All Premier Christianity articles in March 2015
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InterviewsQ&A: Sue Rinaldi
Sue Rinaldi has released three solo albums since leaving chart-topping band Heartbeat in 1991. Ahead of leading worship at Spring Harvest, she tells Joy Tibbs about the wrestling she has done with God over the years, and about her new album Ethos.
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Archive contentUpcycled Earth
Our planet will one day become our renewed eternal home, so we had better look after it, says David Instone-Brewer.
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Archive contentDid God command genocide in the Old Testament?
One of the most frequent objections to Christianity concerns violence in the Old Testament. Critics claim that God’s command to the Israelite army to completely destroy the Canaanites and other enemy tribes (Deuteronomy 20:17) amounts to ethnic cleansing. Responding to this month’s thorny question, Peter J Williams, a speaker at this year’s Spring Harvest, helps us understand the issues.
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Archive contentIs the Church failing gay Christians?
Whatever badge they wear, same-sex attracted believers need church support. Steve Chalke and Sean Doherty share different views on how that should happen.
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Archive contentThe stories behind the songs
We sing them in church every Sunday, but have you ever stopped to wonder how a song came to be? Joy Tibbs explores the backstory behind some of our favourite worship anthems...and a few less familiar ones.
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Regular Columnists
Age before beauty
School taught me how many wives Henry VIII had, helped me glean information about Australia’s mining industry and even taught me the French word for ‘station’, but nobody told me anything about the one thing you never believe will happen when you’re young but happens to every human on the planet.
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Archive contentThe Godpreneurs
‘The disciple stands as an envoy or a receiver by which the kingdom of God is conveyed into every quarter of human affairs.’
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Archive contentHow beautiful are the beats
Most rap music comes with a ‘parental advisory’ warning on the album cover. But Guvna B, one of a number of rising UK artists, says a new generation is injecting hope into the hip-hop scene.
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Archive contentFrom atheist reporter to Christian activist
American journalist Sara Miles was an atheist when she found herself wandering into a church and taking Communion. Since then, she has founded a ministry known as The Food Pantry, which she describes as an extension of the Eucharist.
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Archive news
Home Office gives YWAM fresh hope
The Home Office has reinstated international Christian volunteer organisation Youth With A Mission England’s (YWAM’s) licence to sponsor visa applications after it imposed sanctions following ‘clerical issues’.
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Archive contentRuth Padilla DeBorst
Theologians are sometimes perceived as dry, dusty eggheads, but that image couldn’t be more wrong where Ruth Padilla DeBorst is concerned. A leading Latin American voice in a movement that aims to make theology more relevant to everyday life, Padilla DeBorst has worked in mission extensively and lives in an intentional community.
