief of the Makalolo, gives him goods to trade, canoes and men to help him get to the east coast and then continue his journey to the west coast. In his letters, he says Sekelutu wants to open up commerce for himself.’

It was not necessarily a complete success. Joanne says: ‘You get the impression that by opening up particular routes, he actually increased the slave trade in some of those regions.’

Many people argue that it had other ill effects.‘Presumably the generation that comes after him

piggybacks on his ideas, and then we get the scramble for Africa. Livingstone’s ideas are used to legitimise something that is very exploitative. So he gets linked with division and the exploitation of Africa.’

Joanne says using missionary archives to explore Livingstone’s efforts to stop the slave trade provides a great deal of information but also raises questions.

‘We haven’t got the alternative perspectives. We don’t have the African viewpoint in our archives. Livingstone talks about his interactions with other people and what he thinks their motivations are for supporting him, but we only have his take on it.’

The same is true in other areas of Livingstone’s life – including his relationship with Sechele, the Chief of the baKwena. Sechele was Livingstone’s one convert, though Sechele went on to convert many of his own people.

Joanne says: ‘Even here, what we mainly have are Livingstone’s accounts of his conversations with Sechele about his conversion to Christianity as well as Livingstone’s observations of the reactions of Sechele’s people to his baptism, which was quite negative.

‘Livingstone had conversations with Sechele about rainmaking. The ruler was believed to have powers to invoke rainfall, but missionaries were fundamentally opposed to issues such as that. They saw it as superstitious. So they came into conflict on issues such as rainmaking and polygamy. Sechele had five wives, and the missionaries were adamant you could only have one.

them conferred on them the advantages of European backing through influence, guns and gunpowder – although missionaries didn’t generally bring in guns and gunpowder.’

Livingstone also expresses his views on the way in which missionaries should work. ‘He talks a lot in his letters about what he calls “native agency”. He advocates missionaries going into a place and then getting out as quickly as possible, leaving local people with custody of the Christian message, which they can spread further.’

Joanne says that Livingstone’s correspondence also gives an insight into his views on the political situation in southern Africa, which was being colonised by the British and Dutch.

‘There’s a lot in his letters on racial relations, conflict and slavery.

‘He tends to fall on the side of the indigenous peoples, and that seems to be the London Missionary Society’s stance in general.

‘Livingstone generally seems to come down on the side of the fact that the Boer community were not treating the indigenous people well – although he is a man of his own time and he sometimes expresses his views in terms that today we would find quite racist.

‘But, for example, in 1852 the missionary station at Kolobeng was raided by the Boers. They attacked the local people and took a lot of women and children prisoner. Livingstone and the chief at the time, Sechele, wrote to the missionary directors and to the colonial authorities about the way in which the people of Kolobeng had been treated, but not very much happened – it all came down to politics. But the letters from both men express their grievances – their frustration with the mistreatment and with the fact that the colonial authorities don’t really act for political reasons.’

Livingstone also wanted to act to combat the slave trade. He aimed to do it through ‘Christianity, commerce and civilisation’.

Joanne explains: ‘He felt very strongly that, by encouraging European merchants to come in with their produce along the routes that he’d found, it would be possible to build up trade between the West and African people. He believed that would supplant the need for a

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‘Livingstone talks about conversations they had around these issues. So you get glimpses of the African perspective – but they are only glimpses. We don’t actually know what Sechele thought.

‘Even the letters written by Sechele are generally translated and transcribed by the missionaries, with Sechele’s signature underneath. It’s a mediated account. But we do have a published translation of one of Sechele’s letters in seTswana, so that we can get a sense of what he was saying in his own language.’

The archives reveal Livingstone’s views. Joanne hopes they will play some part in helping visitors to the exhibition form their own view of Livingstone.

‘Livingstone is a very controversial figure,’ she says, ‘because to some people he represents the pinnacle of colonialism, 19th-century imperialism and the exploitation of Africa. That is definitely a legitimate viewpoint.

‘I guess it comes down to the question: Can you judge historical figures by contemporary standards?

‘For me, the answer is not necessarily, because you have to view someone in the context of their own time in history.’

