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Dear Editor,

In recent editions of en, the word “secularism” has cropped up many times. I led the track on secularism at the Lausanne Congress in Seoul in September 2024, and we worked on a model of analysis which I think clarifies the issues.

Dear Editor,

It was a joy to read Wallace Benn’s article on questioning whether we are only willing to follow Jesus up to a point. He asks if faithfulness to the Word of God and the gospel of Christ is at stake are we willing to lose everything and look to God to vindicate that?

Dear Editor,

Please forgive a note to clarify some potentially damaging confusion in recommending churches for people moving abroad.

Dear Editor,

I thank God for the life of Terry Puttick, whose promotion to glory was announced in the December print edition of en [and also published online here]. Terry was my team leader and Director at London City Mission for over ten years. He was a man of passion, compassion and wisdom, with a deep love for the lost.

Dear Editor,

Thanks as ever for the recent print issue of Evangelicals Now.

Dear Editor,

I am writing in response to the article “Islam growing faster than Christianity worldwide” posted on the en website on 11 July, about the recent Pew Centre report on the current and future comparative (competing) growth of worldwide faiths. The immediately urgent question for all Christian leaders is: “When are we all going to respond to this very serious situation worldwide and stop doing traditional evangelism and discipling “our way” (just like Frank Sinatra’s song!), and start doing it God’s way? (As in Hudson Taylor’s sentiment: God’s work, done God’s way, will never lack resources!)

Dear Editor,

I read with interest Jon Barrett’s article “Is our apologetics ‘frightfully early 2000s, darling’?” I fully agree that there has been a big shift in the kinds of questions that people are asking – something that I have observed first hand during the 200+ mission weeks I’ve spoken at in universities around the UK and the rest of Europe over the last 20 years.

Dear Editor,

Thank you to Ann Culley (May en) for her moving letter on singleness and life after mission work. Her words resonated deeply with me. As a child, I felt called to mission, believing it meant overseas service. Instead, I’ve served in the NHS since 2011.

Dear Editor,

An en reader wrote recently: “I’m interested to know why there is very little training of Christians in general,” (en letters, March 2025). Great question! It hasn’t always been thus; in the church’s history there have been times when intensive training for all believers – not just for pastors and leaders – has been a high priority. Knowing God is an eternal and joyful task, and being learners and lovers of God is core to our identity as His people.

Dear Editor,

How I appreciated the article sent in by Rani Joshi on being single (March en). I am a retired, female, missionary who was (I think) well cared for by my church while serving overseas. Since I have returned it’s been quite different.

Dear Editor,

I’m interested to know why there is very little training of Christians in general. What do I mean? I cannot remember ever seeing a course on how to read the Bible well, that is open to everyone. There are many courses out there and they all seem to have the mantra – for ministry leaders and teachers. Why is there this unspoken belief that those who are going to teach are the only ones worth teaching? I, personally, would welcome a course on different methods of tackling the study of the Bible. I am never going to teach anyone, I'm not gifted that way. But I still wish to get as much from my Bible study as I can, so I can grow in my faith.

Dear Editor,

I have just been reading your September issue on the aeroplane travelling to speak at a mission in Kosovo. I am so pleased I have done this. Two articles especially have spoken to me directly as I prepare to share the gospel.

Dear Editor,

I greatly appreciated David Robertson’s forthright feature on the Church of Scotland’s decline It (September en). particularly grieves me too because of the debt my family owe to Scottish missionaries who came out to South Africa to help shepherd my Dutch-Afrikaner ancestors, scattered to the interior by overbearing British rule in Cape Town.

Dear Editor,

Just a quick note to thank you for Andrew Marsay’s piece ‘How can we think deeply about Islam?’ in the July issue of en. I thought this was an excellent article and Andrew did a great job packing so much into a short space.

Dear Editor,

David Robertson (en March), poses the very relevant question of why many Christians today are so concerned about being ‘nice’. Robertson Biblically demonstrates the case at appropriate times, for preaching the gospel extremely vigorously. It is also obvious there would be no Christianity today without Christ’s unwavering mission stance and likewise that of His steadfast followers down the succeeding ages, whether Catholics or Protestants.

Dear Editor,

David Robertson (en March) poses the very relevant question of why many Christians today are so concerned about being ‘nice’. Robertson Biblically demonstrates the case, at appropriate times, for preaching the gospel extremely vigorously. It is also obvious there would be no Christianity today without Christ’s unwavering mission stance and likewise that of His steadfast followers down the succeeding ages, whether Catholics or Protestants.

Dear Editor,

Most of the discussions around unity in faith and life for Christians currently revolves around ethical issues specially, in this season, to do with gender or indeed the teaching of the Holy Scriptures on male and female, as the divinely ordained context for marriage and sexual relations. Such attention to the ethical content of our faith is deserved, because after all Jesus did not mince words: ‘Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them’ (John 14: 23).