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Aung San Suu Kyi and the Bible
Interesting to hear Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's Pro-Democracy leader, say on Desert Island Discs, that her grandfather was a converted Christian and that she used to read the Bible to him every evening. He was, she said, the...
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Full text of Steve Holmes response to Steve Chalke on homosexuality and hermeneutics
Homosexuality & hermeneutics: creating counter-cultural communities by Steve Holmes I respect and admire Steve Chalke, and have enjoyed working with him from time to time over the years. People in my extended family were converted to Christianity through Steve's youth evangelism...
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Full text of Steve Chalke’s article “A Matter of Integrity”
A MATTER OF INTEGRITY: The Church, sexuality, inclusion and an open conversation By Rev. Steve Chalke Thoughtful conformity to Christ - not unthinking conformity to either contemporary culture or textual prohibitions - should be our unchanging reference point. I feel both compelled and...
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David Suchet (Poirot) to uncover the story of Paul
In a major new series for BBC1, actor David Suchet sets out on a personal journey around the Mediterranean to uncover the story of a man he has longed to play - the biblical Saint Paul. Paul did more than...
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Tom Wright on women bishops
“But that would be putting the clock back,” gasps a feckless official in one of C. S. Lewis’s stories. “Have you no idea of progress, of development?” “I have seen them both in an egg,” replies the young hero. “We...
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When the President welcomed the man from Bristol to the White House
George Muller looked after 10,000 children in Bristol in the nineteenth century and the Foundation he established still flourishes today. His belief that God answers prayer has made his name a byword for faith throughout the world. On a...
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Fabrice Muanda’s remarkable story
Fabrice Muamba was on a BBC Radio 5Live special talking about his recovery from a heart attack. In the half-hour-long interview, Muamba spoke to Reading striker Jason Roberts about how he's coming to terms with the situation – having...
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Where England’s oldest canal begins
The Exeter canal was begun in 1564 - 200 years before the main era of canal building in England. Here it was last Saturday at the point where it begins with the river Exe to the right and the...
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John Stott and James Bond
On the 50th anniversary of the first James Bond film, you may be surprised to learn that, late in his life, John Stott developed a taste for Bond films - so much so that the librarian at the London...
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What Disraeli said in his novel Sybil about ‘one nation’
"Well, society may be in its infancy," said Egremont slightly smiling; "but, say what you like, our Queen reigns over the greatest nation that ever existed." "Which nation?" asked the younger stranger, "for she reigns over two." The stranger paused; Egremont...
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