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Where I go when faith feels dry

April 22, 2021April 22, 2021 by Ruth Baker

I don’t always see it coming. But some days just creep up on me where I know my faith feels lacking. Not absent—just sucked of its life. Dry, dusty, like Miss Havisham’s dining room. Sometimes it happens when I’ve let life get in the way: work, parenting…

Freedom and faith: Scotland’s lockdown

April 20, 2021April 20, 2021 by Matthew Baines

This has been a difficult year for Christians in Scotland, but one in which our convictions have been sharpened, our unity stretched, and the historic constitutional settlement in which we worship called into question. Our family moved from…

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Christ’s body: A brief history (Ephesians 4:11–13)

April 16, 2021April 16, 2021 by Lionel Windsor

Are you a Roman? That is, are you the kind of person who really cares about organisation, strategy, pragmatics, and getting things done? The Roman Empire was famous for those things. And so the Romans ruled the world (or at least the Mediterranean…

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Stories from Moore College Mission 2021: learning and partnership

April 13, 2021April 13, 2021 by Ben George

“I love you, Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold” (Psalm 18:1-2). As King David pens this psalm, he both remembers the…

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Prayer: What are we actually doing? (Ephesians 1:15–16)

April 8, 2021April 8, 2021 by Lionel Windsor

“A Muslim, a Jew and an Anglican Minister walk into a classroom”. This was the advertising blurb for a local Community College seminar I participated in a few years ago. I joined a Muslim educator and a Jewish academic (who is also a friend of mine)…

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Unprecedented times?

April 6, 2021April 6, 2021 by Simon Gillham

About 10 years ago I was in the north of Nigeria, in a region dominated by the Islamic group, Boko Haram. I was locked away in a church compound guarded by the army, training a group of local evangelists. Just down the road a bomb was set off outside…

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Christ: Up there and down here (Ephesians 4:8–10)

April 1, 2021April 1, 2021 by Lionel Windsor

In late August 2005, “one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history” ravaged the southern coast of the nation. Hurricane Katrina brought about destruction on a vast scale. Winds of up to 280 km/h and a 9-metre storm surge caused flooding…