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Joseph Hartropp is Junior Staff Writer for Christian Today.
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Sausage rolls and beard oils: 6 alternative Advent calendars to amuse and bewilder
From Greggs to Hot Wheels, everyone has a novelty Advent calendar now. What can Christians learn from them?
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Tim Keller's latest Christmas gift: Proverbial wisdom in the age of the fool
The latest book from Timothy and Kathy Keller is a timely resource that offers the light of wisdom in the age of the fool.
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St Andrew's Day: What the Church needs to learn from this cross-shaped disciple
Today is St Andrews day, both a national celebration for the Scots regarding their patron saint, but also a key Christian feast day – highlighting a crucial figure from Scripture, but one easily and tragically forgotten.
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Getting over evolution: Is Charles Darwin's theory still controversial for Christians?
Today marks the anniversary of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species - but is Darwin's culture-shifting theory still controversial?
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Fighting Black Friday: A Christian alternative to consumerism?
If Lent is the season of ascetic refrain from self-indulgence and our consumerist desires, then Black Friday week must be its secular opposite.
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Happy Thanksgiving? Three reasons to be grateful in the time of Trump
Today marks the rich, hearty, frequently food-coma-inducing American tradition of Thanksgiving. It's an important time to be thankful, but the age of Brexit and Trump seems to have made us more divided and cynical than ever.
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Loving CS Lewis: Why the author of Narnia still unites the Church – and inspires the world
On this day in 1963, the artist, theologian and towering Christian intellectual CS Lewis died. His death was dramatically overshadowed by another's, but the profound legacy of Lewis lives on today.
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London's first purpose built CofE church in 40 years celebrates opening
The first purpose built Anglican church in London in 40 years has been opened in Tottenham, London. The 'state of the art' St Francis at the Engine Room opened yesterday to the celebration of community locals.
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'Nones' are now the biggest religious group in the US - with families torn on priorities
A new survey has found that 'nones' – the religiously unaffiliated, including atheists – are now the largest religious group in the US.
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Judging Jericho: What should Christians do with the Bible's God-ordained violence?
The violent tale of Joshua and Israel's destruction of Joshua can be a deeply troubling one. What should Christians make of it today?
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For God and country: What do the US military think of Christians, the Bible and America's 'moral decline'?
A new survey has polled the views of American military members on Christian faith and the Bible. Most military members have a 'very positive' view of believers, and say that American morality is in decline, while nearly half believe Bible doesn't have enough influence on society.
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Pope Francis condemns 'perverse' climate change deniers
Pope Francis condemned the 'perverse attitudes' of climate change deniers and sceptics in an address to world leaders yesterday, in what may be taken as an implicit attack on the leadership of Donald Trump.
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Pro-ISIS group vows 'Christmas blood' inciting Vatican terror attack
Online propaganda from a pro-ISIS channel has threatened a Christmas terrorist attack against the Vatican, with a poster inciting 'Christmas blood'.
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Leonardo da Vinci's controversial painting of Christ sold for record figure of $450m
A painting of Christ by Leonardo da Vinci has sold for a record-breaking figure of $450 million (£341 million) in New York.
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'Pearl of Scotland': The nation-shaping Christian leadership of Saint Margaret
Today is the feast day of a Hungarian princess-turned Queen of Scotland – Saint Margaret – who became not only a national treasure to Scots but a spiritual inspiration to Christians across the world.
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