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  • 6 Jul 2011
    Methodists urged to be extra-ordinary people

    In her first speech as Methodist Conference, Vice-President, Ruth Pickles says the church can help ordinary people do extra-ordinary things.

  • 4 Oct 2010
    Methodist Church launches its first electronic book

    The Methodist Church in Britain is launching its first e-book as its renewed emphasis on practical Christian living in a changing world gathers momentum.

  • 6 Jul 2010
    Living towards a non-institutional future

    The origins of Christianity are in a dynamic and free movement around Jesus, but much of its history is bound up with institutional religion, says Simon Barrow. The challenge is to continue to respond to the transformative impulse of the Gospel, even in the midst of organisation and complexity.

  • 12 Apr 2009
    The resurrection has to be lived

    The resurrection of Christ is not an argument to be had but a life to be lived, says Rowan Williams. We need to hear what is so often the question that's really being asked when people ask, 'How do you know?'

  • 25 Feb 2009
    Deadly procedure, life-giving action

    The Church of England's General Synod produces the headlines, says Giles Fraser. But this is not the true church. They are somewhere else, trying to make a real difference to the world.

  • 22 Apr 2008
    Why Christianity remains a novel idea

    The Gospel has been much talked about but practically sidelined under Christendom, says Jonathan Bartley. Rediscovering the radicalism of Jesus' message is vital to the recovery of a proper public role for Christian faith.

  • 17 Oct 2007
    Being agents of transformation

    What we need in the Church is not less ambition, but more, argues Giles Fraser. We are charged with the most ambitious calling of them all: to be agents of God’s all-transforming love to the world.

  • 16 May 2007
    Bishop has a go at 'cupcake Christians'

    Bishop Peter Price of Bath & Wells, who has been forthright in his opposition to war and global poverty, has said that people who ignore Jesus' teachings but turn him into a morsel of personal comfort are 'cupcake Christians'.