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Tom Treseder’s baby turns 36

Posted on 11/01/2024 by John Sandeman

Back in 1988, Tom Treseder drew a picture of an iPad. It was the birth of MegaVoice, a company that has produced 3.6 million audio Bible machines and coincidently turns 36 today.Tom is now 91 and is living proof that… Continue Reading →

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The New York Times goes searching for Trump’s evangelicals and finds they are different.

Posted on 09/01/2024 by John Sandeman
Donald Trump in Iowa

In a recent piece on The Other Cheek, political scientist Ryan Burge explored why Americans are shedding the “Evangelical” label – in 2008, 33 per cent of Americans surveyed said they were “evangelical” or “born again”; by 2022, those responses… Continue Reading →

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Salvos stand firm, cash money disappears, and I love Otto Wagner

Posted on 09/01/2024 by John Sandeman

Salvoes fire a salvo: A lovely story about The Salvation Army (TSA) being faithful to its beliefs, told by commenter Ben White in a debate on The Other Cheek Facebook on religious discrimination laws and what exemptions should remain: “In… Continue Reading →

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Righter than the right, lefter than the left: Reading historian John Dickson and thinking about the present

Posted on 08/01/2024 by John Sandeman
left and right arrows

History has a way of rhyming, if not repeating, and John Dickson’s book Bullies and Saints: An Honest Look at the Good and Evil of Christian History gives this reader an introduction to patterns of Christian blundering. But as often… Continue Reading →

Latest, News Christian news, Religious Freedom, Same-sex marriage

Excerpt: ‘It’s interesting that we are so passionate about justice, and so outraged when something is ‘not fair’, especially when it is not fair to us.’

Posted on 07/01/2024 by John Sandeman
The Christian Gospel cover

Book Excerpt: Tony Payne’s The Christian Gospel is a book to give away to someone who wants (or needs) a short explanation of what following Jesus is all about and why anyone would do it. This except comes as Tony… Continue Reading →

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Have Evangelicals made secret plans to split the church they ask in England; but what about here?

Posted on 06/01/2024 by John Sandeman
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Responding to a piece by theologian Andrew Goddard on the widely read (especially in England) blog Psephizo, the question is, “Have Evangelicals made secret plans to split the church?”  The church in question is the Church of England, and the… Continue Reading →

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An Interesting time to fly to Japan, and a God with feathers

Posted on 04/01/2024 by John Sandeman
At Hong Kong Airport

I am stealing a few minutes at Hong Kong International Airport to write as I stop over on the way to Japan, a land suddenly wracked by twin disasters, an earthquake and an airport runway crash with a miracle escape… Continue Reading →

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Which Christians Are Abandoning The Evangelical Label?

Posted on 03/01/2024 by John Sandeman
US church Central United Methodist Church, Albemarle, North Carolina

ANALYSIS Pastor and researcher Ryan Burge gives a detailed report on whether the word “evangelical” is still a word US Christians still want to use. (ANALYSIS) I think it may be the most toxic word in American religion — evangelical.… Continue Reading →

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Meeting a non-Christian friend for Bible, brunch, coffee, a cuppa or a beer

Posted on 03/01/2024 by John Sandeman
Lunch and beer sign

Charles Brammall reveals his tried and tested habits. Ask non-Christian friends (or even acquaintances) if they’d like to read a chapter of the Bible with you over a drink and a snack. Suggest some venues (including your place), but let… Continue Reading →

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The biggest story of 2023 came out of Africa

Posted on 31/12/2023 by John Sandeman
Gamasara church portrai

On an April Sunday, The Other Cheek was one of two Westerners to visit Gamasara church in a remote part of Tanzania. I went to Africa to report the worldwide gathering of Anglicans known as Gafcon (the Global African Future… Continue Reading →

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