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About Martin Saunders
Martin Saunders is Deputy CEO of Youthscape and Contributing Editor for Christian Today.
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Paws for prayer: 7 amazing pictures of Jesus with animals
This week has been a huge and historic one on both sides of the Atlantic. These are serious times, and they demand heart warming silliness.
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The Shack review: is the movie version heretical… and does it matter?
A film opens this week that arguably presents the most significant opportunity in living memory for Christians to introduce their faith to their friends through an engagement with mainstream culture. Yet so far, excitement about the film has been strangely muted, because there's just one small problem: the film is based on controversial best-seller The Shack.
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Wonder Woman's unexpected theme: Amazing Grace
Wonder Woman packs a punch - this is a film that restores your faith on several fronts, and is that rare and glorious cinematic treat: a film of which little was expected, and which well surpasses those expectations.
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'I'm not afraid of controversy': Exclusive interview with The Shack director Stuart Hazeldine
Despite the apparently un-cinematic concept, and the warnings from more conservative Christians to avoid anything Shack-shaped, British director Stuart Hazeldine's movie version has been a box office triumph. At time of writing, it's closing in on an impressive $100 million worldwide gross.
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A pastor claims he has God's phone number. Can he help us think differently about prayer?
As if Christians didn't already have enough of a reputation for being somewhere on the spectrum between mad and weird, we've now seen the emergence of a pastor who says he had God's personal phone number, and regularly calls him on his cell.
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Who should play TV's 'New Pope'?
Jude Law was cast as he Young Pope. With a casting search underway to play the central role in a new drama, The New Pope, Christian Today thought it would be helpful to present the producers with a few options. Here's our entirely speculative list of actors who'd each bring something very different to the role of Pope
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The 84 thoughts you have during a contemporary worship service
Do you stand up or sit down, and if so when? Martin Saunders lists some of the things that go through our heads during contemporary evangelical worship
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Christian TV and the teaching that comes straight from Hell
The prosperity gospel and the Bible: There are quite a few warnings in the Bible about false teachers and prophets. According to Jesus, Paul and others, there will certainly be men and women who come like the proverbial wolves in woolly clothing, and disrupt the church with twisted versions of Christian truth.
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Alien: Covenant rejects evolution and asks, how did we get here?
The first few moments of the latest chapter in the Alien film series could almost be a promotional video for a Christian apologetics conference.
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Rick Joyner thinks new mega-prophets will soon predict sports scores. Is it possible?
This month, pastor and prophetic teacher Rick Joyner suggested that the world is about to see a new wave of mega-prophets, able to see directly into the near future and correctly predict it.
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The major character flaw we all urgently need to address
When I was 19 years old, I did the socially unthinkable. I changed my favourite football team. I'm aware that twenty years on, many football fans will read this information and immediately judge me.
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John Piper's message about hell to six-year-olds is dangerous – and perhaps even abusive
John Piper suggests that talking with an anxious six year-old about hell is a 'golden opportunity'. A wonderful chance to reach into those fears and anxieties to point to the great darkness behind them, and then to illustrate the contrast with God's offer of eternal life with him.
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 review: an atheist's God from beyond the stars
In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, the villain is a million-year-old deity who created himself and the world around him. Martin Saunders gives it four stars ****
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What happened when someone chained a cross to Gay Street?
It started with a mysterious act of apparent malice, but it turned into an expression of grace.
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Ever feel people don't like you? Maybe it's a spiritual gift
In a world where every day we hand out and receive 'likes' to one another, it's not hard to see why so many people struggle with their self-esteem.
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