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What kind of nation?
Ahead of the independence referendum in 2014 the Evangelical Alliance Scotland launched a manifesto entitled What Kind of Nation? comprising 38 recommendations covering the four pillars of Scottish society – the economy, the family, civil society and the environment. A ruthless commitment to the…
Five steps to becoming a public leader-friendly church
Here are five easy steps to becoming a become a public leader-friendly church. See the need We have a crisis of leadership in our country. Politicians, journalists, bankers filmmakers and more have all seen their integrity lost, their trustworthiness doubted and their leadership undermined. We…
Abi Jarvis
Abigail’s Court: “We try to reach them before it’s too late”
British Nigerian Stella Jackson, leader of the team of volunteers who make the work of Abigail’s Court possible, invited the Evangelical Alliance, of which Jesus House is a member, to its annual Celebrating Life event that took place on Saturday, 21 July. It was my pleasure to honour the…
Naomi Osinnowo
Leading in the community – the role of magistrates
Ian Rawley is the senior pastor of New Life Church, Cambridge. As well as leading his local church, he travels extensively around the world, helping church leaders and encouraging churches. He is also involved in humanitarian work, especially in the global south. Ian has served in various roles as…
Abi Jarvis
Statement in response to abortion referendum in Ireland
David Smyth, public policy officer at the Evangelical Alliance in Northern Ireland said: "Today many will mourn the loss of a vital protection for women and their unborn children from the Irish constitution."There are very strong feelings on all sides and we want to commend all those who advocated…
Audio Bibles are reaching the unreached across the globe
A simple device called the Navigator is revolutionising mission work in some of the remote and hardest-to-reach places on earth. Leading The Way has distributed more than 120,000 of these solar-powered audio Bibles in dozens of languages. For each device distributed, roughly 10 people have the…
Peter Wooding
Remembrance 100: 100 days of prayer
Churches around the country will start 100 days of prayer, peace and reconciliation on Saturday, 4 August as part of Remembrance 100, which has been launched to mark the centenary of the end of World War I. To help participants be most effective during this period, which leads up to 11 November,…
Naomi Osinnowo
Embryo editing: a societal problem?
This week the Nuffield Council on Bioethics published a report entitled 'Genome editing and human reproduction', where it set out to answer the question: why might heritable human genome editing be understood as a valuable and worthwhile response to a societal problem? The conclusion it reached was…
Berlind Fellermeier
Southgate and Trump: leadership in an age of extremes
England's football manager Gareth Southgate will don his waistcoat one more time in this World Cup when England take to the stage against Belgium on Saturday to decide who comes third at the World Cup. It's not the finale he would have wanted and as performances exceeded expectations, not the one…
Danny Webster
Ten podcasts for public leaders
Cultural intelligence Q Podcast Q, a website of videos and articles, was birthed out of Gabe Lyons’ vision to see Christians, especially leaders, recover a vision for their historic responsibility to renew and restore cultures. The podcast (qpodcast.libsyn.com) covers a large subject-base…
Abi Jarvis
Local community transformation
This personal profile plan has been developed for those looking to increase their footprint in their local community and become a ‘go to’ voice on a local issue. This might involve launching a new community service, campaigning on an issue, or becoming a media spokesperson. The plan can be used by…
Abi Jarvis
Girls’ Brigade Ministries: here’s to another 125 years of mission
To mark the 125th anniversary of Girls’ Brigade Ministries, Naomi Osinnowo, editorial content manager at the Evangelical Alliance, caught up with Catherine Burt, media coordinator and group leader, to talk about the the charity’s past, present and future. This year, Girls’ Brigade Ministries (GB)…
Naomi Osinnowo
Lighting up the darkness with Compassion UK
When the sun sets in some of Nairobi’s slums, family life stops. No more cooking, cleaning, homework or playing till morning. Without electricity, it’s almost impossible to carry on after dark. Those hours of darkness matter, for a family to be productive and work themselves out of poverty.…
Andy Haddow
Refuel 2018 was a success. Bring on 2019!
“Then sings my soul, my saviour God to thee, how great thou art, how great thou art.” This was the first hymn that was sung at the opening of Refuel 18, and the voices of more than 800 people glorifying God together certainly set the tone for what was to come over the course of the week. The…
Andrea Carvalho
Connect4Life: The Age of Enlightenment
Connect4Life (C4L) exists to help churches, leaders and Christians share the gospel in a contemporary way for free with no restrictions or borders. All the resources carry the message that ‘connection brings life’ – this is for those who are disconnected or unconnected. As well as The Age of…
