Christianity
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When Rowan Williams saw Jesus as he had never seen him before
While specialist theologians regard Archbishop Rowan Williams as a creative and powerful thinker, others often find him complex and difficult to follow. I shall never forget sitting in the sunshine on a summer afternoon in the beautiful Cathedral Close in...
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Inside Story: ´best biography he has read´
In ´Evangelicals Now´ for February 2010, Baptist Minister Rick Battenfield wrote this of Roger´s ´Inside Story´: In reading this biography of John Stott the reader will find that the title of the book is eminently appropriate. One does feel like...
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Sitting at the feet of the Abbot of Buckfast
Sunday 9 October 2011 Yesterday, at a Biblefresh Festival at the Mint Methodist Church in Exeter, I joined a group led by Father Abbot David of Buckfast Abbey. The Abbot talked engagingly and inspirationally about Benedictine Spirituality and Lectio divina...
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Amazon review says ‘Inside Story’ a ‘must-read for all thinking Christians’
Describing 'Inside Story' as the 'biography of the year' an Amazon customer has written: 'Roger Steer has produced a gripping and very readable biography of one of the great spiritual leaders of our time. John Stott's contribution to evangelical Christianity,...
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Benedictine and Presbyterian: a shared delight
Friday 16 September 2011 I am just leaving for a meeting of Christian writers at Buckfast Abbey. Since time immemorial, deer have been drawn to graze in the sheltered meadows which line the banks of the river Dart in this...
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Stott on fundamentalist, liberal, evangelical
Friday 29 July 2011 In his debate with the distinguished liberal thinker, David Edwards, John Stott developed a little parable. It used flight as a picture of freedom and sought to characterise (but not he hoped caricature) the essential difference between...
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A N Wilson´s return to faith
Friday 15 May 2009 I used to read A N Wilson with profit in his Christian years, was sad when he appeared to abandon faith, but am delighted that he has returned to such a strong and articulate faith. Do take...
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Guarding the Holy Fire
Baker, Grand Rapids, USA, May 1999 From Wycliffe and Tyndale, Cranmer and the prayer book, Latimer and Ridley, Hooker and Herbert, Whitefield and Wesley, Newton and Simeon in England - Devereaux Jarrett and Alexander Griswold, Philander Chase and Charles...
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Guarding the Holy Fire
Bishop FitzSimons Allison of Georgetown, South Carolina, wrote: 'This excellent history of the evangelical tradition of Anglicanism should go a long way in dispelling the enormous ignorance that characterises much of our American church. Roger Steer has a wonderful feel...
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Church on Fire
Hodder and Stoughton, May 1998 The Story of Anglican Evangelicals. A major survey of the Anglican church on both sides of the Atlantic. Roger Steer charts the contribution Evangelicals have made to the Anglican story and captures the zeal, commitment...
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