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.
Harvest fields in Ethiopia
Katherine Rushen
Date posted: 1 May 2016
Dear en,
We were absolutely thrilled to read the article on the front page of the February issue of
en, ‘Is there revival in Ethiopia?’
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.
The Third Degree
Students reach students
Kate Duncan
Date posted: 1 Apr 2016
Kate Duncan and relay worker Joanna Robertson share five ways
Over the last three months, more than 38,000 students have attended a university Christian Union mission week event.
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.
news in brief
Africa: ministry begun
The ship Logos Hope has begun its ministry in Africa, it was reported in March.
The vision for Africa is to raise up 5,000 African missionaries to reach the continent with the gospel by 2025. Working with OM Africa in each country, Logos Hope aims to be a catalyst to motivate the church and mobilise 1,000 African people into mission during its visit. 2016 will be strategic in making an impact. During the year, Logos Hope plans to visit 20 ports in 15 African countries.
Essex: reach, build & send
Vicky Hartwell
Date posted: 1 May 2016
130 women from several churches across Essex gathered at Danbury Mission near Chelmsford on 12 March for their annual regional Women’s Conference.
Those who attended were challenged by teaching on ‘Loving Father, Son and Spirit’, from speaker Sharon James, author of God’s Design For Women and social analyst for the Christian Institute.
Knowing God Better
Becoming like God’s Son
Jonathan Lamb
Date posted: 1 May 2016
I remember the evening vividly.
A frail old man, walking stick in hand and supported by a friend, slowly climbed the steps to the Keswick platform and onwards to the lectern. During his life, he had spoken on every continent of the world, to multiple thousands in baseball stadia, to hundreds in church buildings of every denomination, to congregations gathered under trees and at many student missions.
Archbishop won’t talk to me
Lisa Nolland
Date posted: 1 Jun 2016
Recently I asked to meet the Archbishop of Canterbury (ABC), and received a negative response (you can read the full letter at the end of the article).
In particular I wanted to introduce Dr Mike Davidson to the ABC. Mike is ex-gay and his organisation, CORE, helps those wanting to move out of homosexuality pursue their aims through psychological and (sometimes) pastoral support. The ABC has met many interested parties; has he met groups like CORE? He readily refers to the ‘LGBTI’; what about ex-gays? If ‘it is paramount that no voice is unheard’, why the omission?
Sectarian murder on British streets
Anthony McRoy
Date posted: 1 Jun 2016
Years ago, people would have assumed a sectarian murder in Glasgow was a product of the Orange-Green divide – perhaps an overspill from the Ulster Troubles, or football hooliganism by RC Celtic supporters against Protestant Rangers’ fans or vice versa.
Few, if any, would have identified it with the murder of a member of the Ahmadiyya sect by a Sunni Muslim – but this is the face of modern Britain.
BRUSSELS SPROUTS NEW CHURCH
Naomi Pilgrem
Date posted: 1 Apr 2016
Brussels is the centre of the European Union around which the debate about Britain’s membership is raging.
God has his people in that city and a new church plant began recently. Naomi Pilgrem takes up the story. ‘Why do we need another church? Our church is small and there aren’t enough of us as it is!’
Sudan: new GAFCON province bishop
Chris Sugden
Date posted: 1 Apr 2016
Canon Precious Omuku from Nigeria, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Adviser on Anglican Communion Affairs and seconded from the Anglican Communion Office, was consecrated assistant bishop in Juba, South Sudan, in a televised ceremony on 3 January at the age of 68.
Bishop Omuku will remain in London as a special envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury and be an international advocate for the Anglican Province of Sudan and South Sudan.
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.
Mary contrary
John Brand
Date posted: 1 May 2016
Book Review
ARE WE TOGETHER?
A Protestant Analyzes Roman Catholicism
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Pray for Scotland
John Brand
Date posted: 1 May 2016
Dear Friends,
Please could I use your letter section to rally
Christians throughout the UK to be much in
prayer for Scotland in these days. The nation
that used to be known as the ‘land of the book’,
i.e. the Bible, is now in peril of judgment.
C.A.R.: support required
Christian Solidarity Worldwide
Date posted: 1 May 2016
Marie-Thérèse Keita-Bocoum,
the UN
independent expert on the Central African
Republic (CAR), called on the international
community
to continue supporting
the
country as newly elected President Faustin
Archange Touadéra (a Christian) took office
on 25 March.
In a statement to the UN Human Rights
Council (HRC) in Geneva on 22 March following her recent visit to CAR, Ms Keita-Bocoum applauded the progress achieved by
the Transitional Government
and UN
Peacekeeping Mission with the support of
the international community, and noted that
the presidential and legislative elections held
in December 2015 and February 2016 were
largely
free,
fair and
relatively peaceful.
However, Ms Keita-Bocoum
said:
‘There
have been great steps taken, but the next six
months are vital.’
Lausanne and true truth
Ranald Macaulay
Date posted: 1 May 2016
Dear en,
I was thankful for Chris Wright’s gentle
corrective in the April edition. I should have
expressed more appreciation for The Cape
Town Commitment because it is full of helpful
affirmations and observations.
EMF: goodbye/hello
EMF
Date posted: 1 May 2016
The European Mission Fellowship (EMF)
held a special farewell and welcome service
on 12 March at Welwyn Evangelical Church
in Hertfordshire.
They said goodbye to outgoing director
Martin Leech, who later this year will take up
a pastorate
in Australia. Those being welcomed were Martin’s replacement Ian Parry,
founding pastor of The Bay Church
in
Cardiff,
and Steven Bowers, pastor of
Cornerstone Church
in Brighouse, West Yorkshire. Steven is taking up a new post as
assistant director with responsibility for running the headquarters and administration.
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.
