Yesterday was Shrove Tuesday (now generically labelled Pancake Tuesday). Which leads us into the season some Christians observe as Lent. Look it up somewhere to find the details. The evangelical wing of the Church (us) seems to be developing a growing fascination with practices which our forefathers (and foremothers) had the good sense to realise …

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Sandy Grant reminds us of this pivotal moment in world Gospel work. …this Sunday … 200 years ago today, Adoniram and Ann Judson sailed from Massachusetts, on February 19, 1812, apparently the first Protestant American missionaries to travel overseas. … The Judsons became pioneers in Buddhist Burma, a nation of tyrants and no freedom of …

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