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A £1.5 billion regeneration fund evangelicals should know about
I was recently listening to Natalie Williams, chief executive of Jubliee+ (member organisation), on Simon Guillebaud’s podcast share her testimony and talk about the importance of local churches getting mercy and justice into the DNA of church ministry and discipleship. Towards the end of the…
Alicia Edmund
Family, safety, community: Do we have to choose in the migration debate?
According to the YouGov polling tracker, migration is topping the country’s issues of concern for the first time since 2015. Whether it’s over flags, hotels, small boats or violent crime, everyone has something to say or a problem to posit. But when it comes to listening to voices articulating…
Jo Frost
New Both Lives Podcast is launched by the Evangelical Alliance – exploring what it means to truly value the lives of both women and unborn children in pregnancy.
Host, Dawn McAvoy, our Both Lives UK lead, will be joined for the first season of this new podcast by an array of guests, including Dr Dermot Kearney and Carla Lockhart MP. The Both Lives Podcast is here to spark honest, bold and compassionate conversations around pregnancy and motherhood. Each…
Who is my neighbour? The hermeneutic of love
As we continue to see protests in the UK in front of hotels housing refugees and England and Union Jack flags being displayed in high streets and neighbourhoods, and the mass protests in central London this past weekend, I find myself, contemplating, who is my neighbour? And from this question, I…
Rev Dr Israel Oluwole Olofinjana
A glimmer of hope: the Lords is uncovering the truth about assisted suicide
On Friday, the House of Lords concluded its two-day second reading debate on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill. As is convention, the bill wasn’t voted down at this stage, but there was a significant victory: Labour peer Baroness Berger successfully passed an amendment to set up a…
Mark Gilmore
Christian nationalism in the UK: a contest for the nation's soul?
“We are a Christian country, or we were,” he told MPs, “and we need to recover the sense that our values are not arbitrary but are grounded in the eternal truths of the Christian faith.” His remarks were delivered to a largely empty chamber but later went viral. They also signalled a growing debate…
Peter Lynas
An ageing population – problem or opportunity?
The over-85s are now the fastest-growing group, set to double in the next two decades. Many of us even know someone who has reached their 100th birthday! The 2021 census revealed the average age of Christians in the UK was 51, up from 45 just ten years before.
Paul Crowther
Light up your town this Halloween
Our idea was to go out to where people in the community were on Halloween and to engage with ‘trick or treaters’ with beacons as an alternative way to spend the evening. We identified key areas in our locality where there would be significant footfall, set up gazebos and lit them up. At the gazebos…
Andrew Bates
“Local churches are a vital part of our community,” says Labour MP
Our purpose as an advocacy team is to speak out on issues that matter with a hope-filled, trustworthy and confident voice and to speak up prophetically about what is happening across the UK and the hope Jesus brings. As the head of public policy, I have the joy and the challenge of providing…
Alicia Edmund
Three reasons why prayer must be at the heart of our response to abortion
During the gathering, we prayed into four key areas: the wider situation across society and government; young people grappling with this complex issue amidst the noise of social media; those in our churches who have been personally impacted by abortion; and church leaders, as they seek to engage…
Lisa Barr
How unemployment brought me closer to God
My friend went on to explain that he believed this season would be important for me because God would give me a new assignment. This short conversation helped me totally reframe the situation and I came away deeply encouraged. Now, looking back, he wasn’t wrong. After hearing that my role was at…
Paul Berry
Ending demand for prostitution – busting ten myths
The Evangelical Alliance believes that every human being is made in the image of the living God and is worthy of dignity, compassion, protection and care. No one should be bought, sold or exploited. We are proud to stand alongside CARE and Restore Glasgow in launching this new factsheet.
From overwhelmed to overcomer: Lucy’s journey to financial freedom with God’s help
My journey into debt began unremarkably, after I graduated from university and into the 2008 financial crisis. Student loans, an overdraft, a credit card – they felt like rites of passage at first. But a string of insecure jobs, unexpected periods of ill-health, and a draining commute slowly began…
Lucy
Joining the dots between foodbanks and faith sharing
The tide is rising. Everywhere I speak at the moment I encounter stories that reinforce the statistics that the church is growing. And whilst big pieces of research like The Quiet Revival have announced what is happening, the Evangelical Alliance have been listening to how it is happening. One of…
Phil Knox
Thresholds and tables
Hospitality is central in almost every culture. I’ve sat in near strangers' homes, sharing food around their tables in India, Ukraine, Africa and many other parts of the world and I’m sure you have similar stories. Something essential happens when we cross into each other’s homes and share food…
David Smyth
