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Archive: May 2009

Preaching Re-imagined

Issue publishedMay 2009 Author Ruth Dickinson

A wave of US and UK preachers have begun to make moves away from traditional expository preaching. But do they represent innovative new ways of reaching people, or a disastrous abandonment of the only way to communicate the gospel?

‘Evangelicals are good at dying in the wrong ditch'

Issue publishedMay 2009 Author Andy Walton

Tom Wright, one of the world’s leading New Testament scholars and a senior bishop in the Church of England, talks to Christianity - PLUS web-exclusive questions

Guilt free pleasure?

Issue publishedMay 2009 Author Hazel Southam

Dairy Milk might be as bad for the waistline as it always was, but the recent announcement from Cadbury means that it might no longer tug at our ethical conscience. But what exactly does it mean to have gone Fairtrade, and what difference will it make?

Jesus Christ, soap star?

Issue publishedMay 2009 Author Justin Thacker

The UK’s top two TV soaps both have positive storylines featuring evangelical Christians. What’s going on? Justin Thacker, who is advising Coronation Street and EastEnders producers, explains…

Paying power

Issue publishedMay 2009 Author John Buckeridge

John Buckeridge wonders about the consumer’s ability to influence corporations

My boyfriend won't marry me

Issue publishedMay 2009 Author Margaret Ellis

I’m 30 and for the past three-and-a-half years have been going out with a man who has come to be the love of my life. Although we fancy each other we have chosen not to go too far physically. The problem is that although he says he loves me, whenever we talk about the future and the possibility of getting married he gets cold feet...