Author Archives: The Briefing
Lessons from the samurai
Interchange
New creed on hell and the cross
Interchange
The cross and Islamic evangelism
Interchange
September 11 and evangelism
Interchange
The Good Life and the New Creation
Redundancy: the Good,the Bad and the Ugly
Interview: Is any doctrine worth dying for?
Christian unity and denominations
Thought
This is the third and final essay in a series by John Woodhouse on the nature of Christian unity. The first two articles are also available in our online archives: ‘When to unite and when to divide’ and ‘The unity of the church’.
Diary of a Paris Missionary
Dialogue in the workplace: the Westpac experience
The secret meaning of Passover
As a Jewish Christian I have often been asked by churches at Easter to speak about the Jewish Passover or to perform a demonstration of one. Churches seem fascinated by it. It looks like it would be helpful background to understanding the Last Supper and therefore Jesus’ death.
‘He descended into hell’
Thought
One thing that has puzzled me ever since I went to church as a teenager was the line I used to say in the Apostle’s Creed: “He descended into hell”. When I said this, my mind was filled with all sorts of fantastic images of Jesus plummeting through the earth on Easter Saturday to a place where the devil lived and where the fire burned continually. I didn’t really know what it meant, but I was happy to say it, because, after all, it was in the creed that the apostles had written, right?