Church: World

Kingdom Without Borders

by Eddie 24.05.2010

Kingdom Without Borders: The Untold Story of Global Christianity by Mirian Adeney is an absolute cracking book and one that everyone interested in the development of the Church around the world must read. It isn’t a book about statistics, graphs and projections; it is simply a book of stories. Sometimes books of this sort can [...]

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Our True Place In The World

by Eddie 23.03.2010

Over the last week, we have recorded twice as many visitors to Kouya Chronicle as we would normally expect (about 250 per day). The reason for this is a short article I wrote about the African Christian leader Tokunboh Adeyemo who died last week. Today, eight of the top ten search terms which led to [...]

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Authentic Christianity

by Eddie 07.02.2010

This weekend, Sue and I visited the wonderful Fountains Abbey in North Yorkshire. The weather was cool and foggy, which gave an amazing atmosphere to the ruins. Which I hope comes across in these photographs. It must have been a hard life being a monk here through the hard winter months, and even the summers [...]

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From Burkina and Ivory Coast

by Eddie 03.08.2009

I’ve come across a couple of good pieces from West Africa today.  Jayne Chuter has just returned from a Wycliffe Engage Trip to Burkina Faso and has written a fascinating account. Well I am back safe and sound in England now. We had a remarkably smooth and unproblematic month, thanks to all your prayers: nobody [...]

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Be Careful What You Say

by Eddie 24.04.2009

Most people who have spent a lot of time in rural areas in the developing world end up with a load of funny stories to tell. You can read some of mine here – just don’t tell me if you don’t think they are funny. However, there is a fine line between legitimate travellers tales [...]

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Globalised Worship

by Eddie 11.04.2009

Imagine the scene; it’s just after midnight and there are two hundred or so young people who have just drifted together sitting on the floor and enthusiastically singing worship songs. That was the scene at Mission Net a couple of days ago. For me it had been a long day, including a successful seminar and [...]

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Iraqi Converts to Christianity

by Eddie 17.03.2009

This short Al Jezeera video is interesting. It has the same disdainful attitude to evangelicalism as much of the British media, which is rather interesting. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBUdRWjSxHI[/youtube] HT Glen Scrivener It would be interesting to know more about the historic Iraqi church and their relationship to these new movements. There is just one short comment which [...]

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Lausanne World Pulse: Jan 09

by Eddie 01.01.2009

The latest edition of the Lausanne World Pulse is out and has some very well worthwhile articles. The introductory piece has this lovely story: Through Alpha leaders, I learned of a Chinese woman (PhD student studying in the U.S.) who agreed to attend an Alpha course. An atheist, she nevertheless attended each week. After each [...]

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Missional Thoughts

by Eddie 07.10.2008

These are the notes for a talk that Jane, a friend of ours, gave at a Wycliffe meeting in Switzerland. I think it captures some really important thoughts and I’m very glad that she gave me the opportunity to share it with a wider world. BIG CLAIM Jesus left his disciples, his body the Church, [...]

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World Church Relations

by Eddie 02.07.2008

Ruth Gledhill has just posted an interesting link to a speech by Canon Gregory Cameron, deputy general secretary at the Anglican Communion Office. While the Canon was specifically adressing Anglican issues, almost everything he said could apply right across the ecclesiastical spectrum. You could change the word Anglican to Christian in the first of these [...]

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It’s AD 30 All Over Again

by Eddie 22.05.2008

Don’t take my word for it but watch this superb talk on the way in which the growth of the world church mirrors the book of Acts. It’s a 45 minute talk by Reggie McNeal and is amazingly funny and even more informative. It makes a very good counterpoint to my earlier posts on World [...]

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World Theology

by Eddie 21.05.2008

In a paper writing on the changes in World Mission from1910-2010 Andrew Walls writes: The Western theological academy is at present not well placed for leadership in the new  situation. It has been too long immersed in its local concerns, and often unaware of the transformation that has taken place in the Church. It is [...]

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