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Is the Church of England doing religion without the Holy Spirit?

November 27, 2017
Archbishop Cranmer
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Much has been written about the Holy Spirit, or the Holy Ghost, or the Paraclete; the third person (hypostasis) of the Trinity. In fact, so much has been written over the centuries that there cannot possibly be any more to…

Balfour 100: we are not ashamed of (re-)creating the State of Israel

November 2, 2017
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A hundred years ago today, the Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour wrote to Lord Rothschild, leader of British Jewry, to convey the intention of the UK Government to re-establish the nation…

Bishop Philip North is good news for the poor – what a shame he’s sidelined

August 4, 2017
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It is #GoodNewsFriday – space and time to tell of God's love, miracles, joy, hope and peace – and Bishop Philip North provides today's subject matter. Here are a few…

London Bridge terror attack: they shouted “This is for Allah!”, as the Holy Spirit descended for Pentecost

June 4, 2017
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Just as the nation was crowning techno-pianist Tokio Myers the winner of Britain's Got Talent, a few more Islamists decided to stage their own version of the show on London…

Remembrance Day: there’s a long, long trail a-winding..

November 13, 2016
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A long trail of prophets and dark prophecies precedes the apocalypse. When you're dead, you don't care. When you're partly living with no eyes, one leg and half a mind,…

Salt & Light: the gospel, the EU, and the misappropriation of God's word

June 7, 2016
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Steve Thomas is the International Team Leader of Salt & Light - "an international family of churches together on mission". Their core commitments are impeccably orthodox and undeniably evangelical,…

Does God still raise up prophets?

January 31, 2016
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Prophecy is the most frequently-mentioned charism in the whole Pauline corpus: the role of the prophets is preeminent (eg 1Thess 5:20; 1Cor 11:4f; Rom 12:6; Eph 2:20; 1Tim 1:18).…

The apocalypse of Islam and the signs of the times

August 26, 2015
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The Temple of Baalshamin predated Mohammed by six centuries. It was a cultural jewel in the Syrian desert, revealing to the world a glimpse of the pre-Islamic religions of…

Was St Paul wrong about the timing of the Second Coming?

August 20, 2015
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If Jesus, being fully and infallibly God, was not wrong about the time of his Second Coming, what about St Paul, being fully and fallibly man? The whole thrust…

Was Jesus wrong about the timing of his Second Coming?

August 19, 2015
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The imminence of the long-prophesied kingdom of God and the end of time has occupied Christians and Jews more than any other subject of theological conjecture. Certainly, at the…

"God told me to.."

August 5, 2015
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Have you ever had a Christian say to you: "God told me to..", followed by a directive or (more usually) a subtly coercive exhortation to do something (usually) for…

Holy Wednesday: hate, conspiracy, betrayal

April 1, 2015
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Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you?…

Holy Monday: cleansing, anointing and indignation

March 30, 2015
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And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the…

Behold your God!

December 24, 2014
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O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be…

#ChristmasMeans anything but peace on earth

December 23, 2014
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Today marks the official start of the Church of England's #ChristmasMeans Twitter campaign. Church congregations and clergy are being encouraged to get out their smartphones to let the Twittersphere know…

Canon Andrew White ordered home with $57m bounty on his head

November 26, 2014
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"It's the end for Iraqi Christians," writes Josh Glancy in The Sunday Times, as he recounts the appalling horrors, heartbreaks and sheer despair of Iraq's Christians, many thousands of…