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Christian Journal – 1996/4 – Water

Christian Journal – 1996/4 – Water

Articles
Brian Clarke: Water – under pressure
Simon Barrow: Water. Gift or Commodity?
Richard Fernandez: Meter madness
Ray Heslop: Thirsty cities and the sanitary crisis
John Gould: Harvesting the rain
Success stories: Pumps in Nepal; Pits in Ethiopia
Ama Annan: Water and Conflict in the Nile Basin
Stephen Verney: Rivers flowing through the desert
 
Poetry
Mike Perks: Granny is an Icon
Margaret Connor: Meeting place
 
Liturgy Water of Life, compiled by Michaela Morris
Reviews ‘Retrieving Fundamental Theology’ by Geoffrey O’Collins SJ
‘Human Rites’ ed Hannah Ward and Jennifer Wild
‘The Cured Arno’ by Jack Clemo.

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Christian Journal – 1993/1 – Work

Christian Journal – 1993/1 – Work

Articles
David Bleakley: Beyond work
Eileen Maybin: Weaving through debt
Ricarda Leask: Work
Geoffrey Brogden: Givers – not receivers. The potential of the unemployed
Robin Richardson” Quite an Agenda – jobs and racial justice
Chris Beedle: Overwork
Sr Eileen Mary: Who am I?
 
Poetry
Mary Sheepshanks: Dust Storm
Geoffrey Daniel: Madonna of the Washing
Jean Harrison: That human hands have made
David Lethbridge: On a mantlepiece
 
Liturgy Some modern psalms
 
Film review Sister Act
Book reviews
‘What lies ahead – listening to refugees’ by Christians Aware
‘Still following Christ in a consumer society’ by John F Kavanagh
‘Celebrating Common Prayer’.

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Christian Journal – 1997/1 – Communication

Christian Journal – 1997/1 – Communication

Articles
Dafne Plou: Global Communications Imbalance
Michael Durber: Looking for God in Babel
Graham Starling: Low-tech high-technology
Sophia Marriage and Dilip Sequeira: The Internet and the World-Wide Web
Peter Hall: A Church slowto speak
Simon Barrow: The Tabloid Pulpit
Ruth Page: The trouble with relatives
Elaine Kennedy: The Messenger
Claire Laland: Make your voice heard
Belinda Searle-Barnes: Healing beyond words
Kenneth Leech: Transforming , communicative silence
Updates from earlier issues of Christian
 
Poetry
Andrea Mitchell: The work Christmas involves
E Leat: Unto you is born
Andrea Mitchell: Who are you?
 
Liturgy  WACC World Congress, Mexico.

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Christian Journal – 1993/2 – Human Sexuality

Christian Journal – 1993/2 – Human Sexuality

Articles
John S Spong: Monogamy
Susan Howatch: Clerical Casualties
Ann Lewin: Sex and the single Christian
Alwyn Marriage: In praise of Sexuality and Spirituality
Ruth H Sihlangu: Adolescent sexuality in Zimbabwe
Elizabeth Stuart: Bearing the marks of crucifixion – or resurrection
Richard Holloway: Can the Church lead the way towards a new sexual ethic?
 
Poetry
Margaret Connor: The First Time
Andrew Salmon: Helen
Andrew Salmon: Adultery
Rupert M Loydell: Touching Truth
 
Liturgy  Meditations by Jim Cotter
Book reviews
‘Daring to speak love’s name’ ed Elizabeth Stuart
‘Partners in Protests’ by Diana Collins
Exhibition review
Eric Gill, Barbican Gallery.

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Christian Journal – 1997/2 – Reconciliation

Christian Journal – 1997/2 – Reconciliation

Articles
Paul Oestreicher: Reconciliation. A search for its meaning
David and Frances Hawkey: Small steps to reconciliation
Diana and John Lampen: The truth shall make you free
Shanthi Hettiarachchi: Reconciliation, a religious challenge
Nelson Kraybill: Conflict and Church Decision Making
Mary Jo Radcliffe: A reconciling symbol
Ian Johnson: Learning from Hebron
 
Poetry
Jean Blanchard: Bird of Passage
Eric Leat: The Last Supper
Margaret Connor: Spring
Updates from earlier issues of Christian
 
Liturgy for Reconciliation compiled by Ruth Harvey
Reviews
‘Peace in Ireland, Two States, One People’ by David Bleakley
‘Celebration. A story of suffering and joy’ by Margaret Spufford.

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Christian Journal – 1993/3 – Music

Christian Journal – 1993/3 – Music

Articles
Jonathan Dove: Making a joyful noise
Terri Coyle: To face the music
Maggie Hamilton: Sing freedom!
Gabrielle Power: Quality versus participation?
Tony Jasper: Contemporaty Music and Protest
David Stancliffe: Tuning our lives
 
Poetry
Mary Grey: Meditation for Annunciation – Lady Day
Stephen Tunnicliffe: Bow in the Cloud
Alex Warner: Keeper of the Bees
Alex Warner: Oh Wisdom
 
Liturgy 4 new hymns by June Boyce-Tillman
Book reviews
‘In tune with heaven’, Report of Archbishops’ Commission on Church Music
‘Euros Bowen. Priest-poet’ ed Cynthia & Saunders Davies
‘Approach to Murano’ Jack Clemo
‘Mass for hard times’ R S Thomas
Band review  ‘Iona. Band on the Wall’.

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Christian Journal – 1997/3 – Community

Christian Journal – 1997/3 – Community

Articles
Jeanne Hinton: Little acorns grow
Gillian Maher: Social Action to Community
Alan J Riley: Is there a European community?
Jennifer Wild: Community after Community
Colin Evans: The value of soap
Brett Webb-Mitchell: Standing in need of prayer
Gemma Simmonds, IBVM: Religious community
Jean Mayland: Reconciling the broken community of women and men in the Church
Jean Vanier: Community, a place of healing and growth
 
Poetry
Ivy Russell: Eyes of Love
Andrea Mitchell: My cup is full
Sophie Moore: Cook me up a poem
Frances M Thomas: Prayer
 
Community Liturgy by Kate McIlhagga
Reviews
‘The Sign of Love’ by Tim Gorringe
‘I tell you a mystery’ by Johann Christoph Arnold
‘Theology and Sociology. A reader’ ed Robin Gill
‘Dictionary of Feminist Theologies’ ed Letty Russell and Shannon Clarkson.

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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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