Easter – the events that change everything
All religious festivals provide opportunities to think about God and eternity. Easter provides a particular opportunity to think about Jesus: who He is and what He has done.
Gordon Showell-Rogers
CDI International Director
Articles by Gordon Showell-Rogers
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[Book review] Covered Glory: The Face of Honor and Shame in the Muslim World
This disturbing book is extraordinarily inspiring: within all the painful stories (real stories, full of shame), there’s extraordinary life, hope and redemption.
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[Book review] Divided: why we’re living in an age of walls
Believing in a Creator who made all people equal and in a Saviour who is building a church of every tribe and nation, then Christians should surely be taking the lead in addressing the divisions of our deeply polarised world.
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God chose to come into this world without status or power
As the time to celebrate the birth of Jesus approaches, friends and I have been thinking about Jesus’ words recorded in Mark 10:13-16. For years, I thought that ‘receiving the Kingdom of God like a little child’ referred to innocence – or to being trusting. Maybe it does include that. I, for one, feel I have a lot to learn about genuinely trusting God, in our deeply disturbed world. But someone recently pointed out to me that the main defining characteristic of children in first century Palestin
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[Book Review] God Is Not a White Man: and Other Revelations
McDonald has created an extraordinarily beautiful and illuminating tapestry from the Bible’s story intertwined with her life experience as a black British woman of Nigerian heritage. It’s a deeply personal book that is both a study of historical and contemporary racial realities and an exploration of how Christian theology has become very white.
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