Christianity
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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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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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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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