2021 / 2022

Jan 6, 2022 by Andrew Symes

Reviews of 2021, Looking Forward to 2022

What kinds of resolutions bring real change? by Ian Paul, Psephizo:
Some suggestions on how to improve our lives in 2022, including bible reading, diet and physical fitness.

Some articles on resolutions for preaching by Stephen Kneale:
Aim to make yourself understood.

If the Lord really has things to say to us today, make sure you tell people what they are [ie, don’t just “explain the passage”].

Keep preaching and expect different results.

David Virtue’s top 10 Anglican stories, from VirtueOnline.
Includes Bishop Bill Love leaving TEC, Michael Nazir Ali defecting to Rome, and the Archbishop of York’s prediction of a ‘grand operatic death’ for the C of E. But the future is not lost: “The fields are white unto harvest… GAFCON will slowly replace the Lambeth Conference as Western Anglicanism moves steadily towards extinction. The future of Anglicanism is the Global South not the dissolute West.”

2021 was the ‘most violent year’ for India’s Christians, from Christian Today

2021 CI News Review of the Year, from The Christian Institute

The A to Z of Christian news in 2021, from Premier: Here are some of the biggest Christian stories that happened during 2021: A is for Sir David Amess…F for Freedom of Speech…T is for patan Tash…W is for Wilberforce Academy…

Five ways Christians could make 2022 a better year for the media, by Peter Crumpler, Christian Today

2021 in numbers, from Premier

The year Stonewall lost its halo
by Jo Bartosch, spiked: This once-mighty gay-rights charity has sacrificed its reputation on the altar of trans.