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Letter

Evangelical civil war

Date posted: 4 Oct 2024

Dear Editor,

The article on page 17 of the August issue of en is most timely. It relates to ‘avoiding evangelical civil war’ and, as well as being based on Biblical teaching, is intensely practical as to how we relate to each other.

Letter

Keeping Sunday special

Date posted: 2 Oct 2024

Dear Editor,

I have followed with interest the Christian media coverage of the story of Eric Liddell – e.g. Graham Daniel’s article in the August issue of your paper as well as his enthusiastic lecture at Keswick, BBC Songs of Praise, BBC4 Sunday Worship as well as extensive comment on Chariots of Fire. It seems that all are agreed in their admiration of this ‘man of Christian principle’.

Letter

Enlightening articles

Date posted: 26 Sep 2024

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.

Letter

US election

Date posted: 26 Sep 2024

Dear Editor,

While agreeing with seven points raised by Richard Morgan in his article ‘If you’re a Bible-believing evangelical Christian, you WILL vote for Trump’ in the September edition of en, it seems to me that, sadly, American Christians must feel completely disenfranchised with what is on offer in their November elections.

Letter

English prejudices

Date posted: 25 Sep 2024

Dear Editor,

My wife and I really enjoyed Rachel Jones’ article: ‘American blind spots are challenging my own’ in the August edition of en

Letter

Polyamory & euthanasia

Date posted: 11 Sep 2024

Dear Editor,

Thanks to Andrew Bunt for alerting us in the August issue of en to the rise and acceptance of polyamorous relationships.

Letter

Justin Welby: blind leading the blind

Date posted: 5 Sep 2024

Dear Editor,

In response to Robert Grieve’s letter in the August issue of en concerning Justin Welby, somebody recently asked Justin if gay sex was a sin. He could not give a straight answer. This is the blind leading the blind.

Letter

Abuse hidden in darkness: damaging trust

Date posted: 3 Sep 2024

Dear Editor,

I could not agree more with your correspondent on hidden abuse (July en). It is the cover-up, lies and deceit that follow the original abuse which damages our faith and trust in the Christian church most.

Letter

Evangelical unity

Date posted: 27 Aug 2024

Dear Editor,

Andy Mason recognises the importance of unity amongst conservative evangelicals in the August issue of en.

Letter

Training men for ministry: encouraging 'one man ministry'

Date posted: 22 Aug 2024

Dear Editor,

I am encouraged by the response to my Open Letter which you recently published [en June]. I have received considerable feedback personally, all of which has been entirely in agreement and supportive, and which comes from across the spectrum of the generations. This is not an issue on which older men are criticising the younger generation, as has been presented. I am also encouraged because it has, at least, stirred up a discussion, something which can only be good.

Letter

Training men for ministry: in a post-Christian nation

Date posted: 22 Aug 2024

Dear Editor,

I read John Brand’s letter June (en 2024) concerning training men for pastoral ministry with interest. The Church of England have recently reported that those seeking ‘vocations’ are 40% down on the 650 they had hoped for – I suspect en’s regular readers will have a good idea why that is, but I doubt that the CofE will publicly recognise the reasons! I only foresee that shortfall increasing as they continue in their apostasy.

Letter

Training men for ministry: more correspondence

Date posted: 18 Jul 2024

Dear Editor,

Evangelicals Now recently published an open letter from John Brand, principal of Edinburgh Bible College. It’s addressed to 'church leaders training men for ministry.' Well, that kind of sounds like me, so I hope that John and en will accept an open letter in response from those of us seeking to train future pastors.

Letter

Training men for ministry: learning from mistakes

Date posted: 17 Jul 2024

Dear Editor,

We've been concerned by the recent correspondence from John Brand and David J. Randall, lamenting the lack of young ministers willing to preach three times every week.

Letter

Children & smartphones

Date posted: 17 Jul 2024

Dear Editor,

Thank you for Glyn Harrison’s wake-up call in the June issue of en, ‘Social media and our children’ on page 15. After clearly sounding the alarm, Glyn concludes by asking: ‘And what are we going to do about it now?’

Letter

Reform UK

Date posted: 17 Jul 2024

Dear Editor,

I was disappointed to see such scant coverage of Reform UK in your election coverage.

Letter

Evangelical arrogance

Date posted: 17 Jul 2024

Dear Editor,

I am very grateful for Michael Reeves thoughtful article on evangelical arrogance in the June issue of en.

Letter

Justin Welby

Date posted: 17 Jul 2024

Dear Editor,

I confess I was surprised and dismayed on reading the news article by Rebecca Chapman about Justin Welby in the May issue of en.

Letter

Middle East complexities

Date posted: 1 Jul 2024

Dear Editor,

I was heartened to see Joseph Steinberg’s Biblically insightful and well-balanced article on page 23 of the May edition of en, especially after reading Iain Taylor’s piece on page 11 which unfortunately seems to imply that the Israeli army (and by extension Israel) is responsible for the decline of Christianity in Gaza. 

Letter

Abuse hidden in darkness

Date posted: 1 Jul 2024

Dear Editor,

I write as someone who loves Jesus, whose life has been shaped through faithful Bible preaching. In recent years my faith has also been significantly damaged by abuse in a church setting, the subsequent handling and hiding of the truth. The isolation and inability to trust church leaders is soul crushing. Many victims of abuse in our churches have been caused to fall. We can’t be Christians in isolation, yet churches have been places of hurt.

Letter

Training men for ministry

Date posted: 1 Jul 2024

Dear Editor,

John Brand’s ‘open letter’ in the June issue of en raises significant issues about the need for healthy training of committed men for the preaching and pastoral ministry.

Letter

Trump’s stable era

Date posted: 1 Jun 2024

Dear Editor,

I agree with Keith Jowitt’s letter in the April en, pointing out the unbalanced nature of Martyn Whittock’s attack on Trump and his supporters. One might have hoped that en would provide a more nuanced article in response. Instead, in the April issue we find a piece by Dave Burke joining in the fashionable trend of Trump-bashing.