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Yorkshire puddings for breakfast: the importance of preparing our youth for university
Sunday, September 20th, 2015. With a car full of absolutely ridiculous items (seriously, why did I take a rolling pin to university?), my parents and I set off for Norwich to begin the next chapter of my life. I was 18 years old, straight out of school, and had signed up for three years at the…
Sam Brown
Biblical unity, with diversity at its heart
I believe there are three theological ideas that can help us appreciate the kind of unity God spoke about the Bible. The first starts with creation. One crucial aspect of creation theology is what the biblical accounts of creation tell us about what it means to be human. Creation theology furnishes…
Rev Dr Israel Oluwole Olofinjana
High-impact church in a post-pandemic world
Ekklesia is an assembly of people united to impact their community, town or city. Paul tells us ‘the glue’ is a mindset of humility, gentleness and patience, bearing with one another in love. Love comes from deep relationship, passionately wanting each other to flourish. We find ways to serve…
Steve Botham
Pastor: "We're blessed to be a blessing"
Gateway Church stepped in, not knowing we’d end up running a large-scale operation that’d provide more than 12,000 cooked meals and food parcels over the year to students, vulnerable families, individuals in the community, and NHS night staff at Nevill Hall Hospital. Armed with a small team of…
Christopher Vaz
Being Human podcast – season three
In this latest six-part season, Jo and Peter hear from guests including artist and activist Hannah Thomas, academic and historian Carl Trueman, and commentator and author David Bennett. Drawing from a breadth of experience and faith-filled lives, this season explores issues such as identity,…
Reflect and Reset - part 1
We launched part one of Reflect and Reset to help you explore and investigate the foundations of your church. Together, we’re asking the profound questions about who, how, why and where is the church. You can use these components as an individual leader, or in a church leadership team, as you take…
Reaching the 99 in our local schools
A few years ago, Scripture Union released some challenging research that indicated over 95 per cent of young people in the UK were not connected to a local church. We also know that 99 per cent of young people in the UK engage in mainstream education in some form. I believe that if we truly want to…
Pete Baker
Evangelical Alliance launches new season of podcast on what it means to be human
Today, the Evangelical Alliance is launching the third season of the Being Human podcast, part of its project to inspire everyday Christians to understand, articulate and participate in the biblical vision of humanity. The podcast, hosted by Evangelical Alliance directors Jo Frost and Peter Lynas,…
Have we forgotten the secret weapon of scripture?
Let’s consider the evidence. We know from the 2015 Talking Jesus research that engagement with the Bible is one of the main ways in which people come to faith. Yet around 60% of the population never read the Bible at all. Those non-churchgoers who might be interested in reading it don’t know where…
Paul Williams
One Body in Christ: The History and Significance of the Evangelical Alliance
This book by Rev Dr David Hilborn and Rev Dr Ian Randall traces the Evangelical Alliance from its foundation in 1846, using previously unexplored archives
Being Human interview with Carl Trueman
“Apologetics today is more about explaining to the church what is going on in the world than explaining to the world what the church teaches.” This is a view held by author, theologian and ecclesiastical historian Carl Trueman. In his latest book The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self (2020), he…
Changing Church: autumn 2021 report
Our third survey of the UK church during the Covid-19 pandemic suggests that the pandemic is impacting people’s habits in relation to church attendance, yet despite these fluctuations churches continue to share the good news of Jesus and serve their local communities. The survey was open between 14…
COP26: Helping churches in Scotland to become net zero
As our policy position on the environment states: “We believe it is part of our commission as Christians to be good stewards of God’s creation. In Genesis, after God created the earth and everything in it, He declared it very good. He invited the people He had created to have ‘dominion’ over it;…
Chris Ringland
Being Human: Vulnerability and our need for connection
Before I know it I’m stood there holding two tiny, precious babies. My wife had already held both babies, and I’d marvelled at watching her with these two new humans. But now I’m stood holding one in each arm, looking down into these new faces I’d never seen before. It was a moment so full of…
Richard Powney
Stewardship: "Churches should act now to avoid drop in donations"
Virgin Money announced in August this year that its fundraising website, which has helped 20,000 charities and more than one million fundraisers raise more than £900m online, will be wound down after the 2021 London Marathon in October as it requires significant investment to remain competitive.…
Evangelical Alliance
