Next year will certainly be a holy year of religious tradition, but it cannot be called a jubilee in the biblical sense.
In a straightforward style, Stéphane Lauzet describes the steps different streams of evangelicalism in France did to create the National Council of Evangelical Christians. “They put aside their preconceptions and recognised their common faith”.
The evangelical church of O Grove to celebrate 100 years of Protestant presence in the town with various activities.
In preaching, whichever camp you choose to set up your homiletical tent in, be sure to benefit from what is good about the other group too.
The Shem Tov Bible, written in 1312 featuring Jewish, Christian, and Islamic artistic styles, “is an essential piece of religious history”, experts say.
What amazing growth has happened both in YWAM and the majority world church in these past fifty-plus years!
Paralympics are declaring to the world that social value and human dignity are not rooted in physical perfection.
Common decency says we should not liken anything today to 1930’s Germany. In light of what has happened recently and what may lie ahead, maybe it would be wiser if we did.
We must be incarnational, engaging in civil society and promoting social cohesion as peacemakers while revealing the hope of the kingdom in Christ.
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Throughout the centuries, Christianity and the Olympic Games have had an ambivalent relationship. For good reasons. But today Christians have come to see major sports gatherings as God-given opportunities for evangelism.
Lausanne Movement celebrates its 50th anniversary with an online meeting. “Conviction, faith and unity are key to look forward”, said its executive director.
It may be that the turbulent times stir previously comfortable hearts to a new level of openness. When those moments come, we must offer Jesus to a needy world.
Today, we live in a world of indolence that strengthens people with sinister agendas, whatever their ideology or religion may be.
The instinct to withdraw into isolationism and nationalism is understandable, yet it plays into the hands of authoritarian, anti-democratic forces.
Why do people assume that the freedom of speech and of religion will persist when those asserting their power are committed to a different morality?
Keir Starmer’s parents reportedly named him after Keir Hardie, the radical Christian co-founder of the Labour Party. Unlike Hardie, the new UK prime minister belongs to the 37% of Brits who tick the ‘no religion’ box.
I don’t want to condemn the church in the 1930s without acknowledging how easily cowed the church in the 2020s might prove to be.
Christians in Africa are largely still working out what it means to be a Christian and an African at the same time.
For those of us who have grown up so familiar with stories and images of the cross, we are not shocked, horrified and repulsed by the reality it represented.
The Balkan Christians must navigate the complex dynamics of nationalism while preserving the Gospel's inclusive and transforming message.
Political leaders support a course on Protestantism and democratic freedoms. The new democratic memory law “will include the Spanish Protestants”.
The pulpit is not a soapbox; we have something much more important to proclaim. But let us not live in ignorance of what is happening in the world around us.
One emphasis Millard made in his talks is that archaeology provides valuable information that can be used to deepen our knowledge of the Bible.
What can evangelical voices offer to supplement or correct what ordinary Ukrainians think about their national identity? What special contribution can they make?
There are so many parallels between then and now. What could and should the pastors do in a society that is leaning in a dangerous direction?
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