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175th Anniversary Appeal
A snapshot of our history shows the Evangelical Alliance advocating for freedom across Europe, promoting and providing prayer cover, responding to need, supporting churches and their leaders, building unity, fighting injustice, and helping thousands come to know Jesus. In the midst of a rapidly…
Innovative church projects to aid Covid recovery
On the back of the recent budget, research from the New Economics Foundation predicts that the poorest fifth of all households will be worse off this year despite the chancellor’s decision to partly reverse cuts to universal credit. The report makes grim reading, but the reality could be even…
Kate Sharma
Those exploring their sexual orientation or gender identity should be allowed to choose support, new poll reveals
Less than a third of UK adults are clear on what the ban on conversion therapy would include A new survey released today has revealed that the majority of UK adults (58 per cent) believe individuals who are exploring their sexual orientation or gender identity should be able to choose from a range…
Being human: the tendency to deconstruct
Those years as a theology student were the toughest ones growing up. I relished the late-night pub conversations with friends musing over which parts of the Bible are literal, which are figurative, what to take seriously and what to discard. That was exciting and interesting. But eventually, the…
Nadia Vermaak
A law that traps teens
He was rather taken aback by my disclosure, and to be honest, so was I. I hadn’t planned to tell him. He hadn’t pressured me to do so, but when I saw an opportunity open up, I took it almost before realising what I was doing. It felt like a life-defining moment. For the first time, what I had been…
Andrew Bunt
Protecting asylum seekers and refugees: If not you, then who?
The most contentious principle in the bill is the differential treatment of asylum seekers based on how they entered the UK. The fall of Afghanistan and the resettlement response best exemplifies the failings in this policy. Men, women and children received indefinite leave to remain and the…
Alicia Edmund
Is saving souls all that matters?
One recent scientific study argued that based on our current trajectory, almost all of the world’s coral reefs will be gone by 2050, by which time the ocean may contain (by weight) more plastic than fish. It’s a bleak picture. Apart from a handful of vocal conspiracy theorists, the overwhelming…
Andy Palmer
Gathered church is back but habits are changing, says new Evangelical Alliance report
Gathered church is back but habits have changed, says the Evangelical Alliance today as it publishes its latest Changing Church report, providing insights into the new landscape of the UK evangelical church. This research suggests that the pandemic is impacting people’s habits in relation to church…
Advent prayer
"Out of the stump of David's family will grow a shoot– yes, a new Branch bearing fruit from the old root. The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him – the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord... In that day the heir of…
Meet Manoj Raithatha, our new board chair
Can you tell us a bit about yourself - how did you find God? When sharing my faith with others, I often say God ‘found me’, as opposed to the other way around. I was raised a Hindu but as a teenager became fascinated by the message of the gospel as shared by my then school headmaster. However, it…
Evangelical Alliance
We are all Kevin McCallister
In the Knox house, next week we will wrap presents while getting angry with Alan Rickman for breaking Emma Thompson's heart in Love Actually. Soon, hopefully with at least one eye on the football, I will have to endure The Holiday. Then, Bruce Willis will throw Alan Rickman off the Nakatomi tower…
Phil Knox
Give marginalised a voice to build climate future
To build the vision of COP26, government and private-sector organisations have developed work programmes, projects and networks that give voice to both young and marginalised peoples, which allows them to advocate change for themselves and their communities. We believe that this a beautiful,…
Shanley McConnell
In the bleak midwinter…
The Salvation Army says one in five young adults will have no choice but to rely on charity this Christmas. And here’s how Christians Against Poverty (CAP) summed up the financial side of things: “This Christmas, many of the people CAP helps, and thousands of other families living in poverty, are…
Helen Locke
Everyone welcome
More people go to church at Christmas than at any other time of the year. Much-loved carols, familiar Bible passages, a children’s nativity scene, followed by a mince pie, shaking hands with the minister – or bumping elbows this year – these are part of a traditional Christmas. And everyone loves…
Christine Winmill
Two-tier asylum system could soon become law
On Tuesday, 7 and Wednesday, 8 December, MPs gave final speeches and contributions to the bill. Listening to the debates, what was clear was a cross-party effort to raise different concerns and propose amendments that would significantly improve the bill and its treatment to those most in need and…
Alicia Edmund
