One of my daughters sent me the link to an excellent article on the demise of Emerging Church at WorldMag.com. Written by Anthony Bradley, in ‘Farewell Emerging Church, 1989-2010′ Bradley says that while the effects of the emerging church movement will linger for some time we will begin to see books praising and attacking the [...]
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Labour To Remove Free Speech Safeguard
Posted: 12th April 2010 by graham in Church, Culture, news_commentThe Labour Party has made a manifesto commitment to abolish a free speech safeguard introduced by Lord Waddington to a sexual orientation ‘hate’ crime law. The safeguard makes clear that criticising homosexual conduct, or encouraging someone to refrain from such conduct, is not in itself a crime. The free speech protection is backed by comedy [...]
Maryam and Marzieh’s Court Hearing has been set for Tuesday next, 13 April. They need our prayer. They spent 259 days in prison for their Christian faith. After their conditional release on 18th November 2009 from Iran’s Evin Prison, they have been convalescing and receiving medical treatment for the past five months. Both of them [...]
I have just signed the Westminster Declaration 2010. It is summarised in the following three statements: WE BELIEVE that protecting human life, protecting marriage, and protecting freedom of conscience are foundational for creating and maintaining strong families, caring communities and a just society. WE INVITE Christians of all denominations who subscribe to the historic Christian [...]
I was in a conversation recently and we were trying to decide how we could best sum up what the gospel is in as few words as possible. How about the following? “Reconciliation is now available between a lost and sinful humanity, and the holy God.” 84 characters including spaces. Of course that misses out [...]
I know about the Nooma videos with their super cool style and cosy chats about religious stuff. I have not watched many of them, in fact I have only seen one of them right through to the end. I had always assumed they were harmless and meant to be good discussion starters to provoke people [...]
Muslims Opt-out of NHS Superbug Guidance
Posted: 24th April 2010 by graham in Church, news_commentMuslim doctors and nurses have been allowed to opt-out of NHS hygiene rules in a move that has been blasted by critics as double standards. Critics compared the opt-out given to Muslims to cases of Christians being marginalised by the NHS. That is my gripe. Christian nurse Caroline Petrie was suspended for offering to pray [...]