California wildfires: ‘God is at work in disaster’
Milla Ling-Davies
Date posted: 23 Jan 2025
As wildfires continue to blaze across Southern California, razing homes, schools and churches to the ground, local churches have been pulling together to lament, pray and provide relief – seeing God at work amid the tragedy.
The first and largest wildfire in California broke out on 7 January in the Pacific Palisades and was quickly followed by four more that same week – in Eaton, Hurst, Lidia and Kenneth. With 100 mph winds whipping up the fires, churches across the region reported extensive damage.
Ten questions with Hannah Mitchell
en staff
Date posted: 8 Sep 2025
Hannah Mitchell is the Children and Youth Worker at Pontrhydyrun Baptist Church, Cwmbran and is a member of the Evangelical Movement of Wales Management Board.
1. How did you become a Christian?
The Cross: Atonement, controversy & victory
Dan Strange
Date posted: 20 Aug 2025
In the last few weeks there's been a flurry of on-line activity over John Mark Comer's comments on Instagram concerning Andrew Remington Rillera's book "Lamb of the Free", writes Dr Dan Strange, Director of the Crosslands Forum.
Comer posted: "One of the most important academic books I've read in years. Next I'll read rebuttals, but this seems to be the final Biblical / exegetical knock out blow to PSA [Penal Substitutionary Atonement]."
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Energy, emissions, and the choice of Boaz
Paul Kunert
Date posted: 8 Jun 2025
Energy, and how we produce it, is the key to a stable climate. Three quarters of emissions come from energy production. Get energy right, and we’ve broken the back of it. So, the latest Global Energy Review report from the highly regarded International Energy Agency is a vital health check. What’s happening to energy demand? How are we producing it? Does the arc of emissions bend toward zero?
According to the report, the answers to those questions are: one, it’s going up; two, increasingly from renewables; and three, either no or only slowly. Now, I know it’s hard to engage with numbers and percentages. So, here are just two headlines. In 2024, global energy demand rose by 2.2%. And carbon emissions rose by 0.8%. Behind those headlines is a mixed story. On the plus side, most of the growth came from wind and solar energy. In fact, 40% of all energy now comes from low carbon renewables and nuclear. But on the minus side, use of gas, oil and coal also rose, and carbon emissions are still going up, when we need them to be going down (fast).
God is using migration to fulfil His mission
Chris Howles
Date posted: 6 Mar 2025
There can be few topics more likely to canvass votes, generate clicks, or provoke vigorous and sometimes heated discussions than that of international migration in the world today.
And perhaps for good reason, for not many people or places are unaffected by this issue. Indeed some already speculate that the 21st century will in time be known as ‘The Century of Migration’.