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5 reasons why Above and Beyond is an essential day for your church
Join us for Above and Beyond, a day conference helping you to run your church or charity excellently by complying with the law and regulations. Here we explain why it's a day you and your church shouldn't miss. 1. Virtually all churches are charities, so understanding what that means and requires…
Danny Webster
Belonging: a church for all
Kay Morgan-Gurr is part of churches for All and a member of the Evangelical Alliance's council. International Day of Persons with Disabilities. It’s a mouthful of a title, and one that quite a few disabled people dislike. But this proves a point: out of all the areas of diversity, disability is one…
Guest writer
Dave Cave, first co-ordinator of ACUTE, passes away
Dave Cave, the first co-ordinator of the Alliance's theology commission, has passed away. Dave's influence as the first co-ordinator, in 1993, of the newly founded Alliance Commission on Unity and Truth among Evangelicals (ACUTE) was considerable. ACUTE was established to provide a theological…
Alexandra Davis
Above & Beyond - churches and charities run well for the glory of God
Above and Beyond - churches and charities run well for the glory of God. Tuesday, 20 February 2018 9.30am-4pm St Mary's London, W1H 1PQ Hosted by the Evangelical Alliance Do not miss this opportunity to connect with the latest thinking and leading experts on good governance, legal matters and…
Alexandra Davis
greatcommission.co.uk celebrates first anniversary
The Great Commission website is celebrating its first anniversary. The evangelism hub has shared more than 50 stories of how Jesus is changing lives across the UK since its launch in October 2016. greatcommission.co.uk was set up to help Christians and churches share their own stories of how Jesus…
Alexandra Davis
Movement Day: seeking peace and prosperity for our towns and cities
Hundreds of Christians gathered at Westminster Central Hall on 6 and 7 October to seek the peace and prosperity of their towns, cities and places. Movement Day UK saw leaders from across the country meet together to seek the cultural, social and spiritual transformation of their communities. Hosted…
From suicidal despair to a life filled with love
I was almost committing suicide because I just hated life, it was just too much for me, and life meant nothing at all. Life was just crumbling and I did not want to live anymore. I thought I am studying so I can get a good job, then I can get a family, and then I can get kids, and then the cycle…
Guest writer
Our future hope
Hope is important to human flourishing. We can endure almost anything in the present if we have hope for the future. As long as we are persuaded that our present situation is not our ultimate destination we can endure the present as we hope for the future. Hope is not only important to human…
Guest writer
Providing refuge for the Iraqi victims of IS
“They looked like me, they dressed like me,” Maran recalls. “They were doctors, nurses, well-educated people, who looked like my uncles, my aunts. They were on the floor, with nothing, traumatised. The kids couldn’t speak – they were in complete shock.” So she began taking beds, food and meeting…
Guest writer
Unity in diversity
We have all heard the stories of division and partisanship in our culture at present. We hear them in the news, in our neighbourhoods, even in our churches. We know the division that exists in our own hearts - the division between what we want to do and what we actually do. The church in the UK has…
Alexandra Davis
Hope in Northern Ireland: past, present and future
It may seem a strange time to write about ‘hope’ in relation to Northern Ireland. Despite a period of relative stability, in recent months the dominant media narrative has turned much more negative. At the time of writing, the Northern Ireland Assembly has not sat in Stormont for months, and…
Heather Tomlinson
The hopes of 1846 evangelicals for unity have been realised, 170 years on
There were differences on theological topics from infant baptism to slavery. The biggest rift was between the established Anglican churches and those in the Congregational or ‘Free’ churches. That evangelicals within the Anglican and Free churches are broadly unified now is partly due to the hard…
Kim Walker
Nurturing the leaders of the future
This means that bringing hope and good leadership into the public arena is needed now more than ever. From the local community centre to our national parliaments, from the staff room to the boardroom, we need hope-filled Christian public leaders who are living out the kingdom of God in every area…
Kieran Turner
To see the coming kingdom is our hope
The church is God’s chosen instrument to bring change to the world. It is Christ’s body on earth. As an organisation, the Evangelical Alliance exists to serve this church, and we have the privilege of working together to bring the great hope of Christ to the world. I don’t mean the church as an…
Steve Clifford
A vision of hope for the future of our society
Whether this was campaigning against the transatlantic slave trade, improving working conditions or renewing civil society, evangelicals are, and always will be, activists. The good news of salvation in Jesus is at the heart of our message and motivation, and as John Stott observed, the gospel has…
Danny Webster
