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Being Jesus' feet on the street
We’re one of the oldest Pentecostal churches around. Being right on Northumberland Park, near Tottenham Hotspur football stadium, we get heavy footfall, so we try to engage with the community in practical ways and let people know we’re here. The local community is diverse, made up of a range of…
Helen Locke
Catch up now: Evangelical Alliance Leadership Conference 2022
The last two years have brought all of us to the edge of our resilience and experience, surrounded by an ever-shifting culture. But now we're also coming to the edge of what God has before us – of what is ahead. Catch up on this year’s EALC when we heard from leaders across the UK church and beyond…
Government minister: faith communities vital to pandemic recovery
Meetings and particularly events on Zoom can add to pandemic fatigue – but not yesterday. It was great to hear so many church leaders and organisations (including some Evangelical Alliance members) on the call share examples of the different ways they supported the most vulnerable in society to…
Alicia Edmund
Serve the story
Perhaps you think this is awfully postmodern of me, swapping story for truth. It possibly is. But before you sigh and stop reading, don’t. I’m a young person and young people are postmodern (although often unwittingly and certainly not exclusively). I suppose we could apologise for the…
Archie Catchpole
Remembering God’s grace while we wait for the verdict
Jesus calls Christians to pursue justice, yet refrain from judging others – but how do we navigate this when a case is of such public interest? Something has uniquely challenged the way I process my thoughts and emotions in relation to public cases of this nature. I am desperate to see…
Jo Evans
Being Human: Listening to voices not valued
I would guess that if you are reading this you are a human, though I haven’t completely given up on the notion of literate animals (they probably find what we write to be so inane they have largely dismissed us). I suspect that our confusion about what it is to be human partly arises from our…
Rose Lynas
The ripples of mission
January 2022 marks the very first Tamil Heritage Month after a recent unanimous vote by the London Assembly to recognise it as such. It offers a chance to spotlight and celebrate the contribution of the vibrant Tamil community in the UK. It also gives us an opportunity to highlight some of the…
Dayalan Mahesan
How we can support Christians in Afghanistan, where faith is costliest?
Last week Open Doors published their annual report of the top 50 countries where Christians experience persecution based on their faith. As a country where religious freedom is virtually non-existent, North Korea has sat at the top of the World Watch List for the past 20 years. However, following…
Nicola Martin
Hope Countryside
Hope Countryside has developed out of meetings and discussions over the past few years. It is currently a partnership between the World Prayer Centre, Agricultural Christian Fellowship, Village Hope and Top Barn Trust. Our aim is to mobilise and resource prayer for rural Britain – for farming and…
Old tweets and the importance of our words
The prime minister is “regretfully sorry” for the parties that he may or may not have attended; Doug Beattie was “ashamed and sorry” for derogatory comments he tweeted over a decade ago; and most recently, a handful of Sinn Fein politicians were also “deeply sorry” for historical sectarian slurs…
Conversion therapy: Ending abuse while enabling support
The UK government are in the final week of consulting on proposals that will affect England and Wales, in Scotland a parliamentary committee has recently published a report calling for a ban, and in Northern Ireland proposals are expected later this year.
Danny Webster
Developing, exercising and celebrating multi-ethnicity in a united church
What’s the secret to unity? No two parts of the body are the same and each part has an important function that we need to survive. We can apply this analogy to ourselves too – we each have a unique character and specific role that adds value and significance to the bigger family of God. “Yes,…
Carla Jacobs
Cross Section
Welcome to Cross Section, a podcast from the Evangelical Alliance. At some point, we all find ourselves at the cross section of news, current affairs, politics and our faith. How do we navigate the endless news cycle, social media, fake news, cancel culture and more? How do we connect the good news…
Hope for asylum seekers
Much that we offered was very practical, from donating warm clothes and suitable footwear to helping them access local services such as buses and shops. Some people questioned why our church was getting so involved in helping these “foreigners” who were mostly from an Islamic background and had…
Stockport Baptist
Hope for the harvest
It turned out there is always a way to sow the seed of God’s word! We adapted. Like many, we started to sow God’s word through social media. Our church has grown during the pandemic through new believers finding community and faith. We met one guy in his 30s in an online Bible study. As his faith…
The Journey Church, Manchester
