Put yourselves, if you can, in the shoes of one of their parents: your home has been destroyed, your village invaded, and one or more of your children have been kidnapped by the invaders.

The United Nations has designated August 22 each year as its International Day Commemorating Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief. This should be an important day on the Christian calendar.

The EEA calls upon Christians across Europe to join in International Prayer Day for Ukraine on Sunday, 24 August 2025, coinciding with the country’s Independence Day.

The multicultural context of Britain means that we cannot develop the theology of nationhood in isolation from migrant communities and identities.

Trump and Putin show a clear instinct to return to a world in which strong rulers dominate the political stage.

A distinguished scholar shows how responses to secularism must depend on the culture.

Mission among indigenous Portuguese in a land of cultural Christianity.

Some preachers use the text as a launching point – they read the text and then preach an associated thought from their own thinking or theology.

The week of July 28 to August 3, Rome was filled with groups of young people from all over the world. I followed in particular the meetings of Roman Catholic influencers, the Italian and North American groups, and the final vigil with the Pope.

Snoopy has become a popular culture icon. His author, Charles Schulz (1922-2000) had an interesting relationship with evangelical faith.

It is necessary to carry out the mission in a sensitive and strategic way, taking into account the context of the housing crisis.

A city in southern Spain has banned the use of public places for religious ceremonies such as the feast of the lamb. A leader of the Spanish Evangelical Alliance believes that several lessons can be learned from this mistake.

What enables Ukrainians—bombed, displaced, bereaved—to continue believing, rebuilding, resisting, and praying? How does hope survive such devastation?

According to the North Caucasian Evangelical Alliance, at the beginning of 2024, substantial groups of locals in almost every ethnic group in the Russian part of the Caucasus professed faith in Jesus.

As Christian leaders, we have the opportunity—and the responsibility—to create environments where rest is natural, where disconnecting is not interpreted as disinterest, where people don’t have to earn their worth by working themselves to exhaustion.

There is an expectation that Pope Leo will be able to exert an attraction from Protestantism towards Roman Catholicism in American society. 

The idea that mental illness and disease are caused by invisible energies or ancestral curses is not biblical. Christian ethics and moral theology emphasise personal responsibility, human dignity, and relational restoration rather than inherited guilt.

From the independence in 1991 to the ongoing war sparked by Russia’s invasion, Ukraine’s efforts to recover and assert its true history have become acts of resistance, healing, and hope.

If we simply instruct people how to behave and act like Christians, then they will co-opt and corrupt that instruction to serve their incurvedness.

The origin story of the church in Europe is a story of the “translation” of the Christian gospel into Europe’s indigenous cultures.

We must resist the urge to turn our churches into cozy clubs for the converted, and focus on bringing gospel transformation to those within and outside the church walls. 

Between 1933 and 1938, hundreds of Ukraine’s brightest minds were executed, imprisoned, or forced into silence. The regime targeted the very idea of Ukrainian identity.

It remains one of the most painful taboos within faith communities.

I consider Christian nationalism a form of idolatry, because it elevates one’s nation to a position that should be reserved for God.

Let the type of writing influence your type of preaching. Seek to do what it does, as well as say what it says.