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Theology and Church Viability

It is a cliché of our times that churches are declining.  Dwindling membership is a fact of life for many congregations.  But not for all churches.  Certainly not outside the West, where Christianity is rising in many nations.

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When the Church Loses its Way

In my devotional reading today I was reflecting on the career and fate of the sons of Eli. Hophni and Phinehas were religious leaders who were going very wrong, exploiting their priestly office for material gain and sexual favours. 1 Samuel 2: 25 reports that

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What do we love the most?

A deep problem with the west today is that we appear to have lost our capacity to love others. We love things more than we love people. We love our own ideas more than we love people. We love our money, possessions and fame more

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Drought-Proofing the Soul

When I was a kid I lived for a time in Western Queensland. The country was then in the grip of a terrible drought, when all the sheep had to eat was the leaves of the mulga trees. After a long period of dry, dry

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Dr Mark Durie is an academic, Anglican pastor, Writing Fellow at the Middle East Forum, and Senior Research Fellow of the Arthur Jeffery Centre for the Study of Islam at Melbourne School of Theology.
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