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Mar/Apr 2006 Edition

Idea magazine cover, March April 2006In this issue...

Message from the Rev Joel Edwards: In a television interview some years ago, Natalie Cole, daughter of singer Nat King Cole, was asked for her definition of heaven. Heaven, she said, was a place where everyone was doing things for everyone else and everything got done.  Read the whole article...

Survey identifies leadership skills gap: 'Trustworthiness is based on character, what you are as a person, and competence, what you can do. If you have faith in my character but not in my competence, you still wouldn't trust me.’ Read the whole article...

Reduce, reuse, recycle: For seven years, the cry of New Labour has been, “Education, education, education”. Central to education are the 3Rs: reading, writing and arithmetic. Today we need an education of a new kind. That has its own 3Rs: reduce, re-use and recycle. Read the whole article...

Atonement and unity: Evangelical unity is a precious if somewhat elusive prize. The Evangelical Alliance was established in 1846 to promote Christian unity, evangelical truth and religious liberty, but the newly born world movement faced an immediate setback when there were major disagreements over slavery, forcing some Americans to withdraw. Read the whole article...

Isn't it all just a matter of faith? Faith is believing what you want to believe, yet cannot prove,’ Sadly many people, including many Christians, live with this definition of faith.  Read the whole article...

In Mar/Apr 2006 idea

Atonement and Unity
An article looking at the Alliance's position of penal substitution.
Reduce, reuse, recycle.
Hazel Southam looks at the high cost of our consumer society, and what Christians are doing to protect God's creation...
Survey identifies leadership skills gap
An article about the Evangelical Alliance's human resources survey
We need more than laws
Joel Edwards looks at the need for something more than laws: Respect