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'
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
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

In the beginning was the spoken word
God's word for people who find it hard to sit and read it

Groundbreaking charity needs financial boost
It's helped thousands of others in Wales and now it's in need.

Completing what Wilberforce began
Will 2014 see the end of slavery?

Christmas in Cymru
It's the season of the dodgy trinity