And although Livingstone has come to represent various big ideas, Joanne has discovered through his letters someone who is ‘very human’.

She says: ‘He is quite witty. He is extremely driven. He constantly refers to a sense of divine purpose.

‘Over the years, Livingstone has often been criticised for neglecting his family – for dragging his wife and children across Africa and then shipping them back to Britain. That’s a bit of a simplification, because you can tell he has very deep feelings for them.

‘He’s also very ill a lot of the time. He spends a lot of his time with malaria and dysentery. He’s aware of his own frailty. But you can sense he’s going to spend the rest of his life in Africa – he senses a divine purpose.’

• The Life and Afterlife of David Livingstone opens at the Brunei Gallery, University of London, on 22 October

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Jesus.I.Am5 October 2013 The War Cry

In this series ROSEMARY DAWSON looks at the ways Jesus described himself

‘I am the way and the truth and the life’ (John 14:6)

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Then Jesus gives Thomas – and all who are seeking God’s direction for their lives – this signpost to follow: ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me’ (John 14:6). This is the sixth of the ‘I am’ sayings recorded in John’s Gospel.

The world is full of people who go aimlessly from one thing to another, seeking purpose and meaning. Ambition and materialism often choke the choice between good and bad, and blur the judgment of what is right and meaningful.

Jesus did not say he was just another option to try out. He said plainly, ‘I am the only way to find God.’

If we choose not to follow God’s map for our lives and continue to go our own sweet way, we will find ourselves on a road to nowhere. What clearer signpost do we need?

DO you trust a satnav to take you to your chosen destination, or do you prefer the tried-and-tested road map?

Whichever we choose, a new unmarked bypass or diversion has the capacity to throw our planned route into confusion – sometimes causing us to lose our way and find ourselves in a place we don’t want to be.

Asking directions from a passer-by can also have its pitfalls. In trying to remember their advice when to ‘turn right at the roundabout’ or ‘sharp left at the second junction’, we can get even more lost than before – until that wonderful moment when we suddenly realise that we are back on the right road.

For three years, Jesus journeyed around Palestine with his disciples. They had listened to his teachings about God, watched him perform miracles, and seen people’s lives transformed. Now that journey was about to end, but some still didn’t fully understand that Jesus would soon have to suffer and die to fulfil God’s purpose for humankind.

During their final meal together, Jesus tells the disciples that he is going away to prepare a place for them. Thomas asks, ‘Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?’ (John 14:5 New International Version).

We can get more lost than before

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Food for thought

Toast-eating makes sense

by BARBARA LYNE

DO you enjoy a nice piece of toast to start the day? I do. One day, I was at the kitchen table with my fresh, wholemeal toast ready for spreading. I went to pick up the jar of my favourite jam. It was the right size and the correct colour, but when I opened the lid and was about to plunge my knife in, I had a whiff of the contents – mango chutney!

It was my sense of smell that saved me from an unusual breakfast. Had I not smelt the contents of the jar, I may have ended up eating it. But then again, I’m sure my sense of taste would have soon let my tongue know that this was not jam.

How valuable our senses are in daily living! The faculties of sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell add so much to life.

I wonder which of the senses people tend to value the most. Do you enjoy the touch of a baby’s hand? The smell of coffee? Or do you love hearing music, tasting strong cheese or simply looking into the face of a loved one? I believe these life-enriching senses are gifts to us from God – and they can help us to experience him.

We can marvel at God’s handiwork when we look at the colours of his beautiful

creation, when we smell the sea air, when we hear the birds singing or when we touch the grass.

One Bible writer even urged people to ‘taste and see that the Lord is good’ (Psalm 34:8 New International Version). He knew that when we take God in – to our heart and our mind – we can be struck by his love and changed by his forgiveness.

In all our senses, God is there, waiting for us to encounter him. The question is: are we looking?

How valuable our senses are in daily living!

