South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
A Ugandan pastor severely injured by Islamic opponents of his faith has made a stirring appeal for British Christians to help their persecuted brothers in other parts of the world. Umar Mulinde, who was badly burned by an acid attack outside his church five years ago, was speaking to a […]
My hymn of praise to the greatest hero of all As tributes were paid over the weekend to all who sacrificed their lives in modern conflict – with special reference to the horrors of the Somme 100 years ago – I thought of the part my own ancestors played. There […]
Jesus’ resurrection deals with man’s greatest enemy As a journalist of more than 40 years, I am well used to deadlines. But I take my hat off to fellow writer Richard Roe for daring to tackle the ultimate deadline. In his excellent book, Beyond the Final Curtain (Zaccmedia), he addresses […]
Shocking anti-Semitism as Britain prepares to celebrate As British Christians prepare to celebrate a famous milestone in Jewish history, battle lines are being drawn up and some shots have already been fired in anger. Passions of indignation from left-wing politicians and others are being stirred in response to plans for […]
Why pilgrimage is of such paramount importance I was thinking about the Feast of Tabernacles when I booked my train ticket to London and was rather tickled by the Virgin Trains slogan ‘Be bound for glory’, obviously based on the traditional gospel hit This Train. If it means Virgin boss […]
Jewish woman surprised by joy in Jerusalem congregation A British-raised Jewish woman who came to Israel to help recover from shattered dreams got more than she bargained for – she found her Messiah! Now also a Canadian resident, Bobbie Ann Cole was living in Britain when, following the breakdown of […]
Time to taste the sweet honey of following Yeshua I was looking forward, with some trepidation, to blowing the shofar in front of hundreds of schoolchildren last week. But in the end my wife, who teaches Christianity and the Jewish feasts to primary pupils all across our town, decided she […]
A brave Scot who sowed in tears The discovery of a handwritten will and more than 70 photographs has provided fresh insight into the life of a Christian martyr who perished at Auschwitz. Just six months before the camp was liberated by the Red Army on January 27, 1945, the […]
…and reaching for high places “Why do you always feel you have to climb mountains?” my wife Linda asked me with a note of exasperation on our recent visit to see friends in Wales. I avoided the standard answer, “Because they are there!” since, for me, that isn’t the reason; […]
Whatever else you may say about Israel – though the cradle of Judeo-Christian civilisation, they are clearly now as secular as the rest of us in the West – they are currently being blessed by a leader who believes in the importance and authority of the Bible. And whereas former […]