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Public policy: the year in review
Our country continues in a state of political uncertainty over the Brexit negotiations, and few people are confident about what the New Year will bring. Meanwhile, the Government has consulted on a range of proposals which could have a great impact on churches and on civil society. Throughout this…
Meeting Jesus at the dinner table
When we read the gospels, it soon becomes clear that Jesus intentionally allocated time to eat with people, and that these meals were about far more than just food. We see Him eat with His disciples at the last supper, instituting the new covenant, and with the multitudes at the feeding of the…
Manoj Raithatha
A broken education system
What does TLG do? Our team of trained church-based volunteers carry Jesus into the lives of children who struggle with school owing to the tough circumstances they face. The common scenario we come across is the breakdown of family life: mum and dad no longer living in the same house. The impact on…
Naomi Osinnowo
Rescue and set free
There was a sense of awe in the room, both by the amount of work still to do in this area and by what these various organisations manage to achieve. Perhaps the most powerful part of the conference was the testimony of two men whose lives had been transformed by the work of Lighthouse Yorkshire.…
John Coleby
Praying for our leaders
Join with us as we pray for our political leaders and civil servants as they navigate the course to our future relationship with the EU. "I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people – for kings and all those in authority, that we may…
John Coleby
Joint letter calls on Christians to take part in the Week of Prayer
The letter, whose signatories include Archbishop Justin Welby, Cardinal Archbishop Vincent Nichols, the Rev Michaela Youngson, His Eminence Archbishop Angaelos, and Pastor Agu Irukwu, invites Christians to participate in this call to prayer with the “utmost seriousness”.The letter’s central message…
Kemi Bamgbose
NOW CLOSED: Respond to a consultation on defining extremism
This consultation closed on Thursday, 31 January 2019. We’re here to help you to have your say on these vital issues. Last year, the Government established a Commission for Countering Extremism which was tasked with defining ‘extremism’ and proposing responses to it. Now the Commission wants to…
Government’s anti-persecution inquiry launched
At yesterday’s launch event at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Hunt said: “We wanted to do this not just because freedom of worship is a fundamental human right, but also because freedom of worship is the invisible line between open societies and closed societies. “Where freedom of worship is…
Danny Webster
Bigots no more
Understandably, this left many of our members worried that they, as people of faith, were being accused of being hateful, rather than being protected from hate crime. We had a number of members approach us concerned that, as evangelical Christians, we are not welcome in Scotland. This was…
The church is the hope for a hurting generation
These days, I barely go a day without checking news sites or current affairs and sports finding me as I thumb through social media feeds. And as the flickering pixels hit my eyes, there are some stories that make me laugh, some that make me feel warm inside, and others that provoke nothing more…
Phil Knox
Prayer amid political disagreement
Some would say that the road to unity is apathy; if our political, or indeed theological, differences are trivial, then working together is easy. But this is an unreal response to the real world: cheap unity like cheap grace. Significant political decisions have a real impact, particularly on the…
John Coleby
SENT: How one group got on with SENT
We started each evening with a meal, which made an excellent icebreaker for the group. We were made up of a wide range of ages, from some in their late twenties to others in their early seventies, and covering a variety of abilities and skills. We thought the material was very well produced. Each…
NOW CLOSED: Hate crime consultation: respond to the Scottish Government
No one wants to live in a society which tolerates malicious speech or harassment, but nor do we want legislation that brands reasonable discussion or criticism of other views as “hate”. In a survey of Evangelicals in the UK, we found that 84 per cent of respondents believe that freedom of speech…
Love. Go. Teach.
In the mid-1990s I got a job with Evangelical Alliance member Scripture Union in Birmingham as a schools’ worker and I started to meet many Muslim young people. I didn’t feel a sense of great calling to work amongst Muslims; I found myself having to relate to the Muslim pupils I was meeting. For…
Dr Andrew Smith
