Monthly column on the arts
David Porter
Date posted: 1 Apr 2001
Publishing Christian art books today is a hazardous business; most of it is in the hands of small enthusiastic publishers committed to publishing art rather than building a business empire.
So it's been quite a surprise in the last year or two to see one of the most exciting developments in this field coming, originally, from Britain's largest publishing-and-bookshop giant, STL. The first mention in this column came with an enthusiastic review of Hilary Brand and Adrienne Chaplin, Art and Soul (1999), published under STL's Solway imprint and one of the most substantial books on Christian art to have been published in the evangelical market since Hans Rookmaaker's decades ago.
Hyper-separatism - no way forward
Jonathan Stephen
Date posted: 1 Jan 2001
In his now almost legendary address at the opening of a 'National Assembly of Evangelicals' held in October 1966, Martyn Lloyd-Jones urged that evangelicals must stand apart from false ecumenism and 'stand together as churches, constantly together, working together'.1 It has been all too easy for commentators of every doctrinal hue to draw simplistic and unjustifiable conclusions from what was said that night. The fact is that the preacher had no clear blue-print for the future in his mind.
China: theological turmoil - justification by love
Norman Cliff
Date posted: 1 Mar 2001
This past autumn I had a seven-week journey through eight provinces of China and was made aware of a serious theological threat to the unity of this country's fast-growing Church.
Since 1996 Bishop K. H. Ting (Ding Guang-xun) has been advocating with a sense of urgency a Faith Reform Movement, the teaching of which strikes at the very heart of Protestant theology. This concept was enunciated when the Three Self Patriotic Movement was formed in the early 1950s.
2001 - a Grace odyssey
Joy Horn
Date posted: 1 Jan 2001
General
The Council of Chalcedon in 451 affirmed that the divine and human natures are united in the person of Christ.
The Officers' Christian Union was founded in 1851.
Monthly column for youth leaders
Jo Horn
Date posted: 1 Feb 2001
Know anyone with a camping stove stashed away somewhere?
It could be a valuable evangelistic tool this month. Oh no! Just when you thought it was safe to read a youth column, someone's mentioned the 'e' word.
Understanding Roman Catholicism - an evangelical approach from Italy
IFED
Date posted: 1 Dec 2000
As the first year of the new millennium draws to a close, the calls for Christian unity regardless of truth, seem to be ever louder. The following article came to EN from The Institute for Evangelical Formation and Documentation (IFED) and Italian Evangelical Alliance.
In the years following Vatican II (1962-65) evangelicals have shown renewed interest in Roman Catholicism.
My hiding place
Khalda
Date posted: 1 Jan 2001
My story is of how God became 'my hiding place', my hope in a place where there was no hope.
My parents came over to England in the early 1960s. I grew up in the city of Coventry in a Pakistani Muslim home. Family life was very strict and traditional; we were not allowed to mix socially with the English children at school.
Letter from America
The Bible versus books on the Bible!
Josh Moody
Date posted: 1 Jan 2001
He was an unusual character. Small, squat and very lively.
A group of bright-eyed, intelligent students were gathered around him, crowding out the large room in which we were meeting. There were books everywhere - wall-to-ceiling bookshelves with line upon line, double-shelved large volumes of theology and philosophy, science, and you name it.
A passion for Piper?
Simon Vibert
Date posted: 1 Nov 2000
John Piper is the senior pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church (BBC) in Minneapolis.
He is author of more than a dozen books and has been in the UK speaking at conferences organised by such diverse groups as FIEC, Banner of Truth and the Clarendon Centre.
Making us accountable
Trevor James
Date posted: 1 Oct 2000
Radical changes are in prospect for all churches in England and Wales . . .
Proposals put forward by the Home Office and the Charity Commission will require places of worship to register with the Charity Commission from April 2001. The Charity Commission estimate that in total 100,000 groups will be affected.
World Christians
Julia Cameron
Date posted: 1 Sep 2000
Book Review
WE ARE THE WORLD: Globalisation and the changing face of missions.
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Discipline of debate
John Benton
Date posted: 1 Nov 2000
While visiting England in September Professor Jim Packer spoke to EN.
In this, the second part of his interview, he takes up questions which follow on from his emphasis on the need to contend for the biblical gospel within Anglicanism.
Hyper-separatism (or contracting the circle)
Jonathan Stephen
Date posted: 1 Nov 2000
The first article in a three-part look at a serious hindrance to evangelical unity . . .
Earlier this year, a booklet was issued with the title Bible Churches Together - A Plea for True Ecumenism(1). It had three related aims: to clarify the position of the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches with regard to the ecumenical movement, to provide some background information about the new network called Essentially Evangelical and to urge greater co-operation between all churches that were genuinely submissive to the authority of the Bible.
Drug smuggler finds the Lord
Religion Today
Date posted: 1 Nov 2000
God's grace has miraculously transformed a notorious cocaine smuggler, a man who destroyed countless lives, into an ardent Christian.
Jorge Valdes said he was pocketing more than $1 million a month in the late 1970s as the US head of Colombia's notorious Medellin cartel, then the world's largest criminal organisation.