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Summer – a time to take time

by Ken Benjamin | Aug 24, 2018 | Infusing Culture

Just over a hundred years ago, the poet WH Davies wrote about the fact that we miss out in life if we miss out time to stop and look. His most famous poem begins: ‘What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.’ This summer, the current...

Get Rich or Die Young

by Michael Shaw | Aug 10, 2018 | Infusing Culture

On Monday I watched a BBC Panorama documentary on the impact of poverty on life expectancy called Get Rich or Die Young (it’s available on BBC iplayer for a year). The statistics were shocking, they looked at the most dramatic area of the country in terms of life...

Missional Leadership: Hoist Your Sails

by Nigel Coles | Jul 19, 2018 | Inspiring Discipleship

We are in the midst of a crisis of leadership. Whilst I have my own perspectives on Brexit, Trump, North Korea, the EU, Russia, etc, right now I’m particularly concerned about my own Baptist family, although this issue spans all the historic denominations in the UK....

Celebrating 100 Years of Women in Baptist Ministry

by Ruth Whiter | Jul 19, 2018 | Inspiring Discipleship

This article first featured on the WEBA Website, we thought it was such a great reminder of what it looks like to follow in the footsteps of God, that we're reposting it here at Seventy-two for your encouragement: 1918 is the year that a woman, Edith Gates, was first...

Talking Jesus

by The Seventy-two Team | Jul 6, 2018 | Igniting Mission

Here at Seventy-two the scripture which propels our endeavours is Luke 10:1-12, the passage in which Jesus sends out the seventy-two to every town and place where Jesus was about to go. From time to time we like to share with you resources and ideas which we believe...

Every space is a place – even church

by Alex Drew | Jun 29, 2018 | Igniting Mission

There's no denying that third spaces are fantastic places and opportunities to share God's love. I've had the joy of praying for (and with) an atheist at my kitchen table, giving my testimony to a fellow dog walker (he asked!), and sitting with one of God's prodigal...