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Paul Kunert

Date posted: 25 Nov 2025

"Peace, peace," they say, when there is no peace. ^[1]

"Don’t worry, everything’s fine, carry on as you are" – even a cursory reading of the Biblical prophets reveals this to be the very epitome of false prophecy. Yet this is precisely the counsel Paul Mills’ article, published earlier this year, offers us.

scattering seeds of hope

Heather Munro

Date posted: 9 Dec 2025

For the last few years, my sister and I have been sewing reusable wrapping. We buy lovely cotton cloth in Christmas prints, hem the material, tie with ribbon, and reuse the fabrics every year. They look beautiful under the tree — and it feels good to celebrate Christmas in a way that doesn’t add to the planet’s waste.

But did you know that Christmas itself is the ultimate reason to care for the earth? Not the commercial one, with glitter and excess, but the real one... “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us” (John 1v14).

Daniel McIlhiney

Date posted: 16 Aug 2026

What do you think the greatest fear in the Western World is? Death? Poverty? Climate Change? For decades, the number one fear has been shown, in both the US and the UK, to be public speaking.

Does that surprise you?

Tim Farron

Date posted: 22 Jun 2026

Political drama has roared back into Westminster today. Within five hours, Keir Starmer resigned as Prime Minister, and Andy Burnham was sworn in as the new MP for Makerfield. The assumption of course, is that Burnham will take over as Prime Minister in the coming weeks.

There may yet be a leadership contest, but primary challenger Wes Streeting has said that he will support Burnham, so it looks more likely to be a coronation for the former Manchester Mayor and so-called King of the North.

David Robertson

Date posted: 20 Mar 2026

en does not support any one particular party. However, we are interested in evangelicals within each of our political parties. Following the recent Green Party by-election win, en invited Andrew Mellen to set out why, as an evangelical, he chose the party as his political home. His article can be read here. Now, Scottish Presbyterian minister and religious commentator David Robertson responds.

I am not a fan of clergy telling Christians who to vote for – that is not our job. In my previous congregation of St Peters Dundee, we had Tories, Labour and SNP supporters, Liberal Democrats and doubtless people of other persuasions – and that is the way it should be. However, there are exceptions to every rule.

Andy Mellen

Date posted: 5 Mar 2026

en does not support any one particular party. However, we are interested in evangelicals within each of our political parties. Following the recent Green Party by-election win, en invited Andrew Mellen to set out why, as an evangelical, he has chosen the party as his political home.

John-Edward Funnell

Date posted: 14 Jun 2026

Some of my most precious times as a father are when I get to share cultural moments that shaped me, with my children – blasts from the past. For example, when the radio plays an Oasis song and, to my surprise, my teenagers sing along to every word with me.

In these moments of shared cultural experience, our generational divide vanishes. To them, the song is “retro” – to me it is “nostalgic”. But we are united in that moment.

Neil Robbie

Date posted: 8 Jun 2026

This article is a "part two" to the piece of the same title (en online, 13 Sept. 2025) and has been written after comments on the initial article led its writer, Neil, to do some more thinking about Adam and Eve. Read that first article here.

"Misunderstand not sickness, as if it were a greater evil than it is; but observe how great a mercy it is…Our sickness and death are sent by the same love that sent us a Saviour, and sent us the powerful preachers of his word, and sent us his Spirit, and secretly and sweetly changed our hearts, and knit them to himself in love; which gave us a life of precious mercies for our souls and bodies, and has promised to give us life eternal; and shall we think, that he now intends us any harm? Cannot he turn this also to our good, as he has done many an affliction which we have complained about?"

Martyn Whittock

Date posted: 6 Nov 2024

Donald Trump has become the only person – other than Grover Cleveland (president 1885–89 and 1893–97) – to serve non-consecutive presidential terms in the USA.

This has occurred less than four years since the apparent collapse of his political fortunes in the aftermath of January 6th, when it looked like the Republican Party might turn its back on the Trump years and reinstate a more familiar kind of conservative politics. But the reliance on the Make America Great Again (MAGA) base (whose support for Trump remained strong) proved too valuable to risk alienating. So, they were reconciled to Trump.

David Robertson

Date posted: 22 Feb 2025

I have a confession to make. I actually like listening to political speeches — at least the good ones.

But in recent years the quality of political speeches has rapidly declined; I can remember speeches by Tony Benn, Alex Salmond, Michael Gove, Margaret Thatcher, Michael Foot, Ronald Regan, George Galloway, Dennis Skinner and Charles Kennedy. But it’s been a long time since I have heard a speech that I would regard as culture-changing — or perhaps emblematic of a culture change. Until just recently. For there is no doubt that JD Vance’s speech to the Munich conference was a game-changer.

Esmond Birnie

Date posted: 17 Sep 2025

In 1828 the so-called “Tariff of Abominations” was enacted by the US Congress. The reference to abominations indicated just how fraught and divisive the legislative process had been.

Additionally, the use of such an Old Testament word was no accident. For much of the 19th Century and even into the early 20th Century it was second nature for American politicians and electorates to consider questions of government policy within a Biblical frame.

Dave Brennan

Date posted: 21 Nov 2024

'The slaughter of so many millions of unborn children in the West in the last few decades is one of the great blind spots of our decaying culture,' (en Editorial, September).

Indeed it is – and in the East.

Kirsten Birkett

Date posted: 15 Oct 2024

I read recently that farmers, who have made up the majority of the world population for millennia, have all but disappeared from Europe ‘in the blink of an eye’.

Up to the mid twentieth century almost half the working population was involved in food production in European countries – now it has fallen to single percentage figures. It has been replaced by large-scale agribusiness, with vast amounts of land farmed by a small number of landowners. It has resulted in much more food being produced, much more efficiently. It has also been ‘heavily subsidised, economically unjust, and ecologically disastrous, in a climate-threatened economy of shortages, destabilised supply chains, growing economic protectionism, and degradation of soils all over the world’. ^[1]

Kay Morgan-Gurr

Date posted: 1 Oct 2024

Have you ever had anyone come up to you and say, ‘I’d rather be dead than be like you’?

I have, numerous times! Apparently, people would rather be dead because they can’t see why anyone could want to be alive if they use a wheelchair. And it’s not just physical disability - there are many people who have the same view of autism.