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Category Archives: In the News
Power, Intersectionality and the Gospel
A brief look at our thirst for power and why the Gospel gives us an alternate vision Continue reading
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Virtual or Streamed Community – Is it Real Church?
We are living in unprecedented times. The whole world is in lockdown fearful of the great pandemic. It is Easter, but Church gatherings have been suspended, to be replaced in many places by online expressions. I was in a … Continue reading
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Does God Have Anything To Do With the Pandemic?
One of the most knotty questions that Christianity has to wrestle with is that of the problem of pain and suffering. Perhaps more academic and apologetic ink has been spilled in pursuit of an answer to this challenge, that theologians … Continue reading
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Do Missionaries Belong in Our Modern World?
Social and News Media has been abuzz in the last 48 hours with the news of a young American Missionary/Explorer named John Chau who was speared to death by a group of tribespeople from the Sentinel Islands – one of … Continue reading
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The most important injustice to set right?
We live in a busy world with increasing demands on our time and our resources. The phrase work-life balance is fairly new to this generation, but so many of us feel the stretch as we seek to answer the demands … Continue reading
Does God have One People or Two?
Is the nation of Israel still relevant today to believers in Jesus? Do those who are ethnic Jews have any place in the plans and purposes of God if they do not believe in Jesus? And what about the land … Continue reading
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Act of Killing and the Judeo-Christian Heritage we should not despise
The Act of Killing is a hard to watch, thought provoking 2012 documentary which won Best Documentary at the 2014 Bafta Awards. It follows certain Indonesian ‘death-squad’ leaders from the 1965-66 purge which saw 500,000 killed in the space of … Continue reading
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Malaysia Airlines Flight #370, Sensational News and Thinking about Death
The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been a sensational news story. CNN as well as a number of other news networks have seen their ratings spike due to this story as the (probable) deaths of 227 passengers and … Continue reading
World Vision’s Interesting Actions
It would have been interesting to have been a fly on the wall at World Vision over the last few days. On Monday they released a statement that they were changing their staff handbook to allow employees who were in … Continue reading
Can Homosexuality be “cured”?
There has been much in the news over the last few year about Christians trying to cure gays. Silly Christians… In California there is a current court battle about the proposed ban on gay conversion therapies for minors. Between 1952 … Continue reading
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