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Intergenerational church: let’s show the world how it’s done
Danny Webster is advocacy and media manager at the Evangelical Alliance.This week the Intergenerational Commission published its full report into fairness between different generations. Most publicised was the organisation's proposal to grant every 25-year-old a 'citizen's inheritance' of £10,000,…
Danny Webster
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
Paula Gooder's Phoebe: let your imagination run loose
Being a firm believer in the Holy Spirit's ability, and assignment, to unpack God's word in order to help my heart grasp His will and purpose, I had a few reservations about Christian fiction. I wondered, how could fiction help me better engage with the Bible and God? Not only did Paula help me to…
Naomi Osinnowo
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
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
One year on: mourn with those who mourn
I can only imagine how the survivors and family members of victims from the Manchester Arena must feel this week as they marked the first anniversary of the devastating attack that claimed the lives of 22 victims last year. Watching some of the short videos from the BBC, covering the events in…
Abi Jarvis
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,…
One Way UK
Puppets are a proven fun and effective method of communicating the gospel to both children and adults. One Way UK provides the highest quality training across the country and supply a wide range of resources to churches and groups for using both inside the church and out in the community. "The…
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…
What is an evangelical?
Evangelicals are passionate about God, about the church and about the Bible. Evangelicals have decided to live their lives with Jesus – the Saviour of the world and Son of God – at the centre. Evangelicals humbly and lovingly believe that the best thing for our families, friends, neighbours, nation…
Serve Scotland: MSPs commend work of faith groups in Scotland
Kate Forbes MSP has commended the work of church organisations and faith groups in a debate at Holyrood. MSPs heard that volunteers are giving almost £100m in time and resources each year to social action projects across Scotland. An exhibition on the work of Serve Scotland will run at Holyrood for…
Alexandra Davis
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…
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