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Welcomed into divine community
On 8 July 2013, 29,000 Californian prisoners launched a hunger strike, the largest jail protest the state had ever seen. Their cause? California's use of solitary confinement, which saw some inmates held for decades with almost no human contact. Psychologists deemed it tantamount to torture.Last…
Derek Burnside
Caribbean communities’ contribution to the UK
The media has been awash with stories of long-standing Caribbean residents being entangled in an immigration crisis. What are your views? This national debacle and administrative tragedy has evoked feelings of distrust. It's shocking and scandalous that someone like Paulette Wilson, who came here…
Naomi Osinnowo
One: unity in diversity – a personal journey
One explores the challenges of unity as outworked both in his day-to-day marriage and home life, and national and international relations. Unity is what drives him – but not just for unity's sake. In bringing people together, we are following the John 17 mandate to show the immense love of God, who…
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We love to visit member churches, organisations and communities. It is our privilege to share good news stories of what God is doing around the UK, preach on what we believe God is saying to the evangelical church, and offer our perspective on what is happening at this moment culturally and…
New Evangelical Alliance website resources and equips UK church
The Evangelical Alliance launches its brand new website eauk.org today, as a key part of its mandate to serve and resource the UK church. Focused on the Evangelical Alliance’s commitment to build confidence in the gospel and be a trusted voice in society, the new site is packed with resources,…
Evangelical Alliance champions one public voice
What’s the worst thing that an MP could do? You can tell a lot about a profession or a vocation from asking what its worst crime is. For each one there’s often an act of wrongdoing that goes against that profession in a fundamental way. For doctors, it’s to do harm rather than to heal. For a…
John Coleby
Church leader: "Our unity changes the spiritual atmosphere"
The apostle Paul paints a vivid picture of the church as the body of Christ, with Jesus Himself as the head. For those who have been Christ-followers for a while, His words will be well known, but sometimes the plain truth can be lost in our familiarity. Let’s read these words as though, perhaps,…
Steve Uppal
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
Where payday lender Wonga went wrong
It was a tech start-up touted to soar into the stratosphere – alongside Facebook, Amazon and Google. It attracted investors and board members from venture capitalists and luminaries of the digital world. It had quirky TV adverts with puppets, and a slick online system that provided the user with…
Danny Webster
Neighbourhood Chaplains – helping churches to heal their communities
Over the years, readers of idea magazine will have encountered numerous stories which describe how the Evangelical Alliance and its members are moved by the Spirit of God to be bold, brave, steadfast and pioneering in the UK, to make the sacrificial love of Jesus Christ known in the midst of an…
Naomi Osinnowo
A deeper relationship yields greater results
“When the storm comes and the fierce winds, when all around it is battered and besieged, the tree with deep roots will not be uprooted. It will not fall.” A board meeting, a training session and a church sermon. I have heard the same analogy and the same call to the church in three very different…
Jo Frost
MediaServe
MediaServe has over 20 years’ experience of partnering with different ministries in many developing countries striving to meet the desperate need for culturally relevant materials for evangelism and discipleship. We serve Christians located in areas where biblical material is largely unavailable.…
Great Commission to share Jesus at CRE
That’s why I’m so excited that we’re going to be running three seminars at the Christian Resources Exhibition, a three-day event that shares our vision of working together to get the very best inspiration and innovation for the UK church. Individual members of the Evangelical Alliance can get their…
Eve Paterson
Stewardship's new CEO talks money, leadership and more
Ram Gidoomal CBE, Stewardship’s chair of trustees, says the panel had to choose from a competitive field of candidates, and they unanimously selected you. In your view, what made you stand out? I was humbled to be selected by the trustees to lead Stewardship. I obviously have no knowledge of the…
Guest writer
No ordinary church service: teens take their stand in Jesus
But every so often, there are those that leave us knowing that things will not be the same again, where we have encountered God in such a compelling and authentic way that our lives are profoundly and irreversibly changed. I went to one of these services last Sunday. The service filled me with such…
Phil Knox
