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To the Faithful – A Crisis for the Church in the 21st Century As the Covid-19 pandemic sweeps across the world, and country after country goes into lockdown, Barnabas Fund is working to give urgent practical aid to poor, discriminated and persecuted Christians whose lives are now afflicted by the virus as well. Lockdown is…
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By CEN The persecution of Christians worldwide has never been more severe. A few examples will give you the flavour of what’s happening… Islamic State turned churches throughout Iraq into torture chambers for Christians. All who refused to convert to Islam suffered prolonged agonies and thousands were killed. Abu Aasi, a witness, reported: “They were blindfolded…
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By Rollin Grams Revelation 7:9 After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, Read this passage in the Modernist, colonial era from a postmillennial (i.e., basically that the…
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15 Nov 2018 Author: Andrew Symes In 2003 Jeffrey John was put forward by the Crown Nominations Commission as Bishop of Reading in the Diocese of Oxford. John[1] had for some time been publicly arguing for the church to accept and bless same sex relationships. His good friends the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, and Bishop…
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Silent Anglicans Why evangelicals in the Church of England (and ACSA) need to talk openly By Peter Sanlon https://www.e-n.org.uk/ August 27, 2018 One year before WWI broke out, Winston Churchill wrote a memo: ‘Timetable of a Nightmare.’ It predicted details of the coming war. Churchill frequently warned of the danger his country faced — the…
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Author: Andrew Boyd Cattle rustlers have attacked the home of the Nigerian Archbishop of Jos, Benjamin Kwashi. The Anglican Archbishop was at home at the time, with some 60 orphans in his care when the raiders struck. They seized nine cows and shot and killed a neighbour who challenged them by shining a torch in…
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By ROD DREHER Irish abortion rights protesters says whores are more important than unborn children. Her side won (abd/Shutterstock) Exit polling shows that Ireland has voted in a landslide — 68 percent to 32 percent— to change the constitution to legalize abortion. Among 18 to 24 year olds, the pro-abortion vote was 87 percent. Even rural Ireland,…
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Daniel Lattier | April 26, 2018 | 7,900 In graduate school, one of the most helpful concepts I learned about was narrative theology. The basic premise behind it is that theologies are rooted in a narrative, or story, that forms the lens through which a religion’s adherents interpret the world. Christianity itself is a story,…
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Over the next few weeks I shall be posting a series of “Contentions” concerning the Anglican Church – touching on fundamentals of why we are or would want to be Anglican and thus part of something bigger than just a local church.
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Article by Joe Rigney Professor, Bethlehem College & Seminary God exists everywhere and everywhen. He is eternal and omnipresent. And not only is he present everywhere, he is everywhere pursuing us. He is the hunter, the king, the husband, approaching us at an infinite speed. Central to C.S. Lewis’s vision of the Christian life is…