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 [...]
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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 [...]
Once more we had a great time at Costa Coffee. It is a good place to be on a Sunday evening, with a group of friends, relaxing in a nice place. Once a month our church does church in Costa and this time it was ‘Costa Del Soul’s Got Talent’ – an open mic night. [...]
Have you signed the petition yet? I have. Christians are being encouraged to sign a petition (and to invite Christian friends to do the same) to the Prime Minister asking for the removal of schedule 9, paragraph 2, subsection 8 of the Equality Bill: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/harryhammond/ “We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Remove the [...]
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 [...]