by contemporarychristianity_admin | Apr 16, 2025 | P.S.
I was brought up in a church where the church ‘calendar’ was regarded as really quite unimportant – apart from Christmas and Easter. Lent and Pentecost were rarely mentioned, and even Christmas and Easter focussed on the culmination of the period, with little...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Apr 8, 2025 | P.S.
Among the songs of worship that I will find myself singing this Easter, I am sure these words will be sung at some point: ‘This, the power of the cross: Christ became sin for us, Took the blame, bore the wrath: We stand forgiven at the cross.’ I believe those...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Apr 1, 2025 | P.S.
“Narnia was never right except when a Son of Adam was king… It is not men’s country, but it is a country for a man to be king of.” – Trufflehunter the Badger in C.S. Lewis’ ‘Prince Caspian’. We are sometimes guilty of starting the gospel in...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Mar 25, 2025 | P.S.
Seek the peace and prosperity of the city… because if it prospers, you too will prosper (Jeremiah 29:7). Or in the words of an ancient proverb: The security of the little person is based on the security of the great person; the security of the great person is based on...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Mar 18, 2025 | P.S.
The Omagh Bombing Inquiry has been sitting over the last few weeks. It has been harrowing to listen or read what have been described as “commemorative hearings” which have reminded us how the twenty-nine people who perished and the many injured were individuals simply...
by contemporarychristianity_admin | Mar 11, 2025 | P.S.
One of the Oxford English Dictionary’s words of the year for 2020 was doomscrolling. Amid COVID outbreaks, perpetual lockdowns, and ever-changing social distancing rules, the term perfectly captured our compulsion to check our devices for the latest dose of bad news....
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