Press Release from EFAC: THE RESOURCE Group supporting evangelical Archbishops and bishops from the Global South attending the Lambeth Conference (26JUL-8AUG) have issued a ‘Call To Prayer’’ to all UK evangelicals. The invitation from Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, to bishops in the Anglican Communion has caused great pain amongst orthodox leaders, for the Archbishop […]

From the AMiE website: We are delighted to announce the appointment of two new bishops for the Anglican Mission in England. Tim Davies and Lee McMunn will serve as Assistant Bishops under the leadership of our Convocation Bishop, Andy Lines. After a thorough process of references, conversations and interviews the three clergy and three lay […]

from Christian Today: Across the country, churches are welcoming refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants into their local communities. Many of these new arrivals need help with their English and Christian TEFL is supporting churches as they seek to meet that need by training up their members to become English language teachers. A new short course about to […]

by Gavin Ashenden: Last year 23,000 illegal migrants crossed the channel by boat, provoking angst in the UK collective conscience. Which is the worthier moral course? To accept them all, discarding the rule of law, enabling the people smugglers lucrative and evil business, or enact a gesture of discomfort and enable deportations for those who […]

by Toby Young, Conservative Home: In an article published last week, Chris Philp says the House of Commons committee that is scrutinising the Online Safety Bill has heard evidence from a ‘wide range of people… welcoming this pioneering internet safety law’. Had the committee invited the Free Speech Union to give evidence – or, indeed, […]

by John F Hanna, TGC: Deeply embedded within our societal conflicts are differing narratives and understandings of the human person. A human is image of God (Gen. 1:26–27, 5:1; 9:6; James 3:9), who degrades that image in sin by turning away from God and is called to restoration and renewal through Jesus Christ. In those […]

from Religion Media Centre: Moves to replace school collective worship with inclusive assemblies, include humanism in religious education and end religious discrimination in teacher recruitment, have failed in the House of Lords.  Baroness Meacher, known as a prominent humanist, said the changes were appropriate in a country where 62 per cent do not identify as […]

by Trevin Wax, TGC: James Davison Hunter’s To Change the World advocated a model of culture engagement he called a “faithful presence”—a position he set against some other methods on display, seen in both the culture-warring and the culture-engaging strategies of evangelicals during the 1990s and early 2000s. Today, many younger evangelicals consider “faithful presence” […]

by Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post: Secular intolerance has a “chilling effect” on Christians who are having to practice “various forms of self-censorship” as they’re finding it difficult to express their faith freely in society, according to a new report detailing accounts from four countries. “Secular intolerance has a chilling effect on Christians, which directly affects […]

by Archbishop Cranmer: ‘The Lady of Heaven’ is currently being pulled from cinema chains because it is considered ‘blasphemous’ by certain Muslims. They have a perfect right to protest, of course: this is a free country. But once again we see the assertion of a right not to be offended, which does not exist in […]