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What is the War Cry? The Salvation Army first published a newspaper called the War Cry in London in December 1879, and we have continued to appear every week since then. Our name refers to our battle for people’s hearts and souls as we promote the positive impact of the Christian faith and The Salvation Army’s fight for greater social justice.
WAR CRY Issue No 7633
Editor: Andrew Stone, Major Deputy Editor: Philip Halcrow Production Editor: Ivan Radford Assistant Editor: Sarah Olowofoyeku Staff Writer: Emily Bright Staff Writer: Claire Brine Editorial Assistant: Linda McTurk Graphic Designer: Rodney Kingston Graphic Designer: Mark Knight
From the editor’s desk LAST week newspapers reported that Apple CEO Tim Cook joked at a press conference that he thought he spotted an iPhone in a 17th-century painting by Pieter de Hooch. However, the name of the painting – Man Handing a Letter to a Woman in the Entrance Hall of a House – suggested that it was the earlier form of communication that the man was holding and that people could enjoy the picture knowing it was historically accurate. Historical accuracy is important for two people who speak to us in this week’s War Cry. On the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush to Britain, Richard Reddie tells us about the people from Caribbean countries who were looking to start a new life in the ‘mother country’. Many of them, though, did not receive a warm welcome, as Richard knows from his own family’s experience. ‘I remember my mum saying that they just couldn’t get a house anywhere,’ he says. ‘People wouldn’t sell them their houses because it would be a case of “There goes the neighbourhood”.’ Sadly, these new arrivals weren’t welcomed in all churches either. In another interview this week, film producer Jon Erwin tells us about his latest release, Jesus Revolution, which depicts a Christian revival amongst hippies in California in the late 1960s and early ’70s. The film portrays the tensions that existed between the newly converted hippies and the established church congregations. ‘The response to hippies was, “Take a bath, cut your hair, get a job and then maybe you can come to church,”’ Jon says, before telling us how one pastor ‘threw his doors open to a group that he didn’t understand’. His welcoming church, Jon says, ‘was where God was moving’. The film is a reminder that the message of Christianity is that people are accepted, loved and valued by God, whoever they are and whatever their history.
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