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Alphabiography Project: Totally Ready to react
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Further Reading
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Andrew Atherstone’s latest book, Repackaging Christianity: Alpha and the Building of a Global Brand (Hodder & Stoughton), is newly published. I had the chance to ask him how, as a historian, he approached the project.
IP: Why do you think we need a history of the Alpha course?
AA: Alpha is a phenomenon! In the thirty years since its global launch in 1993, over 28 million people have attended the course worldwide, and its impact upon the Church of England has been enormous. Not only have many come to Christian faith through Alpha, but it has decisively shaped modern evangelistic strategies and theologies. Nicky Gumbel is a Christian leader of global significance and deserves to be studied alongside other major modern evangelists like Billy Graham and Luis Palau. Anyone who wants to understand Anglicanism today, or the relationship between charismatic renewal and contemporary culture, needs to engage seriously with Alpha and its impact.
Repackaging Christianity is published to coincide with Nicky Gumbel handing over the baton as vicar of Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB), after 46 years connected with the congregation. It doubles as a history of the remarkable transformation of HTB since the 1960s, from Prayer Book evensong to charismatic powerhouse, now the centre of
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Dear Brothers: As always I thank you for your kind letters. If you have not heard from me personally it is only that I have about 600 plus emails saved waiting to be answered. You will hear from me either directly or through the historical moment if it is a question that should be shared by all of the readers. I had a great weekend. I was invited to speak at a Scholarship Banquet. My topic "When Something is Wrong with my Neighbor, Something is Wrong with Me." We ought to replace the word neighbor with brother often! That afternoon I
flew to Huntsville, Alabama for the Sunday's Men Day Service. A very special thanks to my beloved brothers for your support, especially the brother who told me he drove all the way from Jackson, Mississippi just to hear me preach. My sermon topic was from Exodus & and 2nd Chronicles. The topic was"A Do Right Man." I examined the disobedience of Moses's nemesis, the Pharaoh of Egypt and Solomon's fall from grace. It was Aretha Franklin who said, "You gotta be a do right, all right man!'" God reminds us to "humble ourselves, pray and seek his face and turn from our wicked ways." Well, the printing presses are turning, cranking out pa