These 80 or so prayers were written principally for cathedral evensong, i.e. public worship, but are equally appropriate for private meditation. They are often powerful, thought-ful, ‘lean’ and not rambling, and some include a verse from Scripture. They are divided into two sections: prayers of a... (more)

On 8 March 1941, a 27-year-old Dutch Jewish student living in enemy-occupied Amsterdam made the first entry in a diary that was to become one of the most remarkable documents to emerge from the Nazi Holocaust. Over the course of the next two and a half years, an insecure, chaotic and troubled young ... (more)

Early Pentecostals proclaimed the restoration of the charismatic gifts as a sign of the imminent coming of Christ. This eschatology was later marginalized by the rise of fundamentalist dispensationalism. Today Pentecostal eschatology is being revised to include a more transformative view of the king... (more)