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ELCA Presiding Bishop's 2006 Easter Message
The Easter Gospel lesson from John ends with Mary Magdalene's cry of faith, "I have seen the Lord." Mary -- vigilant, faithful and weeping -- is the first to declare her faith in the risen Lord...
Pastor Jonathan Oloyede: A Call to Prayer
I arrived in London in the summer of 1991, back to the place of my birth and childhood. My memory bank regularly replays the first glimpse of the green chequered English fields from my window seat...
Rev Steve Chalke: Local Strategic Partnership
When Poole Council approached the local churches with a challenge, they were ready to respond. “If you’re serious about working to bring healing and restoration in people’s lives...
Rev Malcolm Duncan: Good Practice and Public Benefit
Winston Churchill once described Russia as a ‘riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma’. I have no doubt that many church leaders would say the same thing about the Charity Commission...
Pastor Oloyede: A New Britain?
I will touch on a vision for Britain under seven broad topics; Community, Church, Culture, Cohesion, Corporate, Country and Creed...
Rev Rob Frost: Never on a Sunday...
I've become increasingly dissatisfied with the dry institutional deadness of much of what I see on offer in my local church each Sunday...
Rev Malcolm Duncan: Time For a Change
I’ve just come across some startling research. Work done for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation by the New Policy Institute shows that around 12 million people in the United Kingdom were living in poverty in 2003 / 2004...
Pastor Jonathan Oloyede: The Emerging Black Church
“Praise the Lord! Every body ppraaaaise the Lord!” bellowed the preacher from behind the glass pulpit. HALELUYAH! Resounded the congregation in perfect resonance...
Rev Rob Frost: A New Kind Of Evangelism
I was schooled in traditional ways of ‘doing evangelism.’ I was taught how to preach at a mega-decibel pitch in open air meetings, and how to use the wind to carry my voice! I was introduced to the subtle art of door to door witness...
Rev Steve Chalke: Chalke and Change - Enterprise Culture
In the late 1980’s, following the closure of coal pits, a rail manufacturing depot and various other local industries, North Doncaster found itself one of the most economically deprived communities...
Pastor Jonathan Oloyede: The Vision
As we enter 2006, Pastor Jonathan Oloyede speaks of a vision for the revival of Britain, saying that Britain is now ripe for the harvest, and that young people are the catalyst for change...
Christmas Message from Salvation Army's General Larsson: 'The Gift Beyond Words'
Are you behind with getting your Christmas cards sent off? If so, you will sympathise with the woman who rushed into the card shop just before Christmas, snapped up a packet of 50 identical cards...
Archbishop of Canterbury Releases Christmas Message
The Archbishop of Canterbury, spiritual head of more than 70-million Anglicans worldwide, and head of the Church of England has released a Christmas statement. Even though the Archbishop has endured a tough year...
Christmas Message 2005 from the World Council of Churches General Secretary
It was in the midst of last year's Christmas season that the December 26th tsunami killed thousands of people on the shores of the Indian Ocean. Who can forget the images of the killer waves...
How to Get the Punters in the Pews
Can anything halt the numerical decline going on presently in most mainline Christian denominations? Whenever this question is asked, one obvious clue to an answer seems to get missed. It is a fact that in every part of the country, there are churches that are cheerfully bucking the trend ...
Engineering Disabled Embryos: the Race to be First
How should Christians react to this bioindustrial use of human embryos? Those who have read David Jones’ absorbing new book The Soul of the Embryo will be aware of the complex history of Christian thought on ensoulment. The earliest strand of Christian tradition made no distinction between early and late abortion ...