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Christian Journal – 1993/4 – The Dispossessed

Christian Journal – 1993/4 – The Dispossessed

Articles
Magali do Nascimento Cunha: Good news from the dispossessed
Lily Griffiths: East Timor’s struggle for self-determination
Eileen Barker: Armenia
Geoffrey Brogden: The cost of being different. Romany
Heather Spears: Children of the Intifada
Frank Turner, SJ: Theological Reflections
 
Poetry
Martyn Halsall: Advent
Margaret McAllister: The Woman in Blue
Verrier Elwin: The Child and the Rood
 
Liturgy by Janet Hodgson
Book review
‘Din Sevak, Verrier Elwin’s life of service in tribal India’
Exhibition review
Henry Moore and the sea. Pallant House, Chichester.

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Christian Journal – 1997/4 – Imprisonment

Christian Journal – 1997/4 – Imprisonment

Articles
Paul Cavadino: Purposes of Imprisonment
John R Cassayd-Smith: Thoughts on being inside
James Ozigi: Black people in prison – a cause for concern
Beverley A Lawrence Beech: Lock ‘em up – and take away the key
Peter Knapper: Shalom and Reconciliation
Hugh Marriage: Tagging -  the alternative for the Millenium
Marcel: Marcel’s story
Alison Cobb: Mental prison
 
Poetry
Linda Hunter: Tight-rope walker
Bernard Saint: Fountain
 
Liturgy Prayers for prisoners of conscience, from Amnesty International
Video review ‘The Life of Lindisfarne’, Pathway Productions
Music review ‘Elements’ by Maggi Dawn
Book reviews
‘Prejudice in Religion’, ed Peter Cornwall
‘Catholicism. Hard questions’ by John Redford.

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Christian Journal – 1994/1 – Paths to Spirituality

Christian Journal – 1994/1 – Paths to Spirituality

Articles
Christine Roberts: Searching
Judith Lancaster: Prayer and the Preoccupied
Tim Jenkins: A Materialist Account of Prayer?
Sylvia Roberts: The People of God
Sheila Cassidy: Trust in Darkness
Walter Wink: Against perfectionism
 
Poetry
R Rabindranath Menon: Eden Revisited
June Maynard: New Birth
Pat Laycock: The Butterfly
Geoffrey Smith: Stop
 
Liturgy Come down to the tea run.
Book reviews
‘Towards the city’ Psalms by Jim Cotter
‘Gather the fragments’ Alan Ecclestone
‘The F-word’ by Caroline Bailey & Martin Davies.

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Christian Journal – 1998/1 – Rediscovering the Bible

Christian Journal – 1998/1 – Rediscovering the Bible

Articles
 
Colin Greene: Rediscovering the Bible
Mona D Hooker: The words and the Word
Carlos Mesters: The Bible in the hands of the poor
Chris Peck: Razor blade or rubber hammer?
Ivana Dolejsova: The Bible as a tool for resistance
Robert Beckford: Prayer meeting hermeneutics
Kristin Ofstad: Assembling the picture
John Henson: Introducing One, version of the New Testament
 
Poetry
Louise Swanston: A Prayer for all Seasons
Audrey Smallpiece: New Song
 
Liturgy prepared by Graham Maule
Video review ‘The Story Keepers’, Mowbray
Book reviews
‘James, Brother of Jesus’ by Pierre-Antoine Bernheim
‘Grace and mortgage’ by Peter Selby.

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Christian Journal – 1994/2 – To Act Justly

Christian Journal – 1994/2 – To Act Justly

Articles
Shakuntala Banaji: Universal justice. Utopia or reality?
David Haslam: The struggle against apartheid
Andrew Radford: Baby milk action
Dee Price: Light a candle, curse the darkness
Stephen Hancock: Swords into ploughshares
Edmond L Browning: Calling the Church to stewardship
Thomas Cullinan: When you eat this bread …
 
Poetry
Philip Allin: Ex libris
Virginia Rounding: Surrounded
Anne Richards: Solomon’s judgement
Jean Blanchard: A poem for Holy Week
Geoffrey Smith: Under the fell
 
Liturgy A liturgy for peace in a time of trouble. Doreen Hudson-Tobin
Book reviews
‘Witness against the Beast’ E P Thompson
‘Psalms of patience, protest and praise’. John Bell
‘Engaging the Powers’ by Walter Wink.

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Christian Journal – 1998/2 – International Encounter

Christian Journal – 1998/2 – International Encounter

Articles
David Cowling: From Encounter to Transformation
Jeanne Hinton: Experiencing the Church in movement
Margaret Opie-Smith: More than strangers on our doorstep
Sue Keegan von Allmen: Making mission meaningful
Mark Sanger and Heinz Hunke: Meeting in Cyberspace
Asha Cornelius: Partners in a time of change
Ann Dew: Turning the prayer wheels
Simon Barrow: Encountering otherness in Christ
 
Poetry
Ann Lewin: Unwelcome visitor (after breast cancer)
Ann Lewin: Marked for life
Ann Lewin: Vulnerable
Margaret Connor: Late Spring
 
Liturgy Encountered in God – A Meditation. Ernesto Cardenal
Book reviews
‘Dancing on the Edge’ by Richard Holloway
‘God and the web of creation’ by Ruth Page.

