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Publication: Building tomorrow's church today
Over the last few months, our One People Commission has been giving particular attention to the issue of young adults, recognising the challenge we face as a UK Church to ensure that young adults and their voices are heard. Young adults in our churches have told us their views and experiences of…
Austen Ivereigh
He founded Catholic Voices in 2010 aiming to give the Church a voice on contentious issues. Peter Lynas asked him about the Reformation, ecumenical relations and the challenges facing the Church today. Tell us a little about your work with Catholic Voices Catholic Voices (CV) was founded in 2010…
Peter Lynas
Does justification by faith still matter?
Calvin Samuel is principal of the London School of Theology. It’s not that many Christians, particularly evangelicals, have stopped thinking that justification by faith is true. It’s rather more likely that we are in danger of no longer viewing this doctrine as vitally important. Indeed, in some…
Guest writer
The 9 - 5 with Ifor Williams
Twice president of The Baptist Union of Wales, Ifor Williams was a Baptist minister in Broad Haven for more than 20 years and part of the founding teams for New Wine Cymru and Waleswide. He now works in Breconshire supporting rural communities going through difficult times. Ifor is author of Open…
Rebecca Taylor
Tithing: how should we do it?
Israel Olofinjana, a Baptist pastor in London, inspires us with examples of African Church's approach and looks at how financial gifts are seen as giving back to God all He has blessed us with.'Offering time is blessing time!' is one of the strap lines used during the collection of offering and…
Guest writer
Giving to public life
Sometimes you can try too hard to crowbar an article into a theme, or force it to fit a topic, and I thought that might be the case on this occasion. How can I talk about politics and public life in a magazine focused around giving and generosity? Not exactly an obvious fit. But perhaps the fact…
Danny Webster
The generosity of God’s people
As I write this Last Word, I realise I've been general director of the Evangelical Alliance for more than eight years. I remember well my first day as Ann and I arrived at Whitfield House (our old resource centre), welcomed by the whole staff team with a large cake to celebrate. These last years…
Steve Clifford
Should Christians do yoga?
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Alexandra Davis
What kind of nation?
Ahead of the independence referendum in 2014 the Evangelical Alliance Scotland launched a manifesto entitled What Kind of Nation? comprising 38 recommendations covering the four pillars of Scottish society – the economy, the family, civil society and the environment. A ruthless commitment to the…
Leading in the community – the role of magistrates
Ian Rawley is the senior pastor of New Life Church, Cambridge. As well as leading his local church, he travels extensively around the world, helping church leaders and encouraging churches. He is also involved in humanitarian work, especially in the global south. Ian has served in various roles as…
Abi Jarvis
Director Elfed Godding will leave the Evangelical Alliance in September
Elfed Godding will step down as national director for Wales and coalitions at the Evangelical Alliance at the end of September to embark on a new phase of ministry. After a three-year period seeking God's will for the next chapter in his life and service, Elfed announced in May that after 19 years…
Evangelical Alliance welcomes the ruling of the Supreme Court on NI Abortion Law
The Supreme Court has ruled that the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission does not have standing to challenge Northern Ireland's abortion laws. Former barrister Peter Lynas, NI director of Evangelical Alliance, commented: "This is a welcome judgment. It is obviously not a cause for…
Statement in response to abortion referendum in Ireland
David Smyth, public policy officer at the Evangelical Alliance in Northern Ireland said: "Today many will mourn the loss of a vital protection for women and their unborn children from the Irish constitution."There are very strong feelings on all sides and we want to commend all those who advocated…
New Team
New Team SCIO aims to support spiritual, emotional and social development, meeting young people where they hang out through street youth work (detached work) and build more youth work opportunities from those relationships. The areas of Govan New Team targets are in the most "deprived" five per…
Ten podcasts for public leaders
Cultural intelligence Q Podcast Q, a website of videos and articles, was birthed out of Gabe Lyons’ vision to see Christians, especially leaders, recover a vision for their historic responsibility to renew and restore cultures. The podcast (qpodcast.libsyn.com) covers a large subject-base…
Abi Jarvis
