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Rebuilding Leadership: Building healthy leadership
On Tuesday, 20 April at 7pm, the Evangelical Alliance will be hosting a conversation on growing healthy practices. This session will focus on the challenges of building personal character and healthy rhythms during the current season. We will also cover how to build strong spiritual disciplines for…
Northern Ireland: Abortion amendment bill passes second stage
In Northern Ireland abortion is permitted up to 12 weeks for any or no stated reason, up to 24 weeks for a threat to the mental health of the woman, and up to birth for ‘severe fetal impairment’. This bill seeks to repeal the part of the law which currently allows for abortion on the ground of…
David Smyth
Rebuilding Leadership Webinar: Leading beyond the storm
On Tuesday, 30 March at 7pm, the Evangelical Alliance will be hosting a conversation on leading beyond the storm with Andrew Lynas and Martyn Link. The webinar will focus on the challenges of both leading and rebuilding amid uncertainty and chaos, looking specifically at Brexit, the pandemic and…
Scotland lockdown latest: What restrictions are lifting and when?
Outdoor youth work activities for under 18’s, with a maximum of 15 individuals (including two facilitators) can resume, this should be restricted to your locality and have the appropriate social distancing measures in place. Outdoor parent and toddler groups for children age five and under can also…
What kind of follower?
In this uncharted season, one of the many issues we all face is how we follow Jesus well and encourage others to do the same. What kind of follower? a reflective, easy-to-follow study guide to inspire every believer to have the space for honest conversations about walking with Jesus and help…
Moving beyond the bandstand: a conversation about violence against women
“Will the ripples move us beyond the bandstand?” we ask, in a conversation addressing the recent headlines highlighting violence against women, and what the church can do to speak into and change culture. The abduction and murder of Sarah Everard sent shockwaves through the community of Clapham and…
Exclusion in the name of inclusion
“We don’t do God” as Alistair Campbell put it was for several years the go-to reference point for any such discussion. Then Tim Farron resigned as leader of the Liberal Democrats because he felt unable to reconcile his faith with leading the party. And now, Sir Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour…
Danny Webster
Job Creation Project: Matt Bird on entrepreneurship and what it means to be made in the likeness of a creative God
“Some of those things are explicitly Christian; some of those have Christian values embedded in them,” he explains. It is through starting businesses and creating jobs that Matt believes the UK will re-emerge from the unemployment crisis it now faces. Matt on his businesses Matt runs a business…
Jo Evans
Creative ministry: A gateway to the gospel
They’ve also produced regular broadcasts on BBC and RTE TV and Radio, often producing scripts for services as well as music. 'Patrick', the most recent of NIA’s concerts, was an evening of music and stories to celebrate Ireland’s patron saint, livestreamed from Belfast Cathedral. I spoke to…
Helen Locke
NOW CLOSED: Responding to the New Plan for Immigration
The majority of the plan includes reforms for the refugee and asylum system, aiming to simplify claims and appeals, enable greater punishment for criminals and remove legal anomalies. There has been significant backlash against the plan, and the Evangelical Alliance shares concerns that it would…
A small step towards justice
Media attention over the Xinjiang detention camps has increased since the pandemic as the scale of abuse has worsened. More information has been uncovered over the treatment of the Uyghur people and other ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang. Reports of torture, rape, sexual abuse, forced…
With God in the storm, and after
But away from emergency and critical care other stories unfold. We remember patients, not just with COVID-19, fighting illness and disability on the wards, alone, struggling with imposed isolation, just when they needed the love of their families most. We have watched them suffer alone and die…
Prof Steve Sturman
“Micah doesn’t have the God-stamp”
“Micah can’t create anything, he just destroys it, he can’t figure hard things out and he can’t make friends with anyone – why can’t Micah come to church with us any more, because he doesn’t have the God-stamp?” The following day as I succumbed to the back-to-school social media photo streaming,…
Donna Jennings
Job Creation Project: Catalyse Change co-founder talks “releasing kingdom potential” in business
Rich: "Catalyse Change has been set up to release 'kingdom potential'" At the heart of Catalyse Change and CREO, the charity's initiative for entrepreneurs, is the belief that God’s people are to embody and extend God’s kingdom now as in heaven, wherever God has placed them. Rich says, “That might…
Jo Evans
Line of Duty: being human between blurred lines
Mercurio’s stroke of genius is how he seamlessly stitches fact into fiction, with closing clips on each character’s future fate and references to real life crime scandals. And, in how we permitted a viral hysteria around the fictional “H” to dominate news headlines and social media over the past…
Donna Jennings
