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Joshua D Jones, pastor of Therfield Chapel, Cambridge, UK, blogger at Sanity’s Cove, vlogger at Counterfeit Vlog, has written a great devotional for our times. The title is a bit strange but the content is spot on – punchy, Reformation-style preaching in 80 short chapters like a volley of flaming arrows. Elijah The focus of … Continue reading
Steve Fuller (Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology, University of Warwick, UK) in his foreword to a new book, describes the way in which the Reformation in Europe 500 years ago opened the way for and may even be said to have birthed modern science. But he goes further to describe how, just as the church … Continue reading
Really helpful piece from Peter Muturi on the danger of ‘purpose’ language turning inward. What is your purpose? I have been trying to figure out where the idea of “living your purpose” began in Christian circles. At face value it sounds good and is true because we are greatly loved and cherished (not because we … Continue reading
Rachel Jones from our friends The Good Book Company, writes on the angst of her generation and a new resource aimed to reach them. I’m 24, and if the media is to be believed—I’m part of a miserable generation. Barely a week goes by without another article appearing which bemoans the bleak state of affairs … Continue reading
Harrison Mungai Macharia is Managing Editor of Conversation Magazine and Team Leader of iServe Africa, an indigenous Christian leadership development programme. We asked him how it has been juggling family responsibilities, theological studies, founding and leading iServe Africa and pioneering a new magazine. How have the last eight years of iServe Africa been? … Continue reading
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. “Honour your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise— “so that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth.” Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger but bring them up in the … Continue reading
In the last issue of Conversation Magazine, Mary Njeri puts the spotlight on some shocking data. According to International Bulletin of Missionary Research’s most recent ‘Status of Global Mission’ report, less than 2% (somewhere around 1.8%) of the income of Christians is given to the church or para-church organisations. Of this small fraction, the way … Continue reading
At Conversation Magazine we want to start healthy conversations that are not happening and encourage rare conversations that should be more common. Here are some resources to start a conversation on the reality of depression among Christians. Martyn Lloyd Jones, Spiritual Depression: It’s Causes and It’s Cure. John Hindley, Suffering & Singing: Knowing God’s Love … Continue reading
The ratio of men to women in Kenyan churches ranges from 1:2 to 1:4 (Mbogo, CM #4) so the work of David Murrow, though very much from and aimed at the US context, scratches a very real East African itch. Many of his analyses of the problem and criticisms of the church are spot on. … Continue reading
The Bible starts with a garden but ends with a garden city. The biggest Gentile mission of the Old Testament was to a city – Nineveh. In the most recent issue of Conversation Magazine, Gerald Mwangi looks at the issue of urban mission. Perhaps the strongest contemporary proponent of God’s focus on cities is Tim Keller and his … Continue reading
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