Search results for c
Brexit: Is it an opportunity for the church?
Whether you are passionately celebrating, or convinced we are making a terrible mistake, or just plain fed up with the whole thing, there is no doubt that this is a significant moment in our recent national history. Brexit, it appears, does indeed mean Brexit.After so many words have been written…
Kieran Turner
Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Bill: update on the third stage
For a bill to become law through the Scottish parliamentary system, any potential legislation must pass through three stages. The first stage establishes the bill’s basic principles, the second stage sees the bill amended and clarified, and the third stage allows MSPs to vote the bill into law. The…
How to respond well to scandal and crisis
But it is also a very natural one: we can’t imagine our church ever being the subject of an investigative podcast or an independent safeguarding review. The problem is that the same would have been true for many members of Mark Driscoll’s Mars Hill, Steve Timmis’ Crowded House or Jonathan…
Ed Shaw
Interview: Scotland public policy highlights, and what’s new in Holyrood for 2023
Of all the nations, I would say Scotland and the Scottish parliament has been the most active in introducing and consulting on new legislation. What are some of the different policy areas you have worked on this past year? Yes, it has been a very busy year in Scotland. We are part of the Scottish…
Alicia Edmund
Church leaders burn out too – let’s embrace our limits as Jesus did
The truth is that among church leadership, statistics on emotional and mental burnout are concerning. During our Changing Church survey in autumn 2021, 1 in 10 of our member church leaders reported that their emotional wellbeing was poor or very poor. Mark Massey, leader of Frinton Free Church,…
Helen Locke
Four tips for navigating redundancy as a Christian
As she had been praying for me, an image had popped into her mind – drooping sunflowers trying to put down roots inside a vase. That’s the wrong place! she thought. Then she saw hands lifting the flowers out and planting them in soil where they began to flourish. I thanked her and let her know it…
Bryony Lines
Jesus' great commission: we all can fulfil it
Born out of a desire to equip the UK church for mission, Great Commission has shared story after story of people stepping out in their context, sharing their faith and making Jesus known. Now two years in, we’re certainly not done yet. It can sometimes feel like evangelism is best left to the…
Eve Paterson
Children of the promise
Rt Rev Dr Jill Duff, Bishop of Lancaster, speaks on Romans 8 and shares her heart for the UK church to see many more people in our communities come to faith in Jesus, at the first ever Evangelical Alliance Leadership Conference (EALC). Christians who hold positions of leadership, both within the…
A broken education system
What does TLG do? Our team of trained church-based volunteers carry Jesus into the lives of children who struggle with school owing to the tough circumstances they face. The common scenario we come across is the breakdown of family life: mum and dad no longer living in the same house. The impact on…
Naomi Osinnowo
Prayer amid political disagreement
Some would say that the road to unity is apathy; if our political, or indeed theological, differences are trivial, then working together is easy. But this is an unreal response to the real world: cheap unity like cheap grace. Significant political decisions have a real impact, particularly on the…
John Coleby
Relationship and sex education
Who we are is intrinsically linked to how we relate to others. Fundamental to Christians is the belief that all people are created male and female in the image of God, which bestows an inalienable dignity and respect on all people. For Christians who worship the Triune God who is love, and are…
Making ethical decisions that value human life webinar
Lives and livelihoods are at urgent risk and a vaccine protecting us from COVID-19 appears to offer hope of recovery for both. So the imminent mass-roll out of a vaccine looks like good and welcome news! Yes? Hopefully so, but many people continue to ask questions and raise concerns about the…
Remember When in lockdown...
This special #RememberWhen session is designed to help you and your small group process what we’ve been through during the coronavirus pandemic. It’s an opportunity to share some of your experiences from lockdown, what you learnt about yourself and your faith, and begin to recognise moments of…
The hidden persecution of Christian women and girls
Recently, Open Doors published a parliamentary report exploring the impact that gender has on the persecution of Christians across the world. The report noted that Christian women and girls experience a greater breadth of persecution than their male counterparts because the persecution that they…
Nicola Martin
A heart for justice
To mark its 50th anniversary this year, Tearfund will be among the charities and organisations that will host the event, which has been organised by its theological and networks manager, Jo Herbert. In an interview with Naomi Osinnowo, the editorial content manager at the Evangelical Alliance, of…
Naomi Osinnowo
