Christian Living

Podcast S15E07: Duties of Church Membership (i)

Author(s)Church Society
Date 11 November 2024
Type Audio and Blog Post

Tony Cannon and Steve Short discuss the first three 'Duties of Church Membership' as proposed by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York in the mid-20th Century. This week they're looking at bearing witness, reading scripture and prayer.

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BOOK REVIEWS: ‘The Anxious Generation’ & ‘Unlocked: The Real Science of Screen Time’

Author(s)Church Society
Date 30 May 2024
Categories Christian Living and Reviews
Type Blog Post

Robin Barfield reviews Jonathan Haidt's: 'The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness' and Pete Etchells book: 'Unlocked: The Real Science of Screen Time (and how to spend it better).'

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Keep contending!

Author(s)Andrew Towner
Date 12 November 2023
Category Christian Living
Type Blog Post

Andrew Towner commends the Thirty Theses on Contending from Lee Gatiss's book, Fight Valiantly.

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BOOK REVIEW: Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation 

Author(s)Church Society
Date 21 August 2023
Categories Christian Living and Reviews
Type Blog Post

Martin Salter reviews Collin Hansen's book on the late Tim Keller. Both the book and the review were written before the news of Keller's death earlier this summer.

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Marriage or Holy Matrimony?

Author(s)Ros Clarke
Date 9 March 2023
Tags LLF and marriage
Type Blog Post

Ros Clarke tries to make sense of the distinction being drawn between civil marriage and Holy Matrimony, and finds that the dividing line is being put in the wrong place.

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Who are the working classes?

Author(s)Kirsten Birkett
Date 7 March 2023
Categories Christian Living and Class and Ministry
Tags class and working class
Type Blog Post

Kirsten Birkett continues her series looking at the issue of class in the church by considering what we mean by the working class.

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Class and the evangelical church in England

Author(s)Kirsten Birkett
Date 28 February 2023
Categories Christian Living and Class and Ministry
Tags class and evangelism and Ministry
Type Blog Post

Kirsten Birkett introduces a new occasional series of blog posts reflecting on the problems of class divisions in the church.

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Covenanted Friendships

Author(s)Ros Clarke
Date 2 February 2023
Type Blog Post

Ros Clarke explores the idea of covenanted friendships, as mentioned in the proposed Prayers of Love and Faith.

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