Need help responding to New Age spirituality?
Emily Pollok
Date posted: 13 Oct 2026
The Evangelical Alliance is helping Christians to navigate the world of New Age spirituality, crystals, and tarot as they seek to share the gospel in an increasingly spiritually-curious culture.
In a free, 36-page booklet available online or in print, the Alliance attempts to define New Age spirituality while offering a Biblical perspective as well as some suggested pastoral and evangelistic responses.
Norfolk: ‘Every time we feel like giving up - something happens’
Lydia Houghton
Date posted: 12 Oct 2026
Six years into its existence, a Norfolk Christian fellowship in an area “lacking” in gospel churches has tripled in size.
Briston Christian Fellowship (BCF) – in the village of Briston near Holt in North Norfolk – began with four individuals meeting in a house and now consists of 12 regulars who meet in a community room.
Christian youth holidays: Squeezed but growing!
Lydia Houghton
Date posted: 11 Oct 2026
The principal of a youth holidays organisation says greater choice is partly responsible for a decline in numbers.
Organisations such as the Church Pastoral Aid Society (CPAS), Scripture Union and West Runton “built a tradition later joined by festivals and family conventions,” Tim Friend, of Ventures and Falcons (CPAS’s camps for 8–18 year-olds), explained. “Overall numbers on holidays have fallen in recent decades, partly because churches now have so much more choice for their young people.”
Tony hits the sweet spot
en staff
Date posted: 10 Oct 2026
Speaker Tony Cannon hit the sweet spot when he spoke at this year’s Junior Anglican Evangelical Conference (JAEC) at King’s Park Conference Centre, Northampton.
Cannon was presented with some aptly-named Tony’s Chocolonely chocolates in appreciation for his endeavours by Lee Gatiss, Director of Church Society, which arranged the event. Designed specifically for lay or ordained men and women exploring ministry, currently in training, in curacies, or in their early years of incumbency, it aims to support those wanting to be positively evangelical and positively Anglican, providing space for Bible teaching, seminars, and fellowship. Cannon is Church Society Regional Director.
More Biblically orthodox candidates stand in vital CofE vote
en staff
Date posted: 9 Oct 2026
More Biblically orthodox candidates are standing in the current "tightly contested" elections for the Church of England's ruling body, a leading evangelical says.
John Dunnett, the National Director of the Church of England Evangelical Council (CEEC), says the crucial ballot is also serving to "unify" and "galvanise" those holding to the Church of England’s Scriptural foundations.
Welsh evangelicals ‘to professionalise’
Lydia Houghton
Date posted: 9 Oct 2026
The Evangelical Movement of Wales’ (EMW) new director wants the organisation to have a “robust plan” and to “professionalise” its work.
Alun Ebenezer believes that Christians have a commitment to excellence which, he says, involves planning. “The apostle Paul didn’t just wander around the Middle East,” Ebenezer said. “He had a strategy. Moses was strategic. The whole plan of salvation is – it was planned. So, I want to have a proper robust plan for the EMW over the next three, five years. And I want everyone to know what they’re doing within that plan.”
Bishop Rob Munro defends involvement in CofE
Milla Ling-Davies
Date posted: 8 Oct 2026
Conservative evangelical Bishop of Ebbsfleet Rob Munro has defended his continued involvement in the Church of England, saying Christians should follow Jesus’ example.
Writing in a new article, Dangerous Dividings?, Munro warns evangelicals against disunity and “contending with each other more than proclaiming and embodying the grace of the gospel”.
Franklin Graham to Manchester: ‘We each have a date with death’
Milla Ling-Davies
Date posted: 5 Oct 2026
On Saturday, Franklin Graham, American missionary and son of evangelist Billy Graham, preached a stark message of judgement to thousands gathered in Manchester.
The event on 3 October came as part of Graham’s evangelistic “God Loves You” tour. The Co-op Live Arena was filled with 10,400 people representing an estimated 600 churches across the region, according to the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA).
Historic church gets new life after years as nightclub
Emily Pollok
Date posted: 5 Oct 2026
A historic church building in Scotland, previously used as a nightclub and cinema, is undergoing renovations so it can be used by worshippers once again.
St. David’s Bathgate, located in the West Lothian region between Edinburgh and Glasgow, was built in 1905 but closed its doors a century later in 2007 due to congregational decline.
Ireland: Arrests in safeguarding probe
Nicola Laver
Date posted: 4 Oct 2026
Two arrests have been made in connection by police investigating safeguarding failures in the Presbyterian Church of Ireland (PCI).
The development comes several months after the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) opened a criminal investigation following significant safeguarding failings within the all-Ireland PCI were revealed. So far, 127 individuals have come forward to the police.
Supply of pastors may be insufficient – claim
Milla Ling-Davies
Date posted: 3 Oct 2026
What is happening to the pipeline of future pastors?
With claims of fewer than 15 conservative evangelicals training for ministry across Scotland and falling numbers at one of England’s leading theological colleges, the supply of future ministers is proving difficult to read.
Easy-to-read Bible launched in the UK
James Patterson
Date posted: 1 Oct 2026
The EasyEnglish Bible has been published in print in the UK for the first time.
Produced by the charity MissionAssist and written in simple language, the EasyEnglish Bible is designed for those whose first language is not English or who struggle to read, such as those with dyslexia.
Parliamentarians: ‘Healthy male role models needed’
Nicola Laver
Date posted: 30 Sep 2026
Parliamentarians have emphasised that boys and young men need fathers, amid increasing concerns around the threat of the “manosphere”.
The topic was debated at Westminster Hall earlier this September, though there was no specific mention of Biblical foundations to fatherhood, manhood or family structures.
ReNew 2026: Focus on people before plans
Simon Byrne
Date posted: 29 Sep 2026
Against a backdrop of continuing uncertainty over the future shape of orthodox Anglican ministry, Chairman Kieran Bush has urged delegates at this years' ReNew conference to see the harvest before trying to answer every strategic question.
ReNew, the network bringing together conservative evangelical Anglicans from within the Church of England and beyond, gathered in Nottingham for its annual two-day conference under the theme: "Lord, teach us to pray".
New Keller book is launched
Ellelein Kirk
Date posted: 28 Sep 2026
A new book by Michael Keller, written with material from his late father Tim Keller, has been launched at Westminster Chapel in London.
The event, to publicise The Stories We Live By was co-hosted by the London Project (part of City to City UK, a component of a wider global movement initiated by Tim Keller aimed at mentoring new ministry leaders and spreading gospel movements) and Hodder Faith (a leading UK Christian publishing imprint that produces Bibles, theology books, Christian lifestyle guides and similar material).
New ‘abortuary’ offers round the clock foetal killing
Nicola Laver
Date posted: 26 Sep 2026
A state-of-the-art, purpose-built abortion clinic has opened in Birmingham to meet what major abortion provider MSI Reproductive Choices says is a “rising demand” for surgical abortion.
The Christian Institute has called it “sickening” and it has also been branded an “abortuary”.
Reformed confessions of faith celebrated
Jonathan Winch
Date posted: 24 Sep 2026
Westminster Seminary UK has marked its relocation to Oxford in a particularly appropriate way: with four days immersed in the Westminster Standards.
Founded in 2013, the Presbyterian seminary exists to train pastors who are “committed to holding fast to the faithful Word of God and compelled to proclaim Christ everywhere”. And from its beginnings in Newcastle, it has grown in size, influence and reach, its alumni serving churches across the UK and Europe. Recently it relocated to Union House in St Michael’s Street, Oxford, a historic building adjacent to North Gate Hall, home to Oxford Presbyterian Church.
