Church History
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Charles Darwin’s support of Christian missionaries
During the last 15 years of his life, Charles Darwin became a supporter and donor to the South American Missionary Society (SAMS). He had become an admirer of Christian missionary work during his voyage on the Beagle, having first...
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John Wesley’s 23 questions to the University of Oxford
John Wesley (1703-91) The date is 24 August 1744. John Wesley is preaching at St Mary's, the university church at Oxford. He asks the clergy, dons and undergraduates 23 searching questions. How would they answer them today? 1 You venerable...
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John Wesley and the Bishop of Exeter
John Wesley (1703-91) John Wesley always claimed that he didn’t enjoy controversy. However due to the opposition which Methodism, which he founded, generated he was often drawn into controversy. When he began to write his second letter to Bishop...
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What happened after John Wesley visited St Paul’s
John Wesley (1703-91) No-one was demonstrating outside St Paul's cathedral when, on Wednesday 24 May 1738, at about five in the morning, John Wesley opened his Greek New Testament to these words: 'Thus he has given us through these...
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When John Stott’s voice echoed around the crypt of St Pauls
John Stott No one dreamt of demonstrating outside St Paul's cathedral when, on 21 December 1945, John Stott’s family made their way up Ludgate Hill to see him...
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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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Inside Story: The Life of John Stott
"A young boy perched on a church balcony, dropping paper pellets into the hats of the ladies beneath him, grows into the greatest Anglican of the last 100 years - with warmth, perception and sympathy, Roger Steer describes the lifelong journey of...
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‘Inside Story should be compulsory reading in theological colleges’
Mark Thompson, Head of Theology at Moore College in Sydney, has written: 'It is universally acknowledged that evangelicalism worldwide owes an enormous debt to God for the life and ministry of John Stott. His influence is genuinely immense. His...
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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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