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Letter

Let’s call a spade a spade

Date posted: 12 Nov 2024

Dear Editor,

Have you noticed how people like to find fancy names to make ordinary things seem more special? For example, I have seen a window cleaner described as a Transparent Wall Maintenance Engineer, and did you know that the role of Education Centre Nourishment Consultant refers to what I once knew as a dinner lady!

Letter

Trump dismay

Date posted: 4 Nov 2024

Dear Editor,

What a helpful set of articles you gave us for the UK general election earlier this year – thank you!

Letter

Spiritual abuse

Date posted: 3 Nov 2024

Dear Editor,

Over the years, I have read with great interest the articles you have published covering the issues of abuse and spiritual abuse in the evangelical context.

Letter

Surprised & disappointed

Date posted: 1 Nov 2024

Dear Editor,

Having read both volumes of Henri l’Église et des Blocher’s La doctrine de sacrements, I was surprised and disappointed to read (in your October 2024 issue) Leonardo de Chirico’s article ‘A new theological critique of Roman Catholicism.’

Letter

Christian Nationalism

Date posted: 30 Oct 2024

Dear Editor,

Thank you en for alerting us to the dangers of ‘Christian Nationalism’. [Jim Sayers: en October 2024]

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Shallowness & flippancy

Date posted: 28 Oct 2024

Dear Editor,

Julia Cameron (whose wise words I always appreciate) writes of what amounts to a revival in the evangelical wing of the Cof E during the late 1960s and early ’70s (Timothy Dudley-Smith: A life in three the scenes, en September 2024). With greatest of respect I have to ask: ‘Really?’

Letter

Causes of poverty?

Date posted: 26 Oct 2024

Dear Editor,

Iain Taylor’s disturbing report on poverty, in the October issue of en, highlights rocketing rent and energy costs as major factors. Would surging immigration and panicking net zero driven by a progressive but comfortable middle class have anything to do with this?

Letter

Inclusion of people with special needs

Date posted: 24 Oct 2024

Dear Editor,

I was heartened to read Kay Morgan-Gurr’s recent article on inclusion on the en website (‘Churches and accessibility: time to change’). How the church welcomes, cares for, and disciples those with additional needs is, in my view, one of the great challenges of this generation. It’s personal for me as a parent of three children, two of whom are neurodiverse. But it’s also a pastoral concern.

Letter

7th October anniversary

Date posted: 23 Oct 2024

Dear Editor,

On the anniversary of the Israel/Gaza slaughter of Jews [by Hamas] and, learning that 9% of the 18–24 year olds in the UK are sympathetic to the Gaza/Hamas/ Hezbollah regimes, I am surprised how quiet pulpits have been on the topic, explaining why [some] Muslims turn to the cruellest of violence.

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

Songs and meditations

Date posted: 20 Sep 2024

Dear Editor,

My name is Heather Cowan. My husband and I have raised four children and most of the last forty years were either members/supporters of Above Bar Church, Southampton. 

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.

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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.

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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.