BIBLE
The Disarming Compassion of God
Earlier this month, I had the honour of giving the Bible Readings at Week 3 of the Keswick Convention. In part because my day job
31st August 2021
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christian social action
20th Century
Q Marks The Spot 151 (May 2021 Treasure Map)
Sacred Treasure Unherd is a site full of slightly outside-the-box or non-PC writing with some fascinating contributors like Douglas Murray, Giles Fraser and Tom Holland.
1st May 2021
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21st Century
Beirut Disaster: An Inspiring & Personal message from Trivina Kassis
The news from Beirut this week was horrendous. It was all just so NEEDLESS. A catalogue of criminality, responsibility-avoidance coupled with the impotence of those
7th August 2020
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20th Century
Echoes from Eternity 3. Alan Paton
Alan Paton (1903-1988) was a South African who spent decades fighting against the apartheid system. He was a founding member of the Liberal Party of
20th March 2020
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20th Century
When Uncle John wrote a letter that actually did change the world
Regulars will know that John Stott is a frequent focus here. I’ve just finished reading Alister Chapman’s excellent, scholarly engagement with John Stott’s legacy: Godly Ambition.
6th January 2019
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21st Century
Q Marks The Spot – Treasure Map 114 (February 2018)
Sacred Treasure David Robertson is often uncomfortably provocative – but he’s probably on the money here: 10 ‘prophecies’ for the church in 2018 An inspiring
1st February 2018
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christian social action
Taking the UK’s social temperature: Spurgeons 2017 Parent Report
An old friend, Ross Hendry, is the chief exec of Spurgeon’s Children’s Charity, a UK organisation (no, that’s not him on the left, that’s Spurgeon).
15th July 2017
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All Souls Langham Place
A Model of Political Preaching: Judicial wisdom on Immigration
I very rarely tweet about talks I’ve heard – not because they haven’t been good necessarily, but because I usually think even the better ones tend
30th April 2015
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All Souls Langham Place
Facing up to the UK Adoption crisis
For some reason, the British church has been very slow to take up the challenge of adoption. This is a tragedy. As things stand at the
4th April 2014
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CHRISTIAN LIFE
The dehumanising metrics of modernist ministry 3: The Past
No man is an island entire of itself said the prophetic priest-poet of old. Modernism and its western offspring, individualism, have done their utmost to prove
2nd August 2012
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CHRISTIAN LIFE
The dehumanising metrics of modernist ministry 2: The Future
Having speculated a little about how the prevailing winds of modernist culture affect our perceptions of the present, I now want to think about how
24th July 2012
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All Souls Langham Place
Three blind-spots of the Western Church from Vinoth Ramachandra
Vinoth Ramachandra has had links with All Souls for quarter of a century – and he and his wife Karin have been mission partners for
7th November 2011
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