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Betting machines curbed in crucial victory for campaigners
This is a significant victory that will help protect people from developing gambling problems, and reduce the impact of gambling losses on vulnerable people. The Evangelical Alliance has long campaigned on this issue, repeatedly calling for the Government to take action, and has today joined with…
Danny Webster
Protecting religious belief and observance in Scottish schools
Last week the SNP MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch Kate Forbes asked the Scottish Government, “what its position is on protecting young people’s right to religious observance, education and freedom of religious belief in schools?” This question was asked after constituents raised concerns with…
Education? Education? Education?
The Government is asking a lot of questions about education at the moment. This includes the consultation on relationships and sex education (see our response and poll results here); the Government’s response to the out-of-schools consultation (see our press release here); the integrated…
Peter Mitchell
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Talking Jesus: game-changing research into perception of Jesus, Christians and evangelism
In September, we published research we had commissioned with the Church of England and HOPE, conducted by Barna Group and ComRes into perceptions of Christ, Christianity and the Church in England. Despite negative media portrayals, most people actually like the Christians they know, while the vast…
Chine McDonald
Speak Up
Speak Up, from the Evangelical Alliance and the Lawyers' Christian Fellowship, is designed to equip and inspire Christians with confidence and knowledge of the current legal freedoms we have to share our faith. The good news of Jesus is something we all have a part in sharing. Through our everyday…
Reaching out to dads
That morning, 20 dads and their children crossed the threshold of our building; only two of them had ever done so before. They came to have fun with their children, to chat to other dads and to eat bacon rolls. Who Let the Dads Out? had begun, and God was prompting a change in church outreach…
Mark Chester
Book review: Phoebe by Paula Gooder
Paula is well known as a New Testament scholar and as a populariser of Christian theology and biblical studies. In Phoebe she adopts a new role as a writer of Christian fiction in an attempt to bring to life some of the characters and situations mentioned in the biblical text.The central character,…
Graham Hedges
Hope into Action
Hope into Action work with rough sleepers, former prisoners, former sex-workers, those in recovery from addictions, refugees, asylum seekers and those released from modern slavery.
A hopeful absence
Richard Powney is theology and evangelism officer at the Evangelical Alliance.For the last week or so many of us have been taking part in Thy Kingdom Come, the prayer movement started by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, Justin Welby and John Sentamu, respectively, in 2016 to encourage…
Richard Powney
Centre for Missionaries from the Majority World
The Centre for Missionaries from the Majority World is a network and training hub that prepares, equips and encourage pastors and missionaries from the majority world in Britain as well as help indigenous British Christians and churches understand Christians from the global south, including Africa,…
Evangelicals and the Reformation - 500 years on
The Reformation, as it arose at the start of the 16th century was not so much an innovation as a recovery – a recovery of the essential content of the 'evangel' or 'good news' of salvation proclaimed by Jesus Christ himself, and by his apostles. For evangelicals the importance of that recovery is…
Together serving Scotland
Around 30 MSPs attended a member’s business debate brought by Kate Forbes MSP to highlight the work of Serve Scotland, a coalition that Evangelical Alliance Scotland helps to facilitate. Serve Scotland brings together Christians who are passionate about social transformation in local communities…
Kieran Turner
Missional Links Wales
With evangelical Christianity in Wales at two per cent of the population of three million, the heady days of the 1904 Revival are long gone. Wales is once again a mission field in extreme need of strategic help and support from outside of its borders. Missional Link Wales exists to encourage…
Report launched to help UK church execute a clear vision
A study has been commissioned by the UK arm of an international charity to help churches set out clear mission goals and methods to address social justice.The UK Church in Action research, which was commissioned by World Vision UK and conducted by Barna Global, surveyed a little over 3,500…
Naomi Osinnowo
