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Transforming dreams into reality
Published: 12th Jun 2013
WE HAVE become accustomed to bad news: faltering banks, a double-dip recession, once-firmly established businesses folding up, large scale redundancies in the public sector and the resultant increase in unemployment, house repossessions, homelessness and child poverty. And that doesn’t include the unrecorded psychological damage inflicted by the loss of jobs and the uncertainty, even...
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Asexuality: a fourth orientation
Published: 10th Dec 2012
“I GREW up in the 60s and 70s. It was ‘sex all around’ and not easy. I wanted to be part of the scene, but didn’t know why I wasn’t.”
Colin Nelson, 55, is a celibate and an asexual. A recent article in the Daily Mail bore the headline: ‘The fourth sexual orientation: one per cent of the population now considers themselves asexual....
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Off the bottle
Published: 27th Oct 2012
“I THINK Britain has a huge drink problem,” Alastair Campbell, former Director of Communications and Strategy for Tony Blair, recently told Jesus Life. “I think there’s a real danger that all the focus is on binge drinking and people causing trouble in city centres. I’m not saying that isn’t a problem, but I think the bigger problem is the middle class...
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Releasing a new generation of leaders
Published: 28th Sep 2012
I’M PASSIONATE about connecting students to church and church to students. Courageous steps need to be taken to create space and expectation for young adults to come and pioneer the church.
Risk-taking is the only way
At Fusion we took a risk with a young woman called Anna. We’ve been seeking to engage with Loughborough University and to bless it for...
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Life on the streets
Published: 19th May 2012
"WE'RE all in the gutter," quotes Bertie in a sweeping theatrical manner, "but some of us are looking to the stars. That's Oscar Wilde that is," he tells us while he strums his battered guitar and sings a little ditty to the passers-by.
Bertie was one of a crowd of people that Mary Golding and Lisbeth Johnson bumped into when they decided to base their cell...
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