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Scottish Bible Podcast

Yesterday we had the joy of welcoming the two Ewans to our home – Ewan (sr) and Ewan (jr) Gurr, who host and produce the Scottish Bible Podcast. This father and son team, broadcast daily readings from Scripture as they seek to read the whole Bible in this way in the year. It’s a great…

John and The Sudans (part 1)

John and the Sudans My connection with and commitment to the churches in Sudan and South Sudan is known of by many, but perhaps less well-known, especially as time passes, is the story behind that ongoing relationship, not to mention the depth of it.  With the planned return visit South Sudanese Christians in September, I…

Back to Juba (well nearly)

Almost exactly 25 years after my first visit to Khartoum in Sudan, and 17 years since my last visit to Juba in South Sudan, I have accepted an invitation from the leaders of the Africa Inland Church in South Sudan (AIC-SS) to lead a Church Workers’ Conference from Monday 7 – Friday 11 September. Unfortunately,…

This Day in HIS-story: February 24

303 HT: Dan Graves DIOCLETIAN became Roman emperor in 284. Under him, the empire experienced its cruelest and most systematic persecution of Christians. To share the load of governance, he made Maximian his co-emperor and Galerius and Constantius junior emperors. To bind Galerius to himself, Diocletian gave him his daughter Valeria as a wife, allegedly…