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Monday 21 Jun 2010 · Christian Living

Discovering The Simple Life

Is your house so full of clutter that you have to go somewhere else to relax? Are your weekends so busy with entertainment, that you get to Monday needing another weekend to recover? Or maybe your calendar’s so booked up with church commitments, that you aren’t connecting with your family – or with God? Could […]
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Tuesday 15 Jun 2010 · Christian Living

Series: Exploring The Seven Deadly Sins

These days, when you hear talk of the Seven Deadly Sins, they’re often framed as an old-fashioned, cartoonish concept. Secular society in particular, tends to portray those vices (Envy, Vainglory, Sloth and Greed, Anger, Gluttony and Lust) as ideas that once kept straight-laced, religious people living in unnecessary fear. But philosopher Rebecca De Young, author […]
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Tuesday 15 Jun 2010 · Christian Living

How Prayer Is Bringing Peace to the United Kingdom

When you turn on the news and hear about the latest shooting, fatal road accident, or shocking domestic violence incident, do you ever spare a thought for the police officers involved? Don Axcell, a former police sergeant and head of the Christian Police Association in the UK, says that people often forget about the vulnerable, […]
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Tuesday 1 Jun 2010 · Faith

Seven Deadly Sins: Anger

This week in our continuing series on the Seven Deadly Sins we examine Anger. Anger can be a good and Godly thing. Jesus got angry, for starters. He famously knocked tables over in the temple when he saw it being treated like a marketplace. And just think, if Martin Luther King Jr didn’t get angry about inequality […]
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Monday 24 May 2010 · Christian Living

Making Judgements Without Being Judgmental

It’s ironic to think that one of Jesus Christ’s greatest teachings, was “Judge Not” and yet sometimes His followers, Christians, have the worst reputation for being judgmental. Sadly, judging each other is something that we all do pretty frequently, and it’s not an easy habit to overcome. In fact, according to professor of psychology Terry […]
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Monday 24 May 2010 · Christian Living

The Ethics of Artificial Life

You may have heard this week about the scientific breakthrough by the famous American geneticist Dr Craig Venter. He’s said to have created the first artificial life. A cell containing DNA that was built from scratch in a laboratory with four bottles of chemicals. According to experts, it’s an achievement that goes way beyond regular genetic […]
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Monday 17 May 2010 · Faith

Series: The Seven Deadly Sins

Join Open House on a series of conversations about The Seven Deadly Sins, with philosopher Rebecca De Young, author of a book called Glittering Vices. The idea is that each week, we’ll explore a different Vice, and look at the remedies for it, so that if you find yourself travelling, in one of these seven […]
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Monday 17 May 2010 · Faith

The Gospel According to U2

Gloria, Yahweh, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Magnificent it’s difficult listening to any U2 album and not catching a Bible verse or Gospel metaphor. As one journalist put it, ‘spirituality is the engine that drives the U2 machine.’ So, what do Bono, Edge, Larry and Adam believe? What is the Gospel according to U2? Listen Now – […]
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Monday 10 May 2010 · Faith

The Karma of Jesus: Do You Reap What You Sow?

The ancient idea of Karma is present in nearly all world religions in some form or another – even in the Judeo-Christian tradition, according to author Mark Herringshaw. That principle of ’cause and effect’, ‘actions and consequences’, ‘what goes around comes around’, ‘reaping what you sow’. Whatever you choose to call it, one thing’s for […]
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Monday 3 May 2010 · Christian Living

God is Back: The Resurgence of Religion

Ever since the Enlightenment in the 18th century, ‘enlightened’ thinkers have prophesied the end of religion. Modernity would kill God – science would make us sceptical of miracles; technology and psychology would fix all our problems; the changing roles of women would weaken the male dominance of clerics and therefore religion as a whole. The […]
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Monday 3 May 2010 · Christian Living

God and Fashion: Is It a Perfect Fit?

In the glossy, cut-throat world of fashion, where does God fit in? It’s a question that Phill Tarling is well equipped to answer. Phill’s a stylist to the stars in the UK. He’s clothed, primped and preened many a celebrity from Sienna Miller and Ioan Gruffudd, to Joanna Lumley and Jermaine Jackson; and he’s helped […]
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Monday 3 May 2010 · Christian Living

Seven Deadly Sins #1: Envy

These days, when you hear talk of the Seven Deadly Sins, they’re often framed as an old-fashioned, cartoonish concept. Secular society in particular, tends to portray those vices – Envy, Vainglory, Sloth and Greed, Anger, Gluttony and Lust as ideas that once kept straight-laced, religious people living in unnecessary fear. But philosopher Rebecca De Young, […]
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