All Premier Christianity articles in September 2014
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Archive newsMore must be done to achieve gender equality, claims synod member
Campaigners have welcomed the Church of England’s General Synod decision to allow the consecration of women bishops. Decades of resistance to the move were overcome at the synod’s meeting in York after a sufficient number of opponents was persuaded that adequate safeguards were in place to protect the position of Anglo-Catholics and some evangelical Anglicans.
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Archive contentVanishing Act
A new book written by a secular New Yorker suggests that our self-promotion culture has its values badly wrong. It might just be the most important message the Church could hear in 2014.
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Archive newsUnexpected support for assisted dying bill
Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have surprised some Christian groups by speaking out in favour of the proposed assisted dying bill.
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Archive contentBehold the Man
When you notice an addict living on the street, what do you see? One Christian and former addict's creative response to the complexities of homelessness and addiction prompts us to look and think again.
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News in brief
Tony Palmer dies in motorbike accident, Sudanese churches and National Transplant Week.
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Cricket for a cause
Anglican and Roman Catholic cricket teams will face each other in Canterbury in September in a match designed to raise awareness about slavery and human trafficking.
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Archive contentThe course that changed my life
Joy Tibbs and Lucinda van der Hart discover how church-run courses are being used by God to transform lives across the UK.
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InterviewsCharlotte Gambill: The popular preacher on leading Life Church and discipling women
Lucinda van der Hart meets Charlotte Gambill, who is following in her father Paul Scanlon’s footsteps in leading Life Church, Bradford.
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Archive newsChristian leaders press for peace in Gaza as death toll mounts
Calls for a ceasefire in Gaza were intensifying as Premier Christianity went to press, with Christian leaders calling for reconciliation and a lasting peace.
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Committed Christian takes on education secretary role
The new education secretary named in Prime Minister David Cameron’s cabinet reshuffle is a Christian and a trustee of the Conservative Christian Fellowship. Corporate lawyer and MP for Loughborough Nicky Morgan has rapidly climbed the ranks since she was elected in 2010.
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Archive newsHelp offered as Iraqi Christians flee Mosul
The French government has announced that it will offer asylum to Iraqi Christians who have been forced to flee their homes.
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Archive newsScottish churches debate independence referendum
Scotland will go to the polls in September in a hotly contested referendum, and while Scottish churches have appeared neutral in their public announcements, they have certainly engaged in the debate. Key to the concerns of Christians on both sides has been the desire to establish a fairer and godlier society.
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Archive contentDisconnect in order to connect
Lucy Mills explores how, in this fast-paced technological age, we can still engage in the spiritual disciplines – and why we need to.
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Archive content'Tonight's not the night you're going to die'
When Jannine Ebenso answered the call of God to serve in Nigeria with The Leprosy Mission, little did she know that armed robbery and sexual assault at gunpoint lay ahead.
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Magazine Features
Whatever you did for the least of these...
When a beautifully produced book by photographer Marksteen Adamson landed on my desk I was immediately transfixed. Who knew that images of a homeless drug addict could be so arresting?
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Archive contentTheology test your worship songs
What happens when you put the lyrics of some of our best-known worship songs under the theological microscope?
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Reviews
Beyond the Edge: Spiritual Transitions for Adventurous Souls
Mayes uses his extensive knowledge of the Holy Land to illuminate his understanding of the gospel story and to help us gain a deeper appreciation of how Jesus challenged the thinking and understanding of his disciples as they followed him from person to person and from place to place.
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ReviewsRock of Ages
During his long career as a guitarist, Martin Cooper has played for acts such as Paul Oakley, Phatfish and Stuart Townend, as well as fronting Chasing Stars. He’s also the face of Survivor’s School-in-a-Box guitar tutorial DVDs.
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Archive contentThe Apologist: Don’t confuse Jesus with Che Guevara
Amy Orr-Ewing responds to the latest reinterpretation of Jesus in bestselling book, Zealot, by Reza Aslan.
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InterviewsQ&A: Jenny Baker
Following the release of her book Equals (SPCK), Jenny Baker spoke to Lucinda Borkett-Jones about gender roles in the Church, and the all-important question of who does the ironing in the Baker household.
