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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri: A brilliant film to hate
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri: A brilliant film to hate

Three Bilboards is a film that left me leaving the cinema with a spirit of heaviness, wishing that I had gone to see The Post instead.

These two great broadcasters are helping us appreciate creation
These two great broadcasters are helping us appreciate creation

Professor Cox talks about the whole thing being shot through with magic. And for me the question is can there be magic without a magician.

Trump's Afghanistan strategy under spotlight after 11 dead in fourth attack on Kabul
Trump's Afghanistan strategy under spotlight after 11 dead in fourth attack on Kabul

Donald Trump's strategy in Afghanistan is under the spotlight after 11 soldiers were killed in the fourth major attack on the capital Kabul in the last nine days.

The Post review: in the fake news age, the truth shall set you free
The Post review: in the fake news age, the truth shall set you free

It's no coincidence that a film about the freedom of the press has been released at the very moment that this freedom is at great threat of being eroded.

The Pandora's Box of Spiritual Abuse is out: Here's what the Church must do
The Pandora's Box of Spiritual Abuse is out: Here's what the Church must do

We need to open this issue up, it will be painful and I don't know where the boundaries should be drawn, but we can't duck it if we are genuinely to be a Church of healing and flourishing.

What Barack Obama's Christianity can teach white evangelicals
What Barack Obama's Christianity can teach white evangelicals

Evangelicals may find such attention as they received from Barack Obama more hard to come by after the Trump era takes its full toll.

Church of England calls for ban on daytime gambling adverts amid warnings of 'moral crisis'
Church of England calls for ban on daytime gambling adverts amid warnings of 'moral crisis'

The Church of England is warning of a 'moral crisis' facing children and young people as a study revealed two in three teenagers feels bombarded by adverts for betting firms.

'How are we to live?': Afghan capital in shock after ambulance bomb kills over 100
'How are we to live?': Afghan capital in shock after ambulance bomb kills over 100

Kabul reacted in despair and fear on Sunday, a day after a suicide bomb killed more than 100 people and wounded at least 235 in the worst attack seen in the Afghan capital in months.

The Scot who gave her life at Auschwitz: Christian martyr honoured at new heritage centre
The Scot who gave her life at Auschwitz: Christian martyr honoured at new heritage centre

The legacy of a Scottish Christian who gave her life to protect Jewish schoolgirls in World War Two will be kept 'alive' in a heritage centre honouring her life and martyrdom, opening in Scotland today.

Taliban ambulance bomb kills at least 95, wounds more than 150 in Kabul
Taliban ambulance bomb kills at least 95, wounds more than 150 in Kabul

A bomb hidden in an ambulance killed at least 95 people and wounded about 158 in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Saturday when it blew up at a police checkpoint.

Has a film-maker really captured footage of a golden 'glory cloud' at Bethel church?
Has a film-maker really captured footage of a golden 'glory cloud' at Bethel church?

In Charismatic terms, it's the Holy Grail in every sense. A miraculous event, not just reported, but apparently captured on film.

Bishop slams 'archaic' UK marriage rules
Bishop slams 'archaic' UK marriage rules

A bill aimed at ending the 'historic injustice' of excluding mothers' names from marriage certificates has passed its first parliamentary stage.

The 'post-Christian' generation: 3 ways they (might) find God outside church
The 'post-Christian' generation: 3 ways they (might) find God outside church

A study this week found that many amongst Generation Z (those born between 1999 and 2015), 'find God' outside of Church. So where might that be exactly, and should the church take note?

Luis Palau family: Cancer has spread but he is at peace with the Lord
Luis Palau family: Cancer has spread but he is at peace with the Lord

The family of evangelist Luis Palau, diagnosed recently with stage 4 lung cancer, has said the cancer has spread but that he and his wife Patricia 'remain absolutely at peace in the Lord'.

Evangelicals celebrate Trump's announcement of pathway for Dreamers
Evangelicals celebrate Trump's announcement of pathway for Dreamers

Evangelicals leaders are celebrating Donald Trump's announcement of a 'pathway' that could allow hundreds of thousands of people, brought into the US illegally as children, to apply for citizenship.

Feeding the hungry: How answered prayer confirms faith
Feeding the hungry: How answered prayer confirms faith

If someone were to ask me what would be the most significant, impactful thing that has happened to me since joining Feed the Hungry in 2010, I would say it was making prayer my companion.