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Privacy PolicyThe decline in biblical literacy It was Saturday night and my youngest daughter’s cry of anguish had me dashing downstairs from my study to see what disaster had befallen her. I found Elizabeth, who was about nine at the time, remonstrating with the television. She was watching Who Wants to be a Millionaire and the…
Keep readingPentecost: a great and unique day Did you know that 27 May this year will be Pentecost? We all know the date of Christmas, and the date of Easter usually dawns on us some time during April. If someone told us that he didn’t realise that 25 December was Christmas Day, we’d give him rather…
Keep readingMy new life in Peru In October 2011 we returned to Arequipa Peru, my husband’s home city and the place where I had previously worked in mission for three years before returning to the UK, my homeland, to marry Eduardo and support him whilst he was at Bible College. Returning to Peru, which I previously…
Keep readingThere’s more to life than rugby Every rugby player’s dream is to play for his country. Surely for the rugby player, there can be no greater privilege than representing your country in the Six Nations or even the Rugby World Cup. How disappointing it must be for the players who don’t get off the bench…
Keep readingApostle to China: Griffith John (1831-1912) Griffith John was born in Swansea in 1831. When he was eight-years-old, he was accepted into membership at Ebenezer Independent chapel in the town, and by the time he was sixteen was known as ‘the boy preacher’. In 1850, Griffith John entered Brecon Congregational College, before proceeding to Bedford…
Keep readingGospel opportunities in Burkina Faso Open your mind’s eye. Imagine the British Isles. I always think of Snowdonia, Mow Cop and Arsenal. That’s home for me. Oh yes, and rain. Keeping your mind’s eye open, now imagine a country the exact opposite. No coastline, no rain most of the year, few mountains, over seventy different…
Keep readingA question of sport A question of sport, not the popular television programme, but how should Christians respond to it? Its powerful and domineering shadow hangs over modern life. It has been said, ‘it may be that all games are silly but then so are humans. Sport is human life in microcosm.’ We may well…
Keep readingEric Liddell: the Olympic flying Scotsman The inspiring film Chariots of Fire reminded the world of Eric Liddell who ran for gold at the Paris Olympics in 1924. He was the Usain Bolt or the Michael Phelps of his day. Eric Liddell was born in 1902 in the city of Tianjin in China. His parents…
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