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This Christianity Stuff Is Serious

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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Observations Politics

Keeping Our Eyes Wide Shut

This is a bit of a follow on from my recent post on the Gospel and responding to human need. It seems to me that one of the reasons that those of us in richer countries don’t respond to the needs of the poor is that we spend so much of our effort worrying about […]

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Church: World

A Christian Response to Natural Disasters

It has been a windy old morning here in Southern England and I didn’t get a great deal of sleep listening to the wind and rain trying to get in through our bedroom window. However, I do recognise that we don’t really have much to complain about with our weather here, we rarely get hit […]

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Observations

A very moving Blog

I am recommending this blog with a slight amount of trepidation. It’s not the sort of thing I normally cover here, put it simply it’s the story of 18 months in a young man’s life. It’s incredibly moving and thought provoking but, the language is robust (very robust!) and you shouldn’t bother looking at it […]