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Multiculturalism

Worship In A Cinema With 36 Nationalities This Sunday In London

April 29, 2009

This Sunday will be one of the highlights of our year at Jubilee. It is our international day and annual giving day. We are expecting large crowds as we dress in clothes from more than 36 nations, worship together, and then eat food from around the world.
If you live near London and would like to [...]

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Video – Tope Koleoso On Alcohol And Other Dilemmas

March 24, 2009

Following on just a couple of weeks from his sermon on sex, Tope preached on another controversial matter. This is a subject where many Christians take very different views from each other.   I think that whether you agree with Tope or not you will, find the sermon of great  interest. If nothing else it [...]

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Should Christians Circumcise Their Sons?

December 4, 2008

This is the third part in my short series on multiculturalism. The first two in the series can be found here:

Multiculturalism—You Are What You Eat?
Does Multiculturalism Mean I Have To Eat Blood?

When you mix with a number of different nationalities, you begin to realize that cultural differences are more complicated than you appreciated. They can [...]

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Now It Is Time To Pray for President Obama

November 5, 2008

Much of the world is rejoicing today. Even with the profound differences Christians have with Obama over abortion, surely we can still rejoice that in a nation where slavery and segregation are not too distant memories, a non-Caucasian will be in the White House.
We can and we should be glad that this change may well [...]

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Does Multiculturalism Mean I Have To Eat Blood?

September 16, 2008

In the first of my series on multiculturalism, I spoke about eating whatever is set before us. Today I want to talk about one thing that, so far in my life, I have never managed to bring myself to eat. It is a good example perhaps of how some cultural values are so deeply entrenched [...]

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Multiculturalism – You Are What You Eat?

September 10, 2008

I thought I would do a short series of posts looking at some of the practical implications of thinking in a multicultural way within the context of a Christian worldview. There is probably nothing more firmly embedded in our cultural identities than what we choose to eat. If you are English of a certain age, [...]

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TOAM08 VIDEO INTERVIEW – John KpiKpi, Part 4

August 11, 2008

In this segment of my conversation with John KpiKpi, I asked him about his experiences doing church planting in Africa:

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TOAM08 VIDEO INTERVIEW – John KpiKpi, Part 3

August 10, 2008

John KpiKpi and I continue our discussion of multiculturalism.

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TOAM08 VIDEO INTERVIEW – John KpiKpi, Part 2

August 9, 2008

In this second part of my interview with John KpiKpi, I asked him about multiculturalism.

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VIDEO INTERVIEW – Mark Driscoll, Part 4 – Multiculturalism and Mission

July 19, 2008

Today I conclude my interview with Mark Driscoll. You can download the audio of the whole interview and watch the final segment below. The three previous segments can be viewed at the following pages:

Video Interview – Mark Driscoll, Part 1 – Prophecy and Newfrontiers
Video Interview – Mark Driscoll, Part 2 – A Prophecy for Newfrontiers [...]

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VIDEO INTERVIEW – Mark Driscoll, Part 3 – Impressions of the UK

July 18, 2008

I continue my interview talking about Driscoll’s impressions of the UK.

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Jubilee Church International Day

May 18, 2008

Today is one of the highlights in our church calendar. Once every year we celebrate our diversity by dressing up in national costumes of the many countries we represent as a congregation. There were 25 countries represented in a feature when each of them came up to the front in typical dress, to the sound [...]

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MP3 On Multicultural Churches and Other Sermons by Tope Koleoso

April 3, 2008

I have just been listening to a message by my pastor, Tope Koleoso, who was recorded at a recent conference on building a multicultural church. I have become so used to what God has been doing these past couple of years at Jubilee that I sometimes need to remind myself that genuinely racially integrated churches [...]

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How to Build Multicultural Churches

March 16, 2008

Thankfully, many people today seem to have moved on from the ideas of the “homogenous church growth principle.” I never could see how that whole idea wasn’t just a thinly veiled form of racism, or at the very least, an accommodation with the racism of others. I think I would prefer to be a part [...]

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