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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…
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
Celebrate the image of God in everyone this Disability Awareness Sunday
I lost my hearing 25 years ago. Along the way, I have also gained mobility difficulties and a facial difference. Mirrors are not my best friend!
Emily Owen
Gavin Calver and Phil Knox launch inspirational small group resource to accompany their new book, Good News People
Today, The Evangelical Alliance launches the Good News People small group resource – a guide for open conversation about what it means to be a good news person in a bad news world. Written by co-authors, long-time friends and passionate evangelists Gavin Calver (CEO) and Phil Knox (evangelism and…
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
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
Three reasons why the church must press further into political and public engagement on poverty
We have been calling for the formation and publication of an anti-poverty strategy for the past number of years, along with many others in the Coalition of Christian Voices against poverty, which we co-founded. The recent public consultation on the Northern Ireland Executive’s draft Anti-Poverty…
Amy Scott
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
Learn to listen, listen to learn: The sacred discipline of listening
In scripture, listening is not merely the prelude to speaking – it is a virtue in its own right. Proverbs is blunt in its warning: "He who answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame to him” (Proverbs 18:13, NKJV). In other words, there is something inherently unwise, even…
Duncan Williams
The promise and peril of digital ID
ID cards were introduced for both world wars but were abolished after each as there was a widespread feeling that they were becoming invasive, increasingly used for more general purposes and contrary to British values. This week, at the Global Progress Action Summit, the prime minister announced…
Mark Gilmore
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
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
Has Trump brought lasting peace to the Middle East?
This episode starts with a series of shorter conversations centred on different news stories. The team begin with Andy Burnham’s address at Theos, where the Mayor of Manchester urged government to “do God”, highlighting how faith communities deliver vital social action. Yet Burnham’s own struggle…
Special educational needs system at “breaking point” – how the church can speak up
On 18 September 2025, the Education Committee published its fifth report entitled Solving the SEND Crisis. This report was published following an inquiry into the SEND system, which was launched in December 2024.
Anna Iliescu
