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Biblical friendship (part 2): Being a friend

December 2, 2018December 5, 2018 by Caitlin Orr

In part 1 we looked at John 15 and saw that a friend is loving, sacrificial and outward looking.The book of Proverbs fleshes out this picture of what it means to be a friend. Proverbs is immensely helpful in thinking through the issue of friendship,…

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Evangelism: What is it?

November 27, 2018November 27, 2018 by ACR Team

‘Evangelism’ has recently risen to the status of what Stephen Potter would call an “OK word”: to utter it is to be ecclesiastically ‘one up’ straight away. (Things were different 20 years ago.) The term stands for something that the modern church…

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Feminism and faith: Some further thoughts

November 13, 2018November 13, 2018 by Christine Bransdon

This is the second part of Christine’s article. The first part can be found here.I have invested a lot of effort in researching feminism and trying to express why I think it is at odds with Christianity. I’ve struggled to reconcile the…

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Making sense of feminism and faith

November 11, 2018November 11, 2018 by Christine Bransdon

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a name that is currently dominating feminist Instagram. Despite her youth, gender, and ethnicity, she has just been elected to Congress in the mid-term elections. After she won the democratic primary in June,…

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Real Faith

November 6, 2018November 7, 2018 by Tom Habib

This article was originally published in the ACR’s latest journal, which contains lots of helpful reflections on evangelism. You can access the journal in full here. I want people to really believe The simple goal of evangelism is for people…

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Teaching and Learning in the Bible: An Interview with Claire Smith

November 4, 2018November 2, 2018 by Claire Smith

Claire Smith is a graduate of Moore Theological College and a well-known speaker and writer. In 2012 she recently published a detailed and internationally recognised academic monograph on teaching and learning in New Testament churches—the…

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The game-changing question for every evangelistic conversation

October 15, 2018October 7, 2018 by Dave Jensen

“Who killed Jesus?”At some point in every single evangelistic conversation I have, I make a point of asking this question. In fact, over the years, I’ve realised that nearly every part of every evangelistic conversation I have is in fact leading…