This will make your day. It made mine. In December, Times columnist , Matthew Parris, returned to Africa after 45 years absence. He was there to report on The Times Christmas Appeal which was devoted to providing clean water for rural communities. Listen to what he says about the impact of Christianity in Africa. Did [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Surviving January
14 January, 2009 – 5:06 PM
Most of January I’m working on my book. I already had a draft but the feedback from publishers was that I had written for my university professor rather than my audience. So it has to be rewritten so as you’ll read it. Looks like the blog is going to suffer for a while. Meanwhile Michelle [...]
Great news out of Antioch
9 January, 2009 – 4:28 PM
I keep hearing great things from some good people about the Antioch movement of churches. One of them told me, “They do a better job than anyone I know in the west reproducing disciples that are passionate, bold witnesses who can go through the floods and the fires. They go out and start churches wherever [...]
Exile from Babylon
6 January, 2009 – 8:11 PM
image According to Philip Jenkins there is a tragedy unfolding throughout the Middle East as an ancient Church is coming to a bloody end. Iraq’s Christians numbered 5-6% in 1970. The number has fallen below 1% in the face of persecution. Across the Middle East ancient churches — Chaldean, Assyrian, Orthodox — are survivals from [...]
