Who Is My Neighbour?

by | Apr 15, 2018 | What's Happening

John Ortberg has written a book called ‘I’d Like You More If You Were More Like Me’, a sentiment that is probably more true than we often care to admit… We all feel safe loving people who are like us because we understand them. We make...

Xenophilia – practical love, risky love

by | Apr 15, 2018 | What's Happening

The love that God wants us to show towards all people is essentially practical (see 1 Jn 3:16-18). It involves practical help: offering food, clothing, and any other practical help that is needed. Loneliness is endemic in our country, even within the church, but God...

X is for Xenophilia

by | Apr 15, 2018 | What's Happening

X is not the most popular letter in the English alphabet, and so in our series The A-Z of Christian Faith, looking at the essential ingredients needed in a life of faith, we had to borrow a word from Greek: xenophilia, derived from two words (xenos, a stranger or...