Kel Richards

WordWatch: Jeremiah

  • Kel Richards
  • 1 May 2009

If someone accuses you of being ‘a real Jeremiah’, what are they saying about you? Is it a compliment or an insult? Last year, Anu Garg had a go at offering a definition. For the uninitiated (i.e. the non-word-obsessives), Anu is the Indian-born, American computer and word geek who runs ‘A

Read More →

Professor

  • Kel Richards
  • 1 February 2009

Content unavailable online.

Read More →

A house divided

  • Kel Richards
  • 1 October 2008

Content unavailable online.

Read More →

Uproar

  • Kel Richards
  • 2 April 2008

Content unavailable online.

Read More →

Your welcome

  • Kel Richards
  • 1 March 2008

Welcoming is one of those areas in which churches can always improve. Kel Richards talks to Jim Ramsay of Evangelism Ministries about a new resource that aims to help churches do just that. Welcomer's Training Course (DVD x 1, leader's manual x 1,

Read More →

WordWatch: Evangelical

  • Kel Richards
  • 1 March 2008

Is it time for us to stop using the word ‘evangelical’ as our primary self-label? We have long been used to the media being thoroughly muddled about those who count as ‘evangelicals’ and those who don’t. Odd American televangelists (even the use of that word is a bit of

Read More →

Nature

  • Kel Richards
  • 1 July 2007

Content unavailable online.

Read More →

Invasion

  • Kel Richards
  • 1 May 2007

Content unavailable online.

Read More →

Literally

  • Kel Richards
  • 1 March 2007

Literally no-one understands the word ‘literally’ anymore. I suspect that the meaning of the word has changed over the last generation or two. ‘Literally’ came into English from Old French (so blame William the Conqueror). It came from a French word meaning ‘letter’. So when it was first recorded (which

Read More →

Nurture

  • Kel Richards
  • 1 January 2007

Content unavailable online.

Read More →