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The Alpha Course: British Christianity's Biggest Success Story?

April 17, 2013

The Alpha Course: British Christianity’s biggest success story [Excerpts] The British newspaper The Independent has an article by Matthew Bell on the Alpha Course, which it describes, interestingly, as “British Christianity’s biggest success story.” Being the Independent, and standing at the far distant extreme of secularism, there are some inevitable...Read more

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