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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…
SENT: my tiny role in God's big picture
The workplace can be a tough place to be, often bringing with it demanding bosses, difficult customers and complex career paths. In this mix of success and frustration it can be hard to carve out your own path. So it is that after another exhausting day I slouch into the fading blue train seat and…
Stand up for freedom
The Scottish Government is in the process of developing new hate crime legislation and has asked citizens to respond with their thoughts on what shape these new laws should take. At the Evangelical Alliance, we believe that malicious crime is abhorrent, and we want to ensure that the law…
Kieran Turner
Book review: It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way
The theme of the book is living with disappointments and the president of Proverbs 31 Ministries has certainly had more than her fair share in the recent past. In the last few years she has had to come to terms with marital breakdown, serious illness, and treatment for breast cancer. Her book…
Graham Hedges
Disagreeing well
Ever since the garden, as God declared “it is not good”, conflict has been part of our story and has driven us forward. Without opposition, there can be no momentum, no dynamism. God acknowledged the problem of Adam’s loneliness, which led to the creation of Eve, and the diversity of God’s nature…
Jo Frost
We are family
We were there, as some of the leaders of the church in the town, to have fellowship. I’m not sure what that means, but it didn’t seem to really qualify as the biblical definition of being part of the same family on the same mission. There was no major bust up or heated theological arguments; in…
Roger Sutton
The head, not the tail
I love these verses not only because of their focus on justice, mercy and humility, but because they are active, intentional actions that effect our relationships with each other and with God. We are instructed not to simply approve of the theoretical concepts but to embody justice, mercy and…
Abi Jarvis
A force for good
The police force is one section of society that is, perhaps, feeling the heat more than most, as it endeavours to respond to the increasing demands of the people it serves with fewer officers and support staff to share the workload. In a bid to meet the needs of communities in spite of the…
Naomi Osinnowo
CSW: 'We're fighting for religious freedom. Will you join us?'
Following negotiations by the government, the remaining girls were put into vehicles to go home the next month, but as they were about to leave, the kidnappers told Leah, the only Christian, that in order to leave she had to convert. Leah refused. In a moment of extraordinary courage, she decided…
Kiri Kankhwende
Are you up for the 40acts challenge?
In an interview with Naomi Osinnowo, the Evangelical Alliance’s editorial content manager, Kezia Owusu-Yianoma, social media and digital content executive at Stewardship, shares why the drive continues to attract thousands of participants each year, and urges others to get on board. For those who…
Naomi Osinnowo
Parents and education in partnership
As part of this big vision, education helps enable our children to flourish and become those who work for the good of society, and we support schools working in partnership with, and on behalf of, parents to see this vision come about. However, over recent years, we have begun to see a strain on…
Session four: Transforming your context
During this session you'll be thinking about how you can transform your context. Watch or download the accompanying videos of Claire Morgan and James Copeland.
Love and justice after terror
Now, with the movement largely defeated, Begum was discovered by a Times journalist in a refugee camp, pregnant with her third child (having lost two other children during her time in Syria). In an interview with Anthony Lloyd, she said that she wanted to return to the UK. On Tuesday it was…
John Coleby
Secular Lent: an ancient tradition in a modern world
That’s how Guardian columnist Dawn Foster wrote about Lent this week. During Lent Christians have traditionally given up food in forms of fasting, and this has expanded in recent years to the foregoing of many other things. It is also notable how popular this once obscure Christian discipline has…
Danny Webster
Born in the age of the internet
Ronald Reagan was handing over to George H. W. Bush, the UK had its first female Prime Minister, and Trump was hosting the Tour de Trump – America’s response to the Tour de France. We can all recognise that the world has changed dramatically in the last thirty years, and not just politically, and…
Eve Paterson
