What is God Like?

Guest Speaker Brad Jersak on 'A More Christlike God'

What is God like? 'Believers' and atheists alike often carry and finally reject the toxic images of God in their own hearts. Whether our notions of 'god' are...

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'Have this mind among you' - Politics, Black Magic and the Public Posture of Jesus

Stephen Backhouse at Host 2015

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'Have this mind among you' - Politics, Black Magic and the Public Posture of Jesus

What was the posture of the early Christian movement towards the political power space? How did the people who knew Jesus and who knew the people who knew Jesus think he...

Written on: 04-06-2015
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Tags: Bible | Christianity | Jesus | Kenosis | Political Imagination | Politics | Power | Powers | Prayer

An Interview About Slavery

A BBC RADIO JERSEY INTERVIEW WITH BUSINESS CONNECT

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Harriet Bradshaw from BBC Radio Jersey caught up with Simon and Tim after last week's CHOW to press them on some of the subject matter raised in thier talk on slavery.

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Written on: 28-07-2013
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Tags: Christianity | Church | Corporate Responsibility | Ethics | Globalisation | Human Trafficking | Markets | Modern Day Slavery | Morality | Slavery

Christian Mission and "Doing Good"

Lessons for the church from activism

If our lives as Christians, as churches, as diocese and as a whole Communion is to be 'mission shaped', as some Bishops have suggested, then I would have to draw on my time...

Written on: 15-12-2012
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What do Christians really believe at Christmas?

A short look at a commonly misunderstood verse. (first published on

Innkeeper, Innkeeper, what's that you say? A stable lined with straw.

Innkeeper, Innkeeper, where will He lay? With friendly beasts in awe.

It quite common,...

Author: Simon Nash
Written on: 14-12-2012
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