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What is World Evangelism?: Notes from the Lausanne Congress, Cape Town South Africa
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Joan Ball
More than 4200 Christians from across the globe will spend the next week and a half discussing the future of evangelicalism as part of the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelism in Cape Town, South Africa. You can follow the Congress via video and audio through posts on Twitter and Facebook . I’ll also be posting…
Reflections on the Chilean Miner Rescue: Guest Post from Pastor Bruce Barnard
By
Joan Ball
“Don’t push your way to the front; don’t sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead.” Philippians 2:3 (The Message) No one has missed the headline story this week – 33 Chilean miners are being rescued after being trapped for an agonizing 69 days. It’s an incredible story with a…
Write Your “Six-Word Journey” at Killing the Buddha…
By
Joan Ball
Can you boil down your spiritual journey to just six words? The writers at Killing the Buddha thing so and have collected some beautiful and thought-provoking “six-word spiritual memoirs” in the comments section of their post titled Six Word Journey. If you’ve never read Killing the Buddha, you should check it out. Described as “a religion…
Secularist Sam Harris Suggests that Moral Truth Exists…But Not in Faith
By
Joan Ball
In this TED clip, author, secularist and CEO of Project Reason, Sam Harris discusses the relationship between science and morality, arguing that questions of good, evil, right and wrong can be observed and answered by science. He argues that matters of “human flourishing”–which have traditionally been considered the milieu of faith, religion and philosophy–can and…
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