@PeterCrumpler
My wife and I have just come across your article on Samuel Ryder. I am the minister of Sawbridgeworth Congregational church and on one of our buildings' foundation stones we have his name. We wondered if you knew of a link as we'd like to honour him.
If you were inventing a religion, you wouldn’t have its founder disgraced and comprehensively publicly defeated by the religious and political authorities. There is no explanation of the cross as the centre of Christianity that is as compelling as the possibility that it’s true…
#1 Pure capitalism says all your money belongs to you; #2 pure Marxism says all your money belongs to the State; #3 Christianity says all your money belongs to God (1 Chron 29), and we should be radically generous with it as Jesus was with his riches. (2 Cor 8-9)