Gethin Russell-Jones

Aberfan: The Quiet Heroism Of The Wounded Healer

Fifty years later the word still sounds like a terrible lament: Aberfan.
$Father\'s Day: \'I only got to know and understand my father after his death\'$
Father's Day: 'I only got to know and understand my father after his death'

Dad died in 2011 at the great age of 92; having celebrated nearly half a century as a minister and 65 years of marriage. And as I wrote the account of my mother's war story (My Secret Life in Hut Six), the quiet wound of doubt opened up again. Why hadn't my father fought in the war? Was it conscience or cowardice? By now of course it was too late ask direct questions; I could only rely on diaries, endless sermon jottings and scribblings. I wanted to get behind the mythology surrounding his pac
Salvation Army in Wales looking good after 140 years

Salvation Army celebrates big birthday in Wales
I was born in Sebastopol

Unlike its South Wales counterpart, Sevastopol is fighting for its identity.
Making more of Easter

Two brothers on a mission to change the city
Is Lent your guilty pleasure?

How evangelicals rediscovered a forgotten season
$Saint David\'s Day and the Sound of Wales$
Saint David's Day and the Sound of Wales

Raising the roof for Wales' patron saint
Church body welcomes Pinewood Studios to Wales

The Evangelical Alliance Wales has welcomed news that Pinewood Studios is to make films in Cardiff
RAKnominate challenges the NekNominate craze

Making random acts of kindness cool on social media
Marching not to war

Remembering those who would not fight in the Great War
Time to stop the God delusion

Cardiff event will ask the hard questions
New mission to Wales in 2014

Conference will call churches to think outside the box