Politics

Darkness and Light

by Eddie 08.08.2010
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The British press have, rightly, been full of reports about the death of 10 Aid workers, including one British doctor, in Afghanistan over the weekend. The ten who died worked for a Christian Charity, the International Assistance Mission. IAM is a humanitarian organisation which has worked inside Afghanistan for forty years providing healthcare to people [...]

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Coalition, Culture and Symbol

by Eddie 27.04.2010

I apologise for the lack of blogging over the last week or so. I’m pretty much preoccupied with another writing project at the moment and don’t have a lot of spare time and even less spare energy! It looks as though my series on the election and mission may well never be completed – as [...]

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Making Your Mind Up

by Eddie 20.04.2010

Encouragement to vote from lots of the great and good in British political life: The video features the following political figures: Alastair Campbell, Nadine Dorries, Phil Willis, Nigel Farage, Peter Tatchell, Ann Widdecombe, Andrew Hawkins, Angus MacNeil, Chris Mullin, Cross party band MP4 (Greg Knight, Pete Wishart, Ian Cawsey, Kevin Brennan), Lynne Featherstone, The Original [...]

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Mission and the Election 3: Loving Service

by Eddie 17.04.2010

To respond to human need by loving service. Christians and Christian organisations have a long history of providing caring services to people in the UK. Even in a country as rich as ours, there are still many people who are in need of a helping hand in one way or another. The Christian response is [...]

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Mission and the Election 2: Nurturing Believers

by Eddie 16.04.2010

This is the second in a series which looks at the UK election through the grid of the Five Marks of Mission. To teach, baptise and nurture new believers. I don’t see anything that any of the parties are planning to do which will seriously impinge on the ability of the church to teach, baptise [...]

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Mission and the Election 1: Proclamation

by Eddie 15.04.2010

There has been a fair bit of chatter about the upcoming election in the UK in the Christian blogsphere. Mouse has helpfully summarised who is saying what. I thought I would try and take a slightly different tack by examining the election through the grid of Christian mission. Of course, that then opens up a [...]

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Soul Politics

by Eddie 13.04.2010

Most people in Britain are already bored by the election coverage (don’t worry, only three weeks to go). However, if you want to read insightful comment from a Christian point of view, I can’t recommend the Soul Politics blog highly enough. Soul Politics vanished a while ago, but it has re-appeared for the election period. [...]

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An Open Letter To Britain’s Politicians

by Eddie 06.04.2010

Let me start off by saying that I genuinely do not know who I will vote for in the upcoming election; this means that each of the major parties has the capacity to win or lose my vote. In case you are interested, here are some of the things that I will be looking for [...]

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Ancient and Endangered

by Eddie 04.04.2010

I was saddened to come across two related news items today. The first was from the Telegraph and concerns the Christian minority in Iraq. The campaign of violence against Christians is one of the most under-reported stories of Iraq since the invasion of 2003. And it could change the country’s character in a fundamental way; [...]

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The Standard of Political Debate

by Eddie 02.04.2010

As the election draws closer, the political parties are spending far more time criticising their opponents than they are saying anything positive about what they plan to do. The ever wonderful Matt captured this brilliantly in today’s Telegraph.  You could insert the names of any of the political parties in here and the joke would [...]

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Christianity is Not British

by Eddie 26.03.2010

That reliable rodent, the Church mouse has just come up with an amazing story from the British National Party. Nick Griffin the party leader has often claimed that Christianity is indigenous to Britain, unlike Islam, Hinduism and the rest. Of course, Christianity is actually indigenous to the Middle East, though it adapts to any culture. [...]

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Reading the Bible Carefully

by Eddie 21.03.2010

It is time that we read our Bibles more and read them more carefully. Perhaps we could try and get some serious help in thinking about the circumstances of those to whom the Biblical messages were addressed, the people of the Bible. They were people who lived in a country which was always liable to [...]

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