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Christian Journal – 1994/3 – The Play Is The Thing

Christian Journal – 1994/3 – The Play Is The Thing

Articles 
Michael Austin: Theatre & Liturgy
Keith Ramsay: The postwar revival of the Mystery Plays
Fiona Shaw: Some weeks ago I flew to Ireland
Vicky Ireland: The place of live theatre in the emotional world of the child
Peri Aston: Things fall together
James Roose-Evans: a ritual grows as we grow
Anthony Masters: Community Acting
Kate Partridge: The Prodigal Daughter
 
Poetry
Sheila Cassidy: The Kingdom of God
 
Liturgy ‘The play’s the thing’, compiled by Michael Sadgrove
Film reviews Schindler’s List and Shadowlands.

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Christian Journal – 1994/4 – Trevor Huddleston

Christian Journal – 1994/4 – Trevor Huddleston

Articles
Ruth McCurry interviews Archbishop Trevor Huddleston
Nadir Dinshaw: Interfaith ecumenism
Sr Denzil: Still point in a turning world
Eric James: One Sunday in Sophiatown
Jeremy Davies: Struggle and Contemplation
Sam Bickersteth: In the steps of Trevor Huddleston – Masasi 1991
Harry Matthews: The Huddleston Centre for Handicapped Children
Julian ScharfL Trevor Huddleston in East London
Desmond Tutu: Tribute to Archbishop Trevor Huddleston CR
 
Poetry
Jack Clemo: George Muller
Heather Spears: Household
 
Liturgy Love by Oswald Mtshali.

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Christian Journal – 1995/1 – Transport of Delight

Christian Journal – 1995/1 – Transport of Delight

Articles
Baz Wielenga: The Idol of Speed and the God of Life
Transport correspondent: The Sane Alternative
Jo Jennings: Sheffield Transport
Nigel Coates: Transport Policy in Oxford
Alan Storkie: A Christian Economics of Transport
Sophia Marriage: Oxleas wood
BR employee: The story of the Settle to Carlisle Line
Philip Insall: Sustrans builds road to freedom
Timothy Gorringe: Pilgrimage
 
Poetry
Margaret J Cooke: Epiphany
Virginia Rounding: Nunc Dimittis
Michael Perks: God in winter
 
Liturgy Prayers for a journey. Kathy Galloway
Book reviews
‘With burning hearts’ by Henri Nousen
‘Capital and the Kingdom’ by Timothy Gorringe
‘Christian mission in the twentieth century’ by Timothy Yates.

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Christian Journal – 1995/2 – Africa

Christian Journal – 1995/2 – Africa

Articles
John Pobee: Daring to dream a new heaven and a new earth in Africa
Jeremy Pemberton: Bound for the Word of God
Julienne Munyaneza: Miracles do still happen
Denise Ackerman: Witness in South Africa
J A Azumah: Islam and Christianity in Africa
George Bebawi: Witness in Egypt
Carol Bebawi: Dialogue in Egypt
Jennifer Chiwela: The effect of Structural Adjustment Programmes on women in Zambia
 
Poetry
Makerere School of Fine Art: Garbage Birds
Margaret Connor: Gordon’s Garden Tomb
Margaret McAllister: Fruit harvest
Dinah Köjö: I saw No One
 
Liturgy for the Healing of the Nations in Africa. Devised by Janet Hodgson
Book reviews
‘Faces of Jesus in Africa’ ed Robert J Schreiter
‘The interpretation of the New Testament, 1861-1986. Stephen Neill & Tom Wright.

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Christian Journal – 1995/3 – The Rhythm of the Seasons

Christian Journal – 1995/3 – The Rhythm of the Seasons

Articles
David Adam: The Rhythm of the Seasons
Ronald Blythe: A Sacred Calendar
Hugh Monefiore: Gaia
Anthony Russell: The Church of England in the Contemporary Countryside
Terry Miller: Rural Reality
Patrick J Riley: A glance at what is happening at Glastonbury
William Denning: God’s dream
Tim Gorringe: Reflection
 
Poetry
Geoff Smith: Prayer Walk
Bernard Saint: Touch
Margaret Cooke: Destinations
 
Liturgy Celebration of the Abundance of Creation. Jane Horton & Mary Robins
Film review Priest
Book review ‘Celebrating Women’ ed Hannah Ward, Jennifer Wild, Janet Morley.

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Christian Journal – 1991/4 – Taking the Risk

Christian Journal – 1991/4 – Taking the Risk

Articles

Virginia Hoffman: Base Communities

Peter Price: UK and beyond

Margaret Walsh: Hope Community

Timothy Biles: Journey. A window on the Sudan

Ianthe Pratt: God talk and the community

Poetry

Prabhu S Guptara: Autumn

Marjorie Idle: The Murraymint

Liturgy on the theme of Listening

Book review

‘The Church in the midst of creation’ by Vincent J Donovan.

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