All Archive content articles – Page 33
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Archive contentThe Intractable Issue of Syria
As politicians globally discuss whether and how to intervene, Greg Downes seeks to bring a Christian perspective.
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How rich is too rich?
Jesus said it would be easier for a camel to get through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. As some of the richest people on earth, are we ignoring a fundamental part of our discipleship by not engaging seriously with this passage?
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Archive contentPutting our house in order
Since the Jimmy Savile abuse story broke last October, not a month has passed without a fresh allegation of sexual assault by authority figures.
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What happened next
After 2012 confounded Mayan predictions and turned out to be a feel-good epic, how on earth could the next year possibly live up to it? Martin Saunders looks at how 2013's biggest events unfolded at home, abroad, and within the Church.
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Archive contentThe Search for The Presence of God
As reports of outpourings spread across the UK, what do we mean by the presence of God, and how we can experience it? No one – except perhaps the occasional, elite revival-watcher – expected there to be a dramatic move of the Holy Spirit somewhere in Wales this year. But Victory Church, Cwmbran has reported numerous healings, having had ‘outpouring meetings’ every night of the week since April.
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Archive contentGive like you mean it
As consumption goes up at Christmas, so too does our charitable giving. Is this spike a good thing? Christmas is the season of giving: time, money, brown paper packages tied up with string. It’s as if we supercharge our benevolence for one month of the year and it takes us the other 11 to recover (and plan) for the next.
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Archive contentFresh Fruit
Ten years after its birth, the Fresh Expressions movement has become part of the ecclesiological furniture. But, asks Lucinda Borkett-Jones, has it managed to maintain its pioneering spirit?
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Archive contentFit for purpose
With national obesity rates rising and the fitness industry booming, is there a more sensible middle way?
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Playing with Fire
Swipe right if you would, left if you wouldn’t. Thanks to smartphone app Tinder, 21st century speed dating has picked up the pace...
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Trafficking Report finds "Shocking Underworld"
Christian campaigners have reacted to a new thinktank report that says the government is ‘clueless’ about the scale of human trafficking in the UK.
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Archive contentFaith and Forgiveness
5 years after Jimmy Mizen was murdered in south London, his parents Barry Five years after Jimmy Mizen was murdered in a bakery in south London, Ruth Dickinson talks to his parents Barry and Margaret about their journey of peace.
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Archive contentToday's Young People Face Increasing Pressure of Sexualisation
Christian organisations are reacting to concerns about the increasing ‘sexualisation of children’, as highlighted in a recent article by journalist Cole Moreton.
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Two Views: Does Street Evangelism work?
Are the days of public evangelistic rallies behind us, or should we get over our British reserve and get stuck in?
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Archive contentWhy Words are Not Enough
Greg Downes on being, saying and doing the Gospel Do we ask the right questions? Greg Downes wonders what society is really asking, and how we can respond.
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Archive contentNo more happy endings
A string of dark British TV dramas have proved to be major ratings winners. So why are millions of viewers trading the traditional good-defeats-evil story for something much bleaker?
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Archive contentThe Path to Elysium
It may be a heavy-handed allegory, but Neill Blomkamp’s sci-fi blockbuster is part of a wave of recent films concerned with humanity’s future – none of which imagine it to be bright.
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Archive contentRob Parsons: Some of us have spent our whole lives trying to sing somebody else’s song
I’m not sure what made me do it. One minute I was at a wedding reception sitting quietly at a table, the next I was on stage in front of a karaoke machine belting out ‘Suspicious Minds’.
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Archive contentJohn and Ele Mumford
John and Ele Mumford never intended to plant a church, but God had other ideas. The veteran founders of the Vineyard movement in the UK talk to Lucinda van der Hart about Wimber, miracles and becoming charismatic (but not a word about Mumford and Sons).
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Archive contentEgypt
Democracy doesn’t happen overnight. Two years after the Arab Spring, is Egypt experiencing ‘birth pains’, or will it all spiral out of control? Jonathan Langley investigates.
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Archive contentEditorial
On Maundy Thursday, Pope Francis chose not to hold the customary foot-washing in one of the main churches in Rome, as is tradition, but went instead to wash the feet of some young offenders. He took the bus instead of the papal limousine, and has turned down the papal apartment (he thinks it’s too big) in favour of simpler accommodation. The list goes on.
