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Short thoughts on death and mortality

  • Gordon Cheng
  • 1 February 2008

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Matters of indifference?

  • Mark Thompson
  • 1 February 2008

When Christians disagree, often it is helpful to sort the important from the unimportant, the essential from the indifferent. But what criteria should we use to do this? Mark Thompson investigates.When dealing with the amazing diversity of Christian thought and practice in our world—and especially when confronted by debate or

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FallacyWatch: Gus the Greek

  • Tony Payne
  • 1 February 2008

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The ever-flowing river of language

  • Andrew Malone
  • 1 February 2008

As a linguistic pedant, I’ve grown to love the precision of Kel Richards and his WordWatch column. As a Bible-believing evangelical, I can see the merit in calling myself a ‘fundamentalist’ in the more literal sense of the word. So imagine my horror when Kel Richards took such a term

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Preaching and pulpiteering

  • Gordon Cheng
  • 1 February 2008

I’ve never really been comfortable with the evangelical emphasis on preaching sermons, and never quite understood why we make so much more of this form rather than of other forms of teaching. It seems to me that the emphasis on preaching (that is, ‘preaching’ understood as ‘pulpiteering’, as opposed to

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Golden opportunity

  • Tony Payne
  • 1 February 2008

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The importance of preaching the negative as well as the positive

  • Phillip Jensen
  • 1 February 2008

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The joys of drudgery

  • Lee Carter
  • 1 February 2008

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The satirical Christian

  • 1 February 2008

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Lessons from serving in a hard church

  • Anonymous
  • 1 February 2008

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