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(in previous A5 36 page format)
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Mark the Rural Evangelist
A Puckring Kosh to Nowhere
Has the Church Lost its Way
The Eden Project
Computer Usage
After the March
Does God speak Circumstantially?
Creation and Recreation
Hope for the Rural
Global/Local:Another Way
Lost Icons
The Curry Commission on Farming and Food - see web links
Rural Resurrection?
Rural Churches in the Red
Church Buildings: Thinking the Unthinkable
Seasonal Worship in the Countryside7
Livestock Ethics
The Theme was RURAL AND URBAN: A RELATIONSHIP OF INTERDEPENDENCE. Articles among others look at villages facing the impact of new town development; Town and Country Community - Reality v. Illusion?; The pull of the countryside for Townies and a Theology of Nimbyism
Farming and the Future is a current topic at this time. Articles in this issue also look at 'Genoa and all that', 'Agriculture and Agritheology' and an article on the lukewarm church of Laodicea. There are the usual regular contributors, 'Cope's Comment' and 'Around the Groups'. See also what 'Farmers, Pharisees and Taxcollectors' have in common.
'God's values for Today's Farming' - farming in the light of the Foot and Mouth crisis. Articles on 'Exile Migration and Asylum - Where is the Church?' - 'Is the rural church in exile?' A follow up to God and Science (March) - 'Scientism, Paganism - and Science'. Also 'Rural life and the Church in Ethiopia' and the usual regular items.
'Good News for Farming?' 'New ideas for rural farming' 'How inclusive is my valley' - a theological response to the White Paper; 'God, science and the return of the nature gods' and further articles and reviews on patterns of ministry.
Old Rural Buildings
Local Ministry
Seasonal Workshop
Arthur Rank Centre
Theology + Science
A Green + Pleasant Land
Is Rural Ministry Possible in AD 2000
Agriculture + Stress
Response to Community pressures
Wretched Corinthians
Hierarchy + grass roots
Beyond Creation Theology
Rural Rivalry + Reconciliation
Rural Theology of Liberation
Archbp McAdoo
Town + Country
Call of the 4988
Rural evangelism
Celtic Spirituality