Found 3 articles matching 'quiet revival'.
‘Civilizational erasure’ and Evangelicalism’s future
Paul Yeulett
Date posted: 3 Feb 2026
Some of us will remember the old Orange mobile phone advert from the turn of the millennium: “The future’s bright, the future’s Orange.” The future did not, as it turned out, belong to Orange. But can it still be bright?
There is no doubt that Britain, like many of its neighbours, is afflicted by several overlapping crises. Pause for a moment and consider the state of our hospitals, our schools, our prisons, our armed forces, our borders, our economy, our collective mental health, and our social cohesion, and the picture becomes clear enough. And all this before we turn to the present condition of the Church of England. The skies all around us seem to be darkening. Recent remarks from the White House about “civilisational erasure” in Europe prompted the predictable response: what manner of incendiary rhetoric is this? Yet one cannot help wondering whether the proverbial frog in the water is quite as comfortable as it imagines, unaware that the temperature is still rising.
Ten questions with Ken Brownell
en staff
Date posted: 1 Feb 2026
Ken Brownell is the retired Senior Pastor of East London Tabernacle Baptist Church in Mile End, London.
- How did you become a Christian?
I was brought up in a Christian home in the Boston, Massachusetts, area. I very clearly remember a conversation when I was seven with my parents about the gospel that led to me later that evening asking Christ to forgive me my sins. Ever since then I have known that I was a Christian. I was baptised at 13 in the Brethren assembly my family attended.
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‘Civilizational erasure’ and Evangelicalism’s future
Some of us will remember the old Orange mobile phone advert from the turn of the millennium: “The future’s bright, the future’s Orange.” The future did not, as it turned out, belong to Orange. But can it still be bright?
There is no doubt that Britain, like many of its neighbours, is afflicted by several overlapping crises. Pause for a moment and consider the state of our hospitals, our schools, our prisons, our armed forces, our borders, our economy, our collective mental health, and our social cohesion, and the picture becomes clear enough. And all this before we turn to the present condition of the Church of England. The skies all around us seem to be darkening. Recent remarks from the White House about “civilisational erasure” in Europe prompted the predictable response: what manner of incendiary rhetoric is this? Yet one cannot help wondering whether the proverbial frog in the water is quite as comfortable as it imagines, unaware that the temperature is still rising.