RESPONDblogs: Can the Human Heart Change for the Better?

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I’m preparing to visit sub-Saharan Africa next week. Specifically, I’ll be spending time in both Malawi and Mozambique – two of the world’s poorest countries.

Each time I visit these people – I see an amazing power at work.

It’s a power that self-proclaimed atheist Matthew Parris, who himself grew up in Malawi, describes as the “hopeâ€� of Africa.

“Christians black and white, working in Africa, do heal the sick, do teach people to read and write; and only the severest kind of secularist could see a mission hospital or school and say the world would be better without it.�

   — Matthew Parris, The Times

Amazingly – this power is also detected by British Prime Minister David Cameron – and he sees it at work amongst Christians who live in the UK.

“From Somerset to Surrey, from Oxford to Devon, churches became refuges, offering shelter and food, congregations raised‌

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