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What kind of church? accompanying videos
Fred Drummond introduces each of the sessions with an accompanying film. Watch them all here.
Truly heartbreaking: plights of the persecuted church
In the time of Paul’s ministry, there was disharmony and opposition coming from all sides. So, Paul’s primary reason for visiting the churches he founded and writing to believers was to remind them of what Jesus said, of who they were made to be, and to urge them to love and look out for each…
Emily Jolie
Mental health: The church needs to talk about mental health
So, as Joanna Sopylo-Firrisa finds out in this interview, Lade set up The NOUS Organisation in 2015 to raise much-needed awareness of mental health conditions and the steps those who are struggling with their mental health can take to prevent conditions getting worse, aid recovery or avoid a…
Joanna Sopylo-Firrisa
Dying for my identity
Many of the people we work with find their faith in Jesus to be a comfort in the face of such intense danger, committing their suffering to God and drawing on promises such as that of 1 Peter 4:14: “If you are insulted because of the name of Christ, you are blessed, for the Spirit of glory and of…
Olivia Watkinson
God’s kind of church
From a national perspective, secularisation is rapidly sweeping across society and more and more people identify with non-religious values and institutions. Add to this, the church in Scotland, and the rest of the UK for that matter, tends to be defined by what it prohibits rather than the love it…
Ian Gall
Reclaiming the holistic view of human identity in Christ
All I felt was good and to be affirmed. I was content to be Sisyphus pushing the boulder up the proverbial hill of western secularism. When I became a Christian in a pub after a radical love-encounter with God, I did not have the luxury to absent myself from the question of identity. I wasn’t able…
David Bennett
Far above politics
I’ve worked in parliament and politics for long enough to know that we should believe political pundits and experts when they declare that they have no idea what is coming next. Gone are the days of confident predictions and clear trajectories of political movement; we live in an environment with…
Danny Webster
Spoiler alert... Jesus wins
Caleb is growing up in an age when entertainment is instant. He cannot fathom a time when there were four TV channels, a few hours of children’s TV a day, and ‘on demand’ viewing consisted of putting a black box full of tape into a machine and listening to it whir as it wound to the start of the…
Phil Knox
Will you join me in prayer for Nigerian political leaders?
Today, good governance and responsive leadership ensure that we all enjoy the dividends of democracy and freedom. Democracy, which connotes majority rule (the candidate with the majority of votes at an election wins the election), carries with it the responsibility of protection of minority groups…
Government proposals set to resurrect state-backed register of church activities, says Evangelical Alliance
The Evangelical Alliance, a UK wide Christian group, are calling for the government to abandon proposals to regulate out-of-school settings across England. The government is currently consulting on proposals around home education and out-of-school education settings, which are marred by ambiguity…
Heading to the hills?
After a frenzied campaigning period, polling day itself is rather strange. Generally, electoral rules prohibit broadcasters and other media outlets from reporting on an election campaign or predictions until the polls close. Our plethora of political pundits, who are used to making predictions and…
John Coleby
Church comms improvement project
Do you ever walk past a church notice board that makes you want to weep? Have you looked for a local church online and found its website impossible to navigate or non-existent? Have you had an offensively ugly flyer through your door inviting you to a church event and wished such an important…
Jo Swinney
Renewal Christian Centre, Solihull: new leader, renewed mission
This led to a series of encounters, including getting caught on the school’s CCTV praying around the grounds at midnight, witnessing to sports teams in local pubs, and spending all his waking hours reading the Bible. Jonny’s love for people, sport, reading and travel always taught him to enjoy the…
Naomi Osinnowo
Compassion UK: campaigns that change lives
After David Lammy MP lambasted Comic Relief this year for continuously using “tired, unhelpful tropes” in its fundraising for African communities, the London-based politician renewed his plea for fresh imagery that celebrates the progress made within the continent, rather than marketing collateral…
Joanna Sopylo-Firrisa
D-Day: preparing the way
What my grandad didn’t know was that his older brother, Ron, had been on the MMS28 in the preceding days, sweeping through those very same waters to check for Nazi minefields. Having had little to no contact during the war, the brothers couldn’t have known each other’s whereabouts, but as…
Eve Paterson
