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IDOP Online 2023
You are invited to join an evening of prayer to mark the Intentional Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. Along with our friends from Open Doors, CSW and Release International we held an evening of prayer to mark the Intentional Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. We shared stories from…
Five ways to help young people deepen their faith
Young people are in a season of life where they are in more places and with more people of diverse thinking and opinions than ever before, which also means that they are more likely to engage with Christians and Christian groups. That means that young people are influenced by us – what we do…
Bethan Newman
Stepping out
How did you come to faith? My Dad is a Bible college lecturer and my Mum is a vicar, so faith has always been a big part of life. At the age of three, I decided I wanted to follow Jesus, and I was baptised at six. Have you always wanted to share your faith? My church growing up was held in the…
Anna Seevaratnam
Briefing: Weddings law in England and Wales
In summer 2019, the UK government commissioned the Law Commission to "provide recommendations that allow for greater choice within a simple, fair and consistent legal structure". A year later, the Law Commission published its consultation paper, hosting online conversations, roundtables and…
Alicia Edmund
The voice of tomorrow’s church today
Here, Jesus-followers of all ethnicities don’t have to ‘fit in’ and leave their heritage at the door. This is a space where they know they are “no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with God’s people” (Ephesians 2:19). They are accepted as equals (Galatians 3:28). In such worship,…
Ian Collinge
List of grant-making trusts and organisations that are taking applications from Christian charities
Experts are telling us the number of people saying they've recently donated to charity is decreasing; two-fifths of people report they will be cutting back on charity donations; and predictions state household income pressures and a slower recovery of consumer spending are likely to result in fewer…
What I've learnt from Jordan Peterson
Truth and the limits of the postmodern lens To do that, I need to take you back to my university experience. One of the first modules on my literature course was about “ways of reading”, the different ideas and lenses through which we can read a book. Some are helpful as we try to understand the…
Helen Locke
Was doubting Thomas a postmodernist? | Being Human
For our quick take this week, Peter pays tribute to the apostle Thomas as 'the patron saint of postmodernism’.
The Evangelical Alliance joins the ‘Enough to Live’ campaign
Across the nation, there are growing concerns about how the increase in inflation and energy prices will see millions of families across the UK struggling to cope this winter. On Sunday, 7 August, the former prime minister Gordon Brown along with 56 faith groups, charities and regional politicians…
Alicia Edmund
Intercultural Church Conversation 2022
The Intercultural Church Conversation (ICC) is a series of online events to promote the significance and application of an intercultural approach to church in the UK – in a season when there is division and polarisation in both church and society. For this session our focus is on intercultural…
50 years on – a refugee story to inspire the local church
Fast forward to more recent times, and I now count some of the next generation of those refugees among my closest friends. In 2012, we had the immense privilege to visit Uganda to help build a nursery in partnership with Watoto, the organisation famous for its children’s choir. We had awesome…
Dayalan Mahesan
“COL”: now a universal acronym
UK inflation rates have hit levels we haven’t seen in 30 years, eye watering energy prices are predicted to rise again, and Northern Ireland tops the list of areas in the UK where the percentage of households is predicted to fall into fuel poverty by a whopping 76.3% by January 2023. The…
Danielle McElhinney
Like. Follow. Scroll. Repeat.
As a Christian, I will not disappoint. But before I go in on the ills of social media, I want to acknowledge its nuances. I am genuinely grateful to God that it exists. Social media isn’t bad As one who is blessed and destined to spend my life in dark brown skin, I am thankful that social media…
Damilola Makinde
Should Christians attend secular music festivals?
For as long as I can remember, I have always attended Notting Hill Carnival. It was a whole family affair: Mum, aunts, cousins and siblings in tow, in overwhelming anticipation we'd make our way to West London for the two-day event to celebrate our Caribbean heritage of our native island of…
Nicola Morrison
The world needs good neighbours
Against the backdrop of today’s western post-Christian society, what is love? Those of you who enjoyed pop music in the 90s will know a singer called Haddaway attempted to answer that very question, and there have been many musicians, philosophers and writers before and after him who have reflected…
Carl Knightly
