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Most Charities Don't Know A Philanthropist - Tax Avoider Or Not

Posted 02 May 2012

Surplus wealth,’ said steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, ‘is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime, for the good of the community.’

In the early part of the last century, Carnegie gave away enough of his vast fortune to underwrite 3,000 public libraries, a cluster of research institutes, colleges and concert halls and even an estimated 7,000 church organs.

Carnegie was, of course, an American. Yet his brand of philanthropy wouldn’t go astray in today’s Britain, especially given... Click for more

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Resurrection: You're the Evidence

17 May 2012

In the earliest Christian art, some of the most common pictures of Jesus involved his miracles. Even Josephus, the first century Jewish historian and no friend of the Christian cause, recorded in his famous ?Antiquities' that Jesus was a ?wise man' who performed ?astonishing feats'. The Greek word he used there is ?paradoxon', which he also used in other places to denote miracles. Even those who... Click for more

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"Contemporary Church" Will Not Survive Without Strategic Leadership

Why Aspirational Leadership is not Enough

In the contemporary church scene today, we see a lot of aspirational leadership, but relatively little strategic leadership. For that reason, we hear a lot about how fast the church is growing overall but see very little evidence of this in terms of cultural change in cities. Aspirational leadership is important because it produces motivation; it provides people with motives for acting in new and more righteous or beneficial ways. It is, however,... Click for more

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