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  YouVersion Bible app reaches milestone 500 million downloads

  Jennifer Lee | Sat 13 Nov 2021 11:50 GMT

  "It's extremely humbling," says founder Bobby Gruenewald.

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  Kanye West courts controversy with Marilyn Manson appearance at Sunday Service

  Jennifer Lee | Fri 5 Nov 2021 21:07 GMT

  The presence of Marilyn Manson at Kanye West's most recent Sunday Service despite multiple sexual assault lawsuits has drawn an angry response from the shock rocker's accusers.

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  What the Church has got wrong about the end times - and how it can get it right!

  Martyn Whittock | Fri 5 Nov 2021 8:16 GMT

  Since the Church has a record of getting end times prophecies wrong, how should we approach this subject to try to avoid the errors of the past?

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  The sacredness of our Christian ruins

  Annie Sanderson | Mon 1 Nov 2021 8:34 GMT

  A little known chapel changed the fate of the cluster of settlements which would one day become the great northern city of Newcastle Upon Tyne.

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  Squid Game and how the Church can use culture to share the Christian message

  Anita Laryea | Sat 30 Oct 2021 6:09 BST

  "The supernatural sociology of the Gospel has a real opportunity to shine in the midst of a Squid Game world," says Dr Krish Kandiah.

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  Hillsong United and Chris Tomlin drop 'VIP' ticket after criticism

  Jennifer Lee | Tue 26 Oct 2021 6:35 BST

  Hillsong United and Chris Tomlin have removed a 'VIP' ticket option for an upcoming tour after being accused of commercialism.

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  Squid Game: Netflix's new Korean drama is brilliant, revealing and dangerous

  David Robertson | Tue 19 Oct 2021 10:44 BST

  Squid Game is a morality tale but one that offers no answers.

• Tyson Fury thanks his 'Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ' after beating Deontay Wilder

  Nicole Alcindor | Wed 13 Oct 2021 23:44 BST

  After retaining his heavyweight boxing title Saturday with an 11th-round knockout, British boxer Tyson Fury is giving God all the credit for having "raised" him to his feet during the fourth round of his fight against Deontay Wilder.

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  'It's been a great run' - Pat Robertson steps down as host of 'The 700 Club' after 54 years

  Jennifer Lee | Sat 2 Oct 2021 9:25 BST

  Pat Robertson has announced he is stepping down as host of The 700 Club, the evangelical current affairs TV show he has hosted for over half a century.

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  'God is everywhere and everyone,' says Coldplay's Chris Martin

  Jennifer Lee | Mon 27 Sep 2021 10:41 BST

  Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has opened up about his thoughts on God in a discussion with Howard Stern.

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  What can Harry Potter teach Christian preachers?

  Peter Crumpler | Mon 27 Sep 2021 7:05 BST

  Just eight miles separate two very different places of pilgrimage in Hertfordshire, north of London, where I serve as a Christian priest. One is St Albans Abbey. The other is the Harry Potter studios, where the eight blockbuster films were made. Both declare the power of 'the story' – but which, I wonder, resonates more with our 21st century culture?

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  There is much to appreciate in Melanie Phillips' first novel, The Legacy

  Irene Lancaster | Mon 20 Sep 2021 11:25 BST

  Yes, this first novel by great journalist, Melanie Phillips, who always tells it how it is, manages the impossible.