Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | No room in the church: archbishop finds himself cast out by evangelicals: “Evangelicals, founding their belief on biblical revelation and personal conversion, form the most dynamic and growing element of the CofE and some are rejecting the leadership of their bishops and archbishops. In the 1950s, 7% of worshippers counted themselves as evangelicals, now the figure is 40% and that stretches to 60% of ordinands in training. Although by no means all feel this... Read more

Joshua Claybourn’s at it being wise again! These rules for political Christians are great. I wish more followd them….! “God does not belong to your party: No country, no political party, no political ideology can own Him. He’s the boss. The ends do not justify the means: Stuffing ballot boxes, shredding public documents, etc. are wrong, and most people would agree to that. Sometimes, though, politically active folks seem to think it’s okay if it’s for a greater good. Not... Read more

This article made my blood boil! I wish we did ‘do God’ a lot more than we do! Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Just say no to abstinence: “As Alastair Campbell memorably remarked: over here we don’t do God. We don’t do God at all. This must be the most valuable distinction still extant between us and America, that we have yet to fall back on bogus concepts of morality to explain why some teens sleep around and shoplift,... Read more

Teaching Stories I: “Many years ago a wise peasant lived in China. He had a son who was the gleam in his eyes and a white stallion which was his favorite belonging. One day his horse escaped from his grounds and disappeared into the fields outside the village. The villagers came to him one by one and announced their condolences. They said, ‘You are such an unlucky man. It is so bad.’ The peasant answered, ‘Who knows. Maybe it’s bad,... Read more

Returning from my latest trip abroad today I reflected on a strange world that we now live in where getting accross seas is easier than going half way accross the country- why o why can’t there be flights from London to Liverpool or Hull I ask myself? We live in a global village where those who live in cities can hop between them like stepping on a bus (and trust me in London you could be in most European cities... Read more

40% of scientists are believers. Even Richard Dawkins tells a story stating Guardian Unlimited | Life | ‘Science cannot provide all the answers’: “I once reached this point when I asked the then professor of astrophysics at Oxford to explain the origin of the universe to me,’ he says. ‘He did so, and I posed my supplementary: ‘Where did the laws of physics come from in the first place?’ He smiled: ‘Ah, now we move beyond the realm of science.... Read more

Did YOU know you are almost certainly in the top few percentage of rich people in the world? Tell the Global Rich List how much you earn and you will get a feel for just how rich in world terms you really are! This is convicting to say the least Read more

Under The Sun: “Radio carbon dating has verified that the Siloam Tunnel under Jerusalem was indeed built by Hezekiah, as recounted in 2 Kings 20:20” Read more

And to think we still kill babies in the womb. Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | New hi-tech scans show babies smiling and crying before birth: “Images published for the first time yesterday seem to suggest that unborn babies can smile, blink and cry weeks before they leave the womb. “ Read more

Christian History Corner: Learning From the Other 9/11 – Christianity Today Magazine states “the first thing a principle does if it really is a principle is to kill somebody” and goes onto describe murder carried out by Mormans. It strikes me that the very idea today that principles can kill or that a man would die for an idea seems strange. Of course it is true that ideas can be dangerous. IF we read our history books we will realise... Read more