Marriage: divorced from truth
en staff
Date posted: 1 Oct 2018
The government opened a consultation1 in July (closing on 7 November) on Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education, seeking views on the draft regulations and statutory guidance to schools.
This is already part of the curriculum in most schools as PHSE, but is due to become compulsory. Many parents, including Christians, are abdicating their responsibility to teach sex and relationships to their own children. Aware of this, the government has taken the chance to construct a curriculum which includes some helpful elements, but also some unhelpful teaching about sex and family life.
USA: walk out on Pence
EN
Date posted: 1 Aug 2018
In contrast to the UK prayer breakfast in
Parliament where the leaders of the nation
were called to listen to someone speak from
the Bible, the Southern Baptists took up the
request from Vice-President Mike Pence to
speak at their convention in mid-June.
In a piece
for The Gospel Coalition,
Jonathan Leeman wrote: ‘… having a political leader address our churches or associations of churches tempts us to misconstrue
our mission. Our mission is not the mission
of the Republican, Democratic or any other
party. Our mission, when gathered,
is to
work toward Great Commission ends. To
bring
in a politician risks subverting our gospel purposes to the purposes of that politician’s party. … it undermines our evangelistic and prophetic witness … it hurts the
unity of Christ’s body’. There would inevitably be divided political opinions in a church
over any individual or party.
The octogenarian in the train station
EN
Date posted: 1 Aug 2018
On 3 July George Verwer celebrated his
80th birthday and announced a tour of the
UK to 20 or so train stations to give friends
a chance to meet him and pray.
He said he needed a ‘sabbatical’ from big
events after last year’s OM 60th celebration.
George said he wanted to be able to have
time to sit with people, and big parties don’t
allow for that. So through July and August he plans to sit in coffee shops and train stations for a few hours so people can have a few
minutes conversation, ‘maybe a prayer and
for sure a photo – for me maybe a few tears’.