Album review: Clannad celebrates 40 years of heavenly harmonies
Nádúr /Christ Church Cathedral (CD and DVD) Clannad (ARC Music) Forty years of heavenly harmonies by Irish band Clannad have been marked with not only a live album and DVD…
Album review: Hope, ache and struggle after the heady days of “Delirious?”
Of Burdens, Birds and Stars Stu G Gone are the days when we used to sing twee “happy ever after” songs about the Christian life. Older and wiser, some of…
CD review: “Deeper wells of worship” in a sung liturgy for a healing service
The Healing Experience Grenville Richard Harding and Jane Weeden Classical music remains on the edge of mainstream worship in the 21st century. Yes, some churches might experiment with a “special…
We have ways of making you tolerant…!
The writing is on the wall – or screen – for our every unguarded conversation to be monitored. The EU’s new tolerance directive will require each state to have a…
Billy Graham pleads for pastor in Iran jail
BILLY GRAHAM HAS WRITTEN TO THE IRANIAN PRESIDENT TO PLEAD PERSONALLY FOR A JAILED PASTOR. Even President Obama raised the US citizen’s plight with President Rouhani.
How Monty halted a Middle East Holocaust
A desert race for oil and a dictator with genocidal intentions. Sounds familiar? The discovery of a unique Bible presented to General Montgomery by a grateful Jewish population shows that…
When Sunday buses stopped at churches
ANN WHITAKER, THE AUTHOR of last issue’s brilliant leaflet insert, “When the nation prayed” about WWII, writes: