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Big Ben is Watching You
Mark Greene is gripped by Ben Elton's new crime thriller Dead Famous and meets the first positive popular portrayal of a Christian since, well, since...
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I love being a Bishop
Bishop James Jones is one of the most dynamic communicators in the Church of England. A regular on radio, TV and in print, Jones is an evangelical with a mission to communicate with the person in the street. Tipped by many as a future Archbishop of Canterbury, John Buckeridge asked the questions.
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Look Before You Leap: Researching Your Community's Needs
In the third of his Faithworks series, Steve Chalke takes a look at the importance of honestly assessing the real needs of your local community before engaging your church in social action.
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In Bed With The Devil?
In the second of his Faithworks series Steve Chalke unpacks some of the growing opportunities for partnership with local government and other agencies.
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Church Invisible Episode Seven: Life's a Beach
Returning from a meeting on 'the future of the church' Nick Page is flung into the future, to the year 2040. He discovers that church buildings are now regarded as museums and the Anglican Church in Britain a pale shadow of its former life, with the recent General Synod held in a back room of the Rose and Crown in Tooting. He finds that bureaucracy, outdated training methods and increasing detachment from community were amongst the reasons for the demise.
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Children Baptised in the Spirit
Ishmael (otherwise known as the Revd Ian Smale) is synonymous with creative and vibrant children's ministry. In this extract from his book 'Reclaiming A Generation', he calls renewed churches to include children when they pray for people to be filled with the Spirit. And as for the gift of tongues, why not?
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Avoid a Shrivelled Soul
Are your daily choices enlarging your heart or shrivelling your soul? Paul Borthwick outlines 10 life-enhancing strategies for developing spiritual resilience and vitality.
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Ask The Expert
Makeover experts like Susannah and Trinny are part of a growing genre of TV 'call for the expert' shows. Churches are also hiring consultants to help them cope with change or develop a new strategy. Andy Peck investigates...
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Rumours of Another World
Philip Yancey invites us to tune into 'rumours of another world' and connect the seen with the unseen, in this exclusive extract from his new book.
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Retrofuture: The Age of Paradox
You can learn a lot from looking at a light bulb. Just over 100 years ago physicist Max Planck did just that, and wondered what the steady, yellow glow around the bulb was caused by. The glow defied existing theories of the behaviour of light, and to explain it Planck had to invent the idea of the 'quantum', a tiny 'packet' of energy at the heart of light itself. Planck's solution soon had physicists the world over discussing the 'duality' of light – the idea that it functions both as a wave and as a particle. Out of this duality was born Quantum Theory – on which much of the science of the 20th century has been based.
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Actions Speak Louder Than Words
With the General Election imminent, Steve Chalke unpacks the fourth and final point of the Faithworks Declaration as he calls on the incoming Government to end the discrimination and suspicion which fact-based organisations face.
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Archive contentA heart for the religiously abused
Andy Peck talks to best-selling author Phillip Yancey whose books have helped many believers who feel bruised or even abused by their church.
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Archive contentSpiritual Abuse
How do you recognise spiritual abuse? What are the causes and effects, and what practical steps can a victim take?
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What Jesus Might Say to Lord Dearing about Church Schools and Christian Education
Steve Chalke continues his series examining people and issues in the news and asking what Jesus might say.
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Archive contentWho cares about Granny?
The care system for the elderly has been in crisis for several years with private care homes finding it increasingly difficult to make ends meet. Catherine Butcher talks to Christians working in this sector who seek to provide a good quality and caring environment for the elderly.
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What Might Jesus Say to Roy Clements About the Church and the Homosexual Debate
In his series examining people and issues in the news, Steve Chalke considers Roy Clements and the Church and the Homosexual debate
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Grace Abounding
Sophia Mwangi visits an international west London Church which majors on teaching its members who they are in Christ.
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2000 Years of Rows...
What happens when Christians disagree? Is there an alternative to unholy arguments in the life of the Church? John Martin investigates...
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Why Me?
Two believers are diagnosed with terminal cancer. One dies, one is healed. Why?
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Archive contentThe danger of ‘It’s a girl’
In the light of a controversial legal decision, Lucinda Van der Hart looks at the rise of gender-selective abortion in the UK.
