Britain

Britain Doesn’t Want to Understand the Bible

by Eddie 01.07.2009

The Independent reports an interesting survey which was carried out on behalf of the Centre for Biblical Literacy at St. John’s Durham. The public is widely ignorant of the stories and people who provide the basis of Christianity, a survey has found, despite 75 per cent of respondents owning a copy of the Bible. The [...]

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Religion and Public Service

by Eddie 09.02.2009

After Caroline Petrie’s suspension for offering to pray for a patient and her subsequent reinstatement, there are a number of other cases of problems for Christians in public service. According to the Telegraph, teachers could be disciplined for discussing relgion with their pupils. I’m always slightly suspicious of ‘could be’ news stories, because there is [...]

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This Christianity Stuff Is Serious

by Eddie 15.09.2008

The British media has been convulsed with stories about Creationism over the last few days. But while questions of origins are important, it is the way is the power of the Gospel to transform lives and help people to face the most heartbreaking parts of life that we should really be focussing on. A remarkable [...]

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Ethnicity of English Church Goers

by Eddie 03.08.2008

The latest edition of the Lausanne World Pulse has an interesting article by Peter Brierly on the ethnic make up of churches in the UK. Today, one person in six (seventeen percent) who goes to church in England is non-white. This is up from twelve percent in 1998. Black church people make up ten percent [...]

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Dignity in Work

by Eddie 25.01.2008

I was very moved by the story of the closure of the Tower Pit in South Wales. This is the last deep coal mine in the Wales coalfield and it’s closure marks the end of an era. In a way, it’s hard to be sad at the end of an industry which was physically so [...]

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Christianity is Negative…

by Eddie 04.01.2008

A while ago I wrote a post entitled religion is harmful. David Couchman has a review of a book called Unchristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks About Christianity…and Why It Matters which picks up a similar theme and shows that young people in the US have an overwhelmingly negative view of the Church. I’m [...]

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Islam in the UK

by Eddie 11.12.2007

I’ve always liked Jasmin Alibhai-Brown, even when I don’t agree with her. Her article in today’s Independent on the reality of life for Muslims in the UK makes great reading. Around this time of the year, my mum, Jena, a devout Shia Muslim, who died last year, would ask to be taken to see the [...]

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The Best View in Britain

by Eddie 10.09.2007

Apparently the viewers of an ITV programme have chosen the view of Wastwater as the best view in the United Kingdom. It just goes to show that phone in votes do sometimes get things right. For my money the view down Wasdale to Great Gable is by far the best view that Britain has to [...]

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