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Mental health: Will you stand in the mental health gap?
Fegans is a 149-year-old Christian charity which provides professional children’s counselling and parent support services across London, the South East and Oxfordshire to more than 400 children and families every week. In recent years, Fegans has seen a sharp rise in demand for its services and the…
Ian Soars
Steve Clifford to step down as general director of the Evangelical Alliance after ten years’ service
The Evangelical Alliance has announced that Steve Clifford, its general director, will step down from his role at the end of 2019. Steve has been at the helm of the Evangelical Alliance since April 2009 and over the past decade he has helped the church have confidence in the power of the gospel…
Steve Clifford to step down as general director
Steve has been at the helm of the Evangelical Alliance since April 2009 and over the past decade he has helped the church have confidence in the power of the gospel and develop a clear voice in public life. But, perhaps above all, the Bradford-born Christian leader has brought together the diverse…
Danny Webster
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
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
Finding the ‘missing generation’
If only I were able to tell you that we all had spent the last couple of decades doing just that. Today, I don’t know where most of my peers are at in their walk with Jesus, but I do know there are only a handful of us still going to church. Zoom out from this snapshot and see a wider panorama…
Phil Knox
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
Mental health: Black, Christian and struggling with mental health
The qualified and accredited psychotherapist explains that while mainstream services repeatedly fail to understand the unique needs and outlook of Christians from African and African-Caribbean backgrounds particularly, black-majority churches can often be superstitious about conditions of the mind…
Naomi Osinnowo
Leader of bombed evangelical church in Sri Lanka offers forgiveness to attackers
The leader of the evangelical church bombed in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday has spoken out, offering forgiveness to the attackers, and thanks to all who have offered prayer and support. Pastor Roshan Mahesen also spoke of his commitment to continue the church’s mission. Speaking in…
A tale of two REs
At the same time, the government published its new statutory guidance on these subjects, which covers the content to be taught and stipulates that in secondary schools there will be no right of withdrawal from RE and a now limited right to withdraw (if the headteacher agrees) from sex…
Peter Mitchell
Call to pray for Muslims this Ramadan
Over the years, a growing number of churches around the UK have been welcoming new believers from Muslim backgrounds. A few years back, Dr David Garrison, who has spent much of his life studying the interrelationship of Christianity and Islam, attributed this shift to a combination of factors. He…
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Compassion UK supporter: "Togolese mothers, I stand with you"
In Togo, West Africa, one in every 20 babies will die before their first birthday. This is the equivalent of you going to your local toddler group and knowing that one or two of those babies won't be here in the next year. Just think how shocking that would be. Thankfully, in the UK, it isn't every…
Michelle Pannell
Book review: Leading – The Millennial Way
Using the research and Simon’s extensive leadership experience, the book investigates major traits of millennial leaders and considers how these traits can be considered benefits, rather than the stereotypical negative assumptions often made about them. For example, the authors challenge the idea…
Abi Jarvis
Helen's Headlines
Produced by Helen Calder, Helen's Headlines are short resources with a Christian ethos for anyone involved in leadership of a Christian charity or church, especially smaller ones. With 40 years of experience, including 17 years as executive director: finance and services at the Evangelical…
NOW CLOSED: Children not in school consultation guide
In April 2019 the Government published a consultation entitled Children not in School. It proposes new legislation around home education and out-of-school education settings. Some years ago, when the Government was consulting on registering and inspecting out-of-school settings via Ofsted, the…
