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The first Christmas without my best friend IT WAS ONLY a box of Liquorice Allsorts, but it had me near to tears in the supermarket. Subscriber only	Twelve days of Kitschmas Unique gift ideas Subscriber only	Now you see him . . . WHEN I was a student, I remember listening to a sermon about Christmas. Subscriber only

This most tremendous tale of all READING POETRY is a tremendous way to expand devotional reflection Subscriber only	Tears and smiles like us he knew “But little Lord Jesus, no crying he makes” Subscriber only	The more the merrier ‘Our culture still plays out the opposition of cheekiness and decorum’ Subscriber only

Something for the tree “I want my sons to go to secondary school,” says Francis Bediako-Manu, a cocoa grower. Subscriber only	Milton’s ‘On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity’ Milton is quite impossible in one way. Subscriber only	Things may be looking up for families THE Christmas story tells of a struggling family separated from its community, relying on strangers for shelter, and then forced to flee in terror. Subscriber only

Celebrating away in the mission field ‘How would you like to eat the white worms which live in old decayed trees?’ Subscriber only	A cold coming we had — twice A COLD COMING we had of it. Subscriber only	Christmas with a flock but no fold LAST Christmas, the Revd David Richardson — the station chaplain at RAF Lyneham, in Wiltshire — went from the sanctuary of a family Christmas to a war... Subscriber only

Inspiration as the impetus for a thing of beauty Pages from some of the world’s most beautiful Bibles Subscriber only	Admont Giant Bible, Salzburg, around the middle of the 12th century As in the case of liturgical manuscripts used in services, faithful transmission of the text was a central concern of Bibles. Subscriber only	History Bible, Urach (Swabia), 1463 This German-language history Bible relates the history of the world from Creation to the destruction of Jerusalem (AD 70). Subscriber only

The Wenceslas Bible, Prague, around 1389/95 The first translations of the Bible into German were not sanctioned by the authorities of the Church Subscriber only	St Jerome, Commentaries on the Bible, Florence, 1488 This manuscript, produced in Florence in 1488, contains St Jerome’s commentaries on two Gospels and on Ecclesiastes. Subscriber only	Greek Gospel Book, Constantinople (?), c.1000 The patronage of the arts by the Macedonian dynasty of Eastern Emperors (857-1056) contributed to a cultural flowering . Subscriber only

Ethiopic Gospel Book, Ethiopia, around 1700 Christianity reached Ethiopia in the middle of the fourth century with the baptism of King ’Ezana. Subscriber only	'Interview: Zoughbi Zoughbi mediator, Bethlehem 'Christmas tourists are never a nuisance’ Subscriber only

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