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Continue reading →: The Megachurch View
2004 “A lot of people pray for the big R’ who need to get off their ‘big A”. So said a British megachurch pastor during the sermon on Fri 13 Aug 2004. It seemed a bit harsh. I was attending a megachurch at the time, an independent church which attracted…
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Continue reading →: The Churchgoers’ Perspective
2004 I wasn’t getting very far. I had no home access to the internet so most of my research had to be done the old-fashioned way, at libraries and by actually speaking with people. After my encounter with Michael the whole subject was getting too depressing for me. Back to…
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Continue reading →: A Not-So-Great Falling Away
2004 The idea that Christianity should be fun appealed to me, but I was sure I was just skimming the surface on the whole issue. The story lay fallow and I didn’t research it much until 2004. Before Brexit. Before the pandemic. Before Queen Elizabeth died. Before any talk of…
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Continue reading →: A Muslim Perspective
2000 I began my investigation on revival, fresh out of journalism college by visiting my local library at the start of the millennium. Before the days of google search graphs it was much harder to figure out how interested the general population was in Christianity. I took a… roundabout way…
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Continue reading →: Introduction
“Meanwhile,” said Mr. Tumnus, “it is winter in Narnia, and has been for ever so long, and we shall both catch cold if we stand here talking in the snow…” The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis What if there was a real Christian revival? Not something fake…



