How evangelical is the Pope?
Leonardo De Chirico
Date posted: 1 Dec 2016
Leonardo De Chirico uncovers the particular brand of Catholicism that Pope Francis advocates and gives a biblical assessment
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected as Pope Francis on 13 March, 2013.
The first Amen
Besa Shapllo
Date posted: 1 Nov 2016
The story of Besa Shapllo and Mission Possible in Albania
I was born in Tirana, Albania.
A sense of place
George Moody
Date posted: 1 Nov 2016
George Moody gets us thinking about the meaning of locality
Over 40% of buildings on the English Heritage at Risk Register are churches.
We’ll see him at the Re-Org
Gavin Dickson
Date posted: 1 Nov 2016
Gavin Dickson, SASRA Army Scripture Reader with some thoughts for Remembrance Sunday
There is a saying in the army when someone dies: ‘We’ll see him at the Re-Org’.
Prisons: from despair to hope
Glynn Jones
Date posted: 1 Oct 2016
Glynn Jones challenges us to get involved with the mission field in UK prisons
The facts of hopelessness for those in prison are stark.
Purchased with blood
Tom Marcus
Date posted: 1 Oct 2016
Tom Marcus suggests the relevance of the story of the early Ugandan and English martyrs for today
To understand the African bishops’ stand on homosexual practice today, it is helpful to remember the heroic early days of the Ugandan church.
Missionary marriages in trouble
Mike Peterson
Date posted: 1 Aug 2016
Mike Peterson asks: ‘That missionary family might be smiling in the photo on your fridge, but is their marriage hanging by a thread?’
I winced as the lights suddenly cut off.
A pair of shoes led me to Christ!
Randy Newman
Date posted: 1 Oct 2016
A quarter of a million Jewish people live in the UK – and this month, most of them will be celebrating Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. But for Randy Newman, author of Questioning Evangelism, it was this Jewish Festival that started his journey to faith in Christ. Everything changed when he looked down at his shoes…
I was born into a Jewish family in the suburbs of New York City.
The Shandong revival
Jonathan Bayes
Date posted: 1 Aug 2016
Jonathan Bayes with a little bit of history of the church in China during the 1930s to encourage us
Shandong is a coastal province in the north-east of mainland China.
The place of prayer
Peter Lewis
Date posted: 1 Aug 2016
Peter Lewis encourages us to realise that seeking God’s face is never a waste of time
It must have been a strange sight.
From death to life
Donald Morrison
Date posted: 1 Jul 2016
Donald Morrison reports on the precious life of a baby saved by the gracious intervening providence of God
How true the words of William Cowper.
The gospel on the Somme
As the country commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme we are enabled to read a believer’s diary
William Ransley left the Army in April 1889.
Wise as serpents?
Andrew Fellows
Date posted: 1 Jul 2016
Andrew Fellows, director of Christian Heritage Cambridge, asks what it means to be counter-cultural
To be a Christian is to be counter-cultural.
What is a nation?
Jim Sayers
Date posted: 1 Apr 2016
As the debate over the united nations of Europe floods our media, Jim Sayers asks a pertinent question.
2016 is the year for the people of Britain to think hard about nationhood.
Single women: when it goes wrong
Rebecca and Eleanor’s last piece on single women employed by churches and other ministries
In the last two months in en, we have given an overview of the findings of our research.
Lausanne & the polemical imperative
Ranald Macaulay
Date posted: 1 Mar 2016
Ranald Macaulay asks if the 1974 Congress missed something vital
When the Lausanne Congress opened in 1974 the global community was being treated to searing images of the Ethiopian famine.
Christ on the campus
Mindi Aleme
Date posted: 1 May 2016
Mindi Aleme tells us of a remarkable school which is deeply influencing missionary children in Ethiopia
When some think of Ethiopia, they think only of her poverty.
Extreme Christianity?
Matthew Roberts
Date posted: 1 May 2016
As the government ponders bringing the church into line with ‘British Values’, Matthew Roberts speaks up for radical faith
I have a confession to make. I am an extremist.
Paying female church staff?
Rebecca and Eleanor’s second article based on research among single Christian women working for churches and ministries
In last month’s en, we gave an overview of our findings concerning single women Christian workers.
WEST in Union
Michael Reeves
Date posted: 1 Feb 2016
There are big changes afoot for one of the UK’s independent theological colleges
On 12 January, WEST (Wales Evangelical School of Theology) announced that it is to transform into Union.
Five years after Cape Town
Julia Cameron
Date posted: 1 Feb 2016
Julia Cameron brings us up-to-date with the Lausanne Movement
It is five years this month since the Cape Town Commitment was published. In that time it has spread out widely, and down deeply, across the continents, in major and ‘minor’ languages.
Serving as a single woman
Rebecca and Eleanor investigate the joys and challenges of the unmarried Christian worker
Biblical Christianity values singleness like no other world religion.
When pastors play power games
Marl Meynell
Date posted: 1 Mar 2016
Mark Meynell says there is an urgency for the church to reflect on its use of power as much as on its teaching of truth.
You can’t see or even detect them… but that is precisely why riptides are so lethal.
Legal eagles
Gemma Adam
Date posted: 1 Apr 2016
Gemma Adam of FIEC Practical Services helps churches embrace legal responsibilities for the sake of the gospel
The legal system and the Word of God can sometimes seem entirely contrary.