Lausanne & the polemical imperative
Ranald Macaulay
Date posted: 1 Mar 2016
Ranald Macaulay asks if the 1974 Congress missed something vital
When the Lausanne Congress opened in 1974 the global community was being treated to searing images of the Ethiopian famine.
Reaction and distraction
Ranald Macaulay
Date posted: 1 Jul 2008
When Marian Evans’s novel Adam Bede came out in 1859 it made the name ‘George Eliot’ justly famous.
Her novels soon took their place among the finest in the English language. To discerning readers, however, Marian’s scepticism indicated a growing problem about Christianity and the church.