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Who wants to be Christian if Christian means having a downer on everyone else?
Published: 28th Mar 2013
It’s difficult to deny that Christians have an image problem in the UK. Increasingly in the public imagination the word “Christian” is associated with “bigot”.
Christians are being defined by whom they’re against – gays, women, immigrants – rather than whom they’re for.
It’s a tragic irony. Christians...
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Greater than Gatsby?
Published: 8th Mar 2013
LEONARDO Di Caprio’s recent movie, “The Great Gatsby”, is set in New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of wild living, jazz parties, and shady business dealings making a lot of money.
Mysterious, party-giving millionaire, Jay Gatsby, played by Di Caprio, is a man following a dream. Gatsby has devoted his life to the pursuit of wealth. But for...
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"Remember me"
Published: 29th Jan 2013
YOU’VE SEEN them by the side of roads: flowers, plaques and markers. Often taped badly to traffic lights and to fence posts. Ragged, faded old bunches, or bright fresh wreaths. Imperishable plastic poppies.
They speak of grief, these roadside memorials of all kinds and colours.
In the 1940s, the Arizona State Highway Patrol began using white crosses to mark...
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"My mate dragged me from death's door!"
Published: 27th Sep 2011
"I WOKE up with a bit of a headache and felt queasy. But I should have been dead."
Alex had taken 20 paracetamol and 40 antihistamines in an attempt to end his life.
Amazingly, no treatment was needed. "I was perfectly fine. None of the nurses could understand it".
Alex's suicide attempt was the tragic upshot of a tough childhood. His parents...
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Let there be light
Published: 19th Sep 2011
"WHERE was this God of love when I was getting bullied, when my family was falling to pieces?" 15-year-old Heidi Mobius was disillusioned and desperate.
God had been a part of Heidi's life for as long as she remembers - even if it was the occasional church visit, or Christian principles such as "Turn the other cheek". What caused her to reject it all?
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