In Depth:  Brian Edwards

Today, there are more 80-year-olds than 18-year-olds in our nation. By 2020 5% of the population will be over 80.

A couple of decades ago the St. Paul’s Methodist Seminary in Kansas established a professorship in gerontology — the study of old age. The reason for this was that some students found themselves pastoring churches where 100% of the congregation are over 65.

What did Paul mean when he wrote that Christ was 'delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification' (Romans 4.25)?

Since the time of the Reformation at least, there has been general agreement among evangelical Christians that justification refers to the declaration by God that, by the sin-bearing death and life-giving resurrection of Christ, the sinner is no longer guilty in God's sight.

The age of OHPs and data projection is not just here to stay, it is here to be improved and expanded.

For this reason most hymn books offer their words on CD as well, and in many churches the hard copies are stacked in a dark cupboard somewhere out of sight. But why has the hymn book gone out of fashion?

Between them, Graham and Tessa can log over 100 years of experience of life from a wheelchair!

In that time they have overcome most of the obstacles to living a meaningful life. Their dogged determination and their keen sense of humour have turned what could have been disaster into a story of the triumph of faith over adversity. Brian Edwards, who was their pastor for 15 years, tells their story.

Are you feeling a failure as the new year starts?

2,000 years after the Pharisees muttered against their Messiah, the religious world is at it again.

Elizabeth Fiorenza in her book Jesus: Miriam's and Sophia's Prophet Child enlists Jesus as her champion against male domination, while Barbara Thierring unlocks the secrets of Jesus' life and discovers that he is a wicked priest of Qumram! Martin Smith writes about Jesus the Magician - the title says it all. But the real headline-snatcher is Dr. Robert Funk's - The Five Gospels, and his search for the authentic words of Jesus.