All Archive content articles – Page 32
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Archive contentBack to the 1980s?
Benefit reforms have set the Church against the government again.
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Archive contentI wish they’d taught me…
How far does Bible college prepare students for the different spiritual, practical and emotionally demanding tasks they will encounter in their ministry? Lucinda van der Hart investigates...
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Archive contentSee you soon...
In November 2007, 21-year-old Jim Skinner lost his life to heroin while serving alongside missionary Jackie Pullinger to help recovering drug addicts in Hong Kong. More than five years on, Jim’s parents, Graeme and Philippa, reflect on their tragic bereavement
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Archive contentSun, Sea, and Starvation
Lucinda Borkett-Jones travels to Malawi to find out how the world is going hungry while the planet heats up. In our plastic-wrapped society, the relationship between people and the land is largely absent from daily life. Most of our bread comes ready-sliced courtesy of Hovis, not grown, threshed, milled and baked in our own backyard. It is difficult to fully grasp the link between ‘caring for the planet’ and how not doing so might affect our lifestyle. It’s all too easy to cling film our consciences and get on with life.
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Archive contentA Problem Shared: Struggles in Sunday School
A group of parents with special needs children have started to attend our church, which I am delighted about. However, the Sunday children’s groups have struggled to accommodate them. The children shout and talk throughout services, which is upsetting older worshippers in particular. How do we resolve the situation without offending or rejecting these new members?
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Archive contentPastoral Nightmares
We put five perplexing, but commonplace, pastoral scenarios to our panel of experts.
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New perspectives on Paul
With a whopping 1,700 pages, Paul and the Faithfulness of God (SPCK) is NT Wright’s most comprehensive work on Christianity’s most famous apostle. He talks to Justin Brierley about his love affair with the first century evangelist, and why his new book will continue to upset some Calvinists.
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Archive contentDoes Sex Need Rescuing?
In culture we’ve made an idol of sex. In church, we’ve made it a sin. But should sex be an act of worship? "Desire is part of our design" "We are destined for eternal ecstasy" "Sexual union is the main icon scripture uses to explain what heaven has in store for us"
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Archive contentA throne but no Messiah
Can a show full of gratuitous sex and violence and has no 'good' character, have anything to say to the Christian subculture?
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Archive contentMalcolm’s X-Factor
Martin Saunders enters the enigmatic world of Malcolm Gladwell, and discovers a man returning unexpectedly not just to the Bible, but also to his Christian roots.
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Archive contentRob Parsons: Tell them you love them
Just recently I got off a plane in Johannesburg, switched on my phone and saw a text message asking me to ring home immediately. I made the call during the short bus ride from the plane to the terminal and discovered that my good and dear friend, Bob, had died in his sleep.
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Archive contentLet's Be Reasonable
Would you be willing to go and debate with your local atheist society? Heather Tomlinson looks at the impact we can make when we stop leaning on others to evangelise for us and discuss our faith face to face.
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Archive contentA Life Less Misérable
Martin Saunders looks at how blockbuster musical Les Misérables – now out on DVD – can be powerfully harnessed to start conversations about God
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Archive contentLife with Leprosy
Sarah Lothian meets Dan and Babs Izzett, who are a living reminder that leprosy is not a thing of the past, but neither is it the final word.
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Archive contentLeadership Traps
Even the strongest leaders aren’t immune to tripping up occasionally. Greg Downes addresses some common pitfalls. ‘Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher, We all celebrate today, cos it’s one day closer to your death.’
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Killing in the name of...
It’s taken a long time for the world to notice the trouble in Central African Republic. But reports of beheadings and cannibalism are making it hard to ignore. Is this a religious conflict? Lucinda Borkett-Jones investigates.
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Archive contentRob Parsons: Just Do It
I had been complaining to a friend about an aspect of my life that I wished was different. To be honest, I can’t really remember what it was; it might have been my prayer life, my waistline, or my attitude to somebody whom I found difficult.
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Archive contentJust the two of us
You grow up, get married and have a family, right? Not always. Ruth Garner explores the pain and the pressure of childlessness, and asks how we can support those who are struggling with this heart-rending issue.
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Archive contentWill the real Jesus please stand up?
Justin Brierley examines the latest reinventions of the Jesus of history. Ten years on from Dan Brown’s bestselling The Da Vinci Code, fresh rumours of who Jesus really was still shift books in their hundreds of thousands.
