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You've just enjoyed a discussion of autonomy in an ethics seminar. During the coffee break your friend asks: 'You Christians seemed to have a lot to say in that session. What do you actually believe?' You've got five minutes. What will you say? The motto 'Be Prepared' is important...
Two sisters attended our surgery in a predominantly Asian part of town. They always came together and came often. They had various complaints and mostly different symptoms. But no sooner was one thing better than another complaint presented itself. I was the only female GP and they mostly came to...
It's entirely possible that many student readers of Nucleus will hardly know the name Billy Graham. But at the peak of his powers Billy Graham ranked with Martin Luther King as one of America's best known and most respected twentieth-century Christian leaders and with Mother Teresa and Pope John-Paul II...
'If I were you I would go out and buy a ticket for a boat going on the longest journey you can find and pray to know where to get off. If God doesn't want you on that boat he is perfectly able to stop you… or make the ship...
'For me there is no redemption, no penance great enough' says Mendoza — a former slave trader and mercenary who is chained and fixated by depression and the guilt of his past. Through bold cinematography and a skilfully composed musical score, The Mission (1986) takes us on a journey of...
Let the Nations Be Glad John Piper ISBN: 9780801036415, Baker Academic, 2010 (3rd Edn), £9.99 paperback, £6.64 Kindle Missions is not a recruitment project for God's labour force. It is a liberation project from the heavy burdens and hard yokes of...
St George's, University of London It's been exciting to be part of mission weeks at St George's, University of London — I have attended one and planned two. Each university varies (we're mainly healthcare sciences) and so mission weeks will look different. But what are the fundamentals to making events flourish?...
A doctor returned from a mission situation in Cameroon because of threats from the terror group Boko Haram. She attended a Saline course and we asked 'Can she be a missionary within the NHS? Or does she have to wait until going abroad again?' the world on our doorstep A Birmingham...
Social action is the alleviation of human suffering and injustice, exploitation and deprivation. It has been a feature of Christian mission from the start. The apostles James, Peter and John urged Paul when he launched his mission to the gentiles: 'All they asked was that we should continue to remember...
What do you see as the end or goal of history? Many Westerners hope for the establishment of liberal free market democracies around the world. Others despair at the looming environmental catastrophes threatening to convulse the planet. Many atheists assume that humanity is an accident of nature heading for extinction,...
