WHAT MAKES mJa member Piers Young rave with excitement:

We'd known Trish for years: addicted, gaunt, never smiled. She came to the Jesus Centre for basics, (she could be stroppy, too). But gradually she started thawing a bit. Then with support workers’ help, she got into a flat through the Jesus ...

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FATHER Tim Jones, a York vicar, recently told his congregation “My advice, as a Christian priest, is to shoplift.”

He claimed that shoplifting from national chains was sometimes “the best option for the vulnerable”. UK society had failed many needy people, making it “far better that they shoplift than turn to ...

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HORRIFIED Sunitha Ramakrishna watched as her mother burst into flames before her eyes, while cooking breakfast at their home in Bangalore.  “It was a real nightmare” says Sunitha, then 12, now 26. “But I’d learned at school that ‘Jesus is the healer’, so I prayed for Jesus to heal her.

Jesus’s ...

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If God is good, then why is there so much suffering in the world?

From grazed knees to cancer ward heartbreak, suffering confronts us all. It’s part of the fabric of human existence.

Some, confronted with the apparent meaninglessness of human pain, decide we must live in a godless universe. We’re on our own to make the best of it.

Christians hold on to something different. They believe in a God who is love. How come?

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