Letter from America
Trumped
Josh Moody
Date posted: 1 Dec 2016
I am a ‘legal alien’, I carry a Green Card and all our children have been born here, but I cannot vote in America.
With that in mind and also being a pastor, it is inimical, unwise, and probably unedifying for me to talk about party politics.
Letter from America
Under-appreciated virtue
Josh Moody
Date posted: 1 Nov 2016
Suicide is second only to
accidents as the leading
cause of death among
adolescents.
This according to the journal Pediatrics, and
Internet use exceeding five hours a day has
been linked to suicide and depressive thoughts.
Letter from America
Exciting times
Josh Moody
Date posted: 1 Oct 2016
It’s common place.
Rarely a day goes by without someone commentating on the declining religious interest of the upcoming millennial generation. Much is debated: Are the statistics reliable? Do they reveal a decline in vital faith, or do they expose a dying religious nominalism being replaced by vital evangelical Christianity? Most perti-nently, what (if anything) do we need to do about it? Well, at God Centered Life Ministries, we are excited to call a new generation to centre their lives upon God.
Letter from America
Righteousness exalts a nation
Josh Moody
Date posted: 1 May 2016
Are you familiar with the story related to American self-awareness historically?
It’s about the Pilgrims, the Founding Fathers, manifest destiny, etc. If so you will know that there has long been a sense of ‘exceptionalism’ in America regarding its disproportionate blessings, as well as responsibilities to the rest of the world. The Puritans thought of it as a ‘city on a hill’, taking of course cue from Jesus’ language to that regard, Matthew 5.14.
Letter from America
Maturity and gospel centre
Josh Moody
Date posted: 1 Apr 2016
I’m a big fan of the gospel.
No secret there – it’s all over everything
I’ve done. I’ve said time and time again that
the gospel is not just the ABC, it is the A–Z
of the Christian faith. What, however, does
that mean with relation to Christian spiritual growth or ‘maturity’? How do we encourage growing up and growing deep and
becoming more like Christ?
Letter from America
Cultural engagement
Josh Moody
Date posted: 1 Mar 2016
It used to be simple.
Or at least it looks like that in hindsight. America was founded on, broadly speaking, Judeo-Christian lines. The framers of the Constitution may well not have all been ‘evangelicals’ but they were all influenced by the King James Bible, as well as by the thinking on ‘freedom’ that grew out of John Locke and other Enlightenment tolerance proponents that, while in some cases certainly radical (the French Revolution), were themselves also operating within or reacting to the same basic set of principles and assumptions.
Letter from America
The gospel and race
Josh Moody
Date posted: 1 Feb 2016
It would take an ostrich to not be aware that the issue of race has been prominent in recent months in America.
The matter of race has been one that has troubled humanity itself down through the eons. Obviously, the ante-bellum slavery has left its own nefarious trail of dehumanisation, bitterness, and defensiveness, and at the same time other racial/racist attitudes pervade other cultures too.
Letter from America
Reading the Bible – radical!
Josh Moody
Date posted: 1 Jan 2016
In my prized possession is
a letter from John Stott.
He was replying to say that he supported
me, as the new President of the Cambridge
Inter-Collegiate Christian Union,
in my
desire to revitalise the daily Bible reading
and prayer life of the Union. Hardly radical
stuff. Or is it?
Letter from America
How should Christians vote?
Josh Moody
Date posted: 1 Jun 2016
Many Christians at election season scratch their head and wonder exactly what sort of principles are to guide them as they face the ballot box.
This is particularly true at this election season, not only in the UK with 'Brexit' but also in America as citizens here begin to face up to the likely options that they will have on the table. What does it mean for a Christian to vote his or her conscience? What sort of guidelines can be given regarding voting that do not stray over the line of partisanship?