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Christian Concern For Our Nation have issued a plea to churches of all denominations in the run up to the next meeting of the Anglican General Synod.

“On February 28^th the Church of England’s decision-making body, the General Synod, will be debating two crucial motions on the subject of homosexuality in the Church. Because the Church of England is the state church the media often report their debates on sexuality as if representative of the views of all Christian denominations. The 28^th February debate is therefore of vital importance in making a stand for Biblical truth. We are calling for Christians across this country from every denomination to call upon the Church of England at the General Synod to make a clear and principled stand.”

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A new film to be released this month tells the story of the British statesman and reformer William Wilberforce and his fight, two hundred years ago, to abolish the British slave trade.The film shows the link from Wilberforce to John Newton, himself a slave trader who incredibly became a Christian and wrote the famous hymn ‘Amazing Grace’ as his personal testimony.

Watch the trailer:

Or you could click here to read an online biography of Wilberforce written by John Piper (with a forward by Jonathan Aitken).

Richard Dawkins’ latest book ‘The God Delusion’ was one of the best sellers this last Christmas. He is the Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University, and one of a group of influential writers and thinkers known as ‘the new atheists’, driven by an evangelical fervour to convert others to their way of thinking. As he writes in the introduction, ‘If this book works as I intend, religious readers who open it will be atheists when they put it down’.

I came across this fascinating interview with him. It gives a real insight into what he thinks, and suggests some ways in which his particular brand of atheism can be undermined.