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Could tweeting Bible verses land you in jail?
As a result, she was investigated under the Finnish Criminal Code for the offence of “ethnic agitation” which could result in imprisonment for up to two years. The investigation by the prosecutors also drew in a pamphlet that she had written in 2004 on human sexuality for a Christian foundation.…
Danny Webster
Student Vote '22 event
The hustings covered four key areas, featuring an audience poll for each topic and ending with an open Q&A from the floor. Education We asked the crowd to vote via the app, on the question: “As a student, how satisfied are you that you are getting value for money in your university…
Richard Martin
Learning another way
Alongside working with women addressing inequality and sexual and gender-based violence, Tearfund – a Christian international development charity – is training men up to be Gender Champions. These are often local church leaders, who bravely challenge men and boys’ beliefs, behaviours and actions.…
Prabu Deepan
Trying to go it alone in mission? Don’t!
“For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.” (1 Corinthians 12:12) As Christians, we have been called to be bold participants in the missio dei, God’s mission for the world. This great commission is not about…
Natasha Klukach
Speak Life Foundry: Discipling young people in their creativity and evangelism
“It’s an adjective,” I whisper to myself, “not a noun”. Maybe that makes me sound square and stiff and old, but I work with a lot of them. Young creative types, that is. You know, photographers and graphic designers and more “spoken word” artists than you could emphatically shake. A Stick. At. In…
Nate Morgan Locke
Poverty in the UK: what the church can do now
There are currently 14.5 million people in poverty in the UK according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. This is 22 per cent of the UK population, equivalent to 15 people on an average double-decker bus being in a financially vulnerable position. But poverty is not just about numbers; it affects…
Juliette Flach
What kind of Messiah?
And as we read the events of Holy Week, it is with this same excitement that the crowds eventually greet Jesus on His entry into Jerusalem. “Hosanna!” they shout, meaning praise –but simultaneously ‘Lord, save us’. The Jewish people had been waiting hundreds of years for a chosen one, a rescuer,…
Emma Sowden
"Taking back control of our borders", but at what cost?
Journalists were briefed late last night of a possible scheme where asylum seekers who arrive in the UK would be sent 6,000 miles to Rwanda to be processed. The home secretary Priti Patel later tweeted a picture of her stepping off the plane in Kigali, Rwanda, writing, “...a significant moment for…
Alicia Edmund
What kind of news? | Being Human
Catch Emma on this week’s quick take as she reminds us of a different kind of news, one that transforms despair into hope.
NOW CLOSED Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill consultation
Through the Gender Recognition Act (GRA) it is possible for those diagnosed with gender dysphoria and over 18 to legally change their gender. Transgender adults can apply to what is a called a 'Gender Recognition Panel' to change their birth certificate (and receive what is known as a gender…
Brave and kind
It was 2019 and I had been sensing very profoundly that, if I got the role, I was going to need to be extremely brave to handle the season that lay ahead and to stand firm on God’s word in the face of so much opposition. This was not to be foolhardy bravery in isolation, it had to be coupled with…
Gavin Calver
What can the gospel heart of Ruth teach us about asylum seekers?
On Maundy Thursday, the government announced a scheme that would see asylum seekers flown to Rwanda in East Africa, to be processed there, as part of its immigration policy to tackle unlawful entry into the UK. This has caused outrage from the public for various reasons. Complexity and…
Rev Dr Israel Oluwole Olofinjana
Countdown to the Northern Ireland assembly elections
My Twitter feed is inundated with tweets from candidates out pounding the streets in sensible shoes, knocking on doors, and canvassing for every vote they can gain. They are all making the most of social media reels to let us know about the issues that they are hearing about again and again at the…
Danielle McElhinney
*NOW CLOSED* Respond to the Education Workforce Council (Wales) consultation
The ‘New registration categories for the Education Workforce Council’ is a piece of legislation that will affect hundreds of churches across Wales if it passes in it’s current form. Welsh Government is looking to increase the number of youth workers who are registered for the Education Workforce…