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:

2tsp vegetable oil

5g peas

5g sweetcorn kernels

2tsp water

5tsp light soy sauce

1 onion, sliced

1 green pepper, sliced

1 celery stick, finely chopped

Salt and black pepper, to taste

1tsp ground ginger

A sprinkling of fresh ginger, grated

1tsp caster sugar

200g beef steak, thinly sliced

100g long grain rice, boiled and drained

155 October 2013 The War CryWhat’s cooking?

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Ingredients:4tbsp ginger jam175g butter160g caster sugar½ tsp cinnamon2 drops of vanilla essence3 large eggs, beaten160g self-raising flour2tbsp milk

Steamed ginger pudding

Method:Grease a 1l pudding basin, then spoon

in the ginger jam.In a bowl, beat together the butter and

caster sugar, then add the cinnamon, vanilla essence and the eggs, a little

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Chef Mike answers readers’ questionsSarah, Newquay: I often end up with bits of stock left over, what can I do to use rather than waste it?Chef Mike: I always make more stock than a recipe requires. I let it cool, bag it and freeze it, marking on the freezer bag what kind of stock it is. I then have a ready supply of stock for soups and stews.

David, Truro: What can I do to stop dough sticking to my hands when I’m baking?Chef Mike: Before you handle the dough, rub a little flour or olive oil onto your hands.

Clare, Kent: How can I stop nuts sinking to the bottom of a cake?Chef Mike: Toasted nuts are less likely to sink. Preheat oven to 180C/350F/Gas Mark 4. Spread a layer of nuts on a baking tray and toast for 5–15 minutes, depending on the type of nuts. Once they have cooled, dust with a little flour before adding to your cake mix.

Dave, Swindon: How can I store left-over herbs and spices?Chef Mike: The best way to store them is in airtight containers in the freezer.

Ginger beef strips in soy sauce

at a time. Add the flour and milk and

stir well. Spoon the mixture into the pudding basin.

Place a heatproof saucer on the bottom of a large saucepan, then place the pudding basin on top. Pour boiling water into the pan so it reaches a third of the way up the pudding basin. Cover with a lid and leave over a simmering heat.

Steam the pudding for 90 minutes, remembering to keep an eye on the water level. Top up when necessary.

Serve the ginger pudding hot, with ice cream or custard.

Serves 4

Method:Place the oil, peas, sweetcorn, water and soy

sauce in a frying pan over a medium heat. Cook for 1 minute.

Add the onion, green pepper, celery, salt and pepper and cook for 4 minutes.

Next add the ground and fresh ginger, caster sugar and beef steak to the pan. Cook until the meat is tender. Serve on a bed of rice.

Serves 4

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MARTIN Luther King had a dream and revolutionised civil rights. Bob Marley turned reggae into a global music force. Sir Trevor McDonald became ITV’s first black broadcaster. These are just some of the notable people celebrated in October – Black History Month.

After the Second World War, thousands of Caribbean men and women arrived in the UK to swell the work force. Despite the racial, social and economic challenges faced, Caribbean and African communities grew and added – and still add – many vibrant facets to British culture.

In October 1987, Black History Month became an annual celebration in the UK of the roots, heritage and achievements of black people around the world. It is – says Dr Richard Benjamin, head of the International Slavery Museum – ‘often the first time that some people engage and celebrate black history and culture’

The Slavery Museum is running exhibitions about black British dancers, lectures on negro spirituals and activities for children inspired by the black achievers of history.

Over the years, the focus on black history has given people of other ethnicities and cultures the opportunity to gain an insight into the struggles and achievements of a part of British society.

Wherever we come from, knowing about our roots is vital. They connect us to something greater.

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Being aware of our heritage gives us a sense of identity. People who don’t know their background can feel detached, isolated and unwanted.

Whatever our life story, we can all be connected back to another famous time in history.

God, our heavenly father, sent his Son, Jesus, to heal the sick and teach us a better way

of life. More importantly, Jesus came to show that – whatever our personal

history – God loves us, wants to know us and longs to give us a home after we die.

Jesus died on the cross as the punishment for our sin to make that

a possibility for each of us. If we ask God’s forgiveness

and turn away from our wrongdoing, he will ensure that our roots will be firmly secured in him. And that is something worth celebrating this and every month.

The Black Achievers Wall, International Slavery Museum

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It pays to know who we arewrites RENÉE DAVIS

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