This week's Illustrators

Adult & All Age and Children & Youth

Discovering God

Ladybird, Sam Stephenson/Alamy Stock Photo
Bird house, Carlos G. Lopez/Shutterstock.com

Back cover image

Big Summer Holiday Bucket List, Lindsay Wright

 

Weekly/First impression images

2 July Three friends talking, Sell Vector/Shutterstock.com

9 July Agreement, Cynthia Christine
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16 July Rhandir, Valériane Leblond

23 July Community garden, Paul Harris/Science Photo Library

30 July Looking Up, Thu Nguyen

6 August Breakfast, Prostock-studio/Alamy Stock Photo

13 August Adrift, Roman Bodnarchuk/Shutterstock.com

20 August Humanity where are you?, Peter Marshall Alamy Stock Photo

27 August Skateboarder, Gordon Scammell Alamy Stock Photo

 

Adult & All Age only

Front cover image: Dream Chaser, Cindy Thornton

30 July Sunlight on field; Figure, pearl, cup both by Jenny Ellis for ROOTS

 

Children & Youth only

Front cover image: Looking Up, Thu Nguyen

 

Share the Word images

2 & 23 July Andy Gray

9 & 30 July, and 13 & 27 August, Geoff Hays

16 July and 6 & 20 August, Stu McLellan

This week's Writers

ROOTS is a joint Churches’ initiative, supported by Churches Together in Britain and Ireland along with representatives from the Churches and church publishers throughout the UK and Ireland.

 

Writers for issue 126 were:

Emma Anderton, children and families missioner

Joel Denno, Anglican licensed lay minister and freelance writer

Jenny Ellis, Methodist minister

Yvonne Hendrie, Church of Scotland minister

Emily Hoe-Crook, Methodist deacon

Alison Hulse, Methodist learning and development officer

Simon Jones, senior research fellow, Spurgeon's College

Pete Kelsall, Methodist local preacher

Becky May, freelance writer

Chine McDonald, writer and broadcaster

Steve Taylor, Anglican priest

Brenda Vance, URC elder

Gillian Warson, music in worship adviser

Cathy Westby, community and family worker

Caroline Wickens, Methodist minister

Lindsay Wright, freelance writer