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Archie Catchpole
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What we can learn about evil from the demon-possessed man and all those pigs in Mark 5
Mark 5:1-20 should be a happy story, given that Jesus deposes a demon and saves a man's life. But it's not. It's unsettling (and not only because pigs die). It exposes the ugly reality of evil – especially as Jesus expels it.
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Britain is still a Christian country? Why I'm not so excited
It is good news though, right? Christianity isn't as socially irrelevant as some glum folk claim. I wish that I could agree with this comforting conclusion. Sadly, I find myself fearing a far more unsettling reality.
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My experience of graduating into a Covid world
Graduating has seldom been easy. Jobs are hard to come by and the safety of studenthood dissipates almost immediately. Imagine graduating into a world near-paralysed by a pandemic.
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The Church needs its prophetic imagination – now as much as ever
The Old Testament prophets possessed a prophetic imagination that refused to accept things as they were and sought to render them as they should be. Creation could do with some of that prophetic imagination right now
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We can be angry with Trump and his Bible stunt, but we must be more angry that another black man has been unjustly killed
I have seen more Christians condemn Trump's use of the Bible for a political powerplay than they have Derek Chauvin's use of excessive force that killed George Floyd.
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What the coronavirus pandemic feels like for a theology student
Maybe the resources are scarcer and the challenge is greater, but if we are students then it is our duty to do just that: study - however strange the backdrop.
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What Simeon and Anna can teach us about effective witnessing
We might need to clean up our act if we want people to take our testimony seriously.
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An alternative arrival: learning from Palm Sunday at Advent
For all the nativity's yuletide dominance, the quirks of the Anglican Second Service lectionary nudged a different arrival story onto centre stage on the First Sunday of Advent: Jesus's Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem.
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We need to have a Word
In our eagerness to make ourselves heard, we continue (with most of Church history) to forget that Scripture asks only that we proclaim and obey it.
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Theology might disappear, but it cannot die
Considering that the Word of the Lord endures forever, God is not going to stop speaking. Neither do I think that we will stop responding simply because one subject has disappeared from university education.
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Eugene Peterson beyond The Message - poet, pastor, prophet
Although The Message may be his most remembered work, the real legacy that Peterson leaves behind is as poet, pastor, and prophet.
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When it's not OK to not be OK
On a very personal level, one of the best things we can do is to educate ourselves.
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'Are those donuts free?' and other meaningful Spring Harvest questions
Masses upon masses descend upon Spring Harvest each year for one thing and one thing only: the exhibition tent.
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Exegesis and #MeToo: The unlikely combo primed for a positive impact
Let's face it, theology and cutting-edge social movements fighting sexual harassment seem to be worlds apart.
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Reflections on resignations: God is still good
Even if our insatiable desire for gossip finds this infuriating, a lot of the time we don't know many details about these incidents. Nor do we necessarily need to.
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What now after those Welby comments?
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Justin Welby's position on gay sex is not only theologically indefensible, it's logically irreconcilable
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What is Halloween and how do Christians respond to it?
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What do the words of John Winthrop in 1630 have to do with the US elections in 2024?
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Christians join calls for Pakistan's suspension from Commonwealthy
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Democrat or MAGA, left or right, liberal or conservative: is it possible to overcome our hostile political divides?
