Evangelism UK

Graham Cray on John 17

Bishop Graham Cray, leader of Fresh Expressions, spoke on John 17 about mission and unity, see http://www.cte.org.uk/Articles/288216/Churches_Together_in/Working_Together/Evangelisation/National_Initiatives/Graham_Cray_on.aspx

Krish Kandiah on Evangelism

Krish Kandiah from the Evangelical Alliance has writen about evangelism in Christianity magazine: http://www.christianitymagazine.co.uk/features/evangelism.aspx

Evangelism edition of Christianity magazine

This month Christianity magazine explores evangelism through various articles, see: http://www.christianitymagazine.co.uk/

Humanist survey about belief

This survey hit the headlines about numbers of people with religious belief in relation to the census questions, see: http://www.humanism.org.uk/news/view/771

Christianity website launch ariticle

An article about the launch of the website www.christianity.org.uk has been posted at http://www.cte.org.uk/Publisher/Article.aspx?ID=228831. This can be used by magazine and web editors.

Church attendance in the papers

Christian Research have been quoted in two national newspapers recently about church attendance decline 'bottoming out', see:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7992616/Churchgoing-stabilises-after-years-of-decline-research-shows.html

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/sep/10/religion-christianity?showallcomments=true#end-of-comments

 

WCC Evangelism consultant's blog articles

John Baxter Brown has started posting articles on the blog site he has started as part of his work for the World Council; of Churches, see: http://www.oikoumene.org/programmes/unity-mission-evangelism-and-spirituality/mission-and-unity/evangelism-blog.html

'Mixed economy' explored re FX

The Fresh Expressions newsletter explores 'Partnership' refers to an article about the principle of 'mixed economy' see: http://www.sharetheguide.org/section1/mixedeconomy

Encounters on the Edge: Rural Cafe Church

The latest Encounters on the Edge magazine covers the 'Rural Cafe Church' theme: http://www.churcharmy.org.uk/ms/sc/encounters/sfc_issue45.aspx

Priest manages farmers market on a Sunday

Jonny Baker writes about Tony Cant, and Anglican priest who has taken on the manager role of the local Sunday Farmers Market to engage in the local community: http://jonnybaker.blogs.com/jonnybaker/2009/12/church-on-the-high-st.html

SA Commissioner: priority is making disciples and growing saints

Setting out the priority for the Salvation Army in the UK and Republic of Ireland, Commissioner John Matear re-affirms evangelism as the core work for the new year: http://www1.salvationarmy.org.uk/uki/www_uki.nsf/vw-dynamic-index/8C8C17675D4BDF0980257537003835E4?Opendocument

Fritha Wheeler reflects on Hope08

Fritha Wheeler was the admin name behind Hope08 and reflects on her experience on: http://www.sharetheguide.org/

'Mission in Unity': where are we now?

Jim Currin reflects on recent interviews by national church leaders on Mission in Unity ... and Unity in Mission: http://www.gfe.org.uk/MissioninUnity.htm

Bible Society articles on 'Sin' today

The latest edition of The Bible in Transmission from the Bible Society contains a number of detailed articles and reflections from key writers on the current thelogical debates about 'sin' and the place it has in people's thinking today. It can be obtained as a download from:

http://www.biblesociety.org.uk/l3.php?id=311

Evangelisation and Islam

Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali has raised the issue of evangelisation, Islam, and values in society, in an interview ahead of a forthcoming proposal to discuss converting Muslims in the Church of England General Synod which has been in the media spotlight for the past few days. For the Nazir Ali interview see:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2028638/Church-of-England-row-over-Muslim-conversion.html

'Blair does God' interview

The 'Theos' website, promoting Christian faith in the public square have a number of new articles including a link for the interview with Tony Blair and his aim to spend the rest of his life promoting understanding between the world's religions. This is particularly interesting in the light of the the current discussion about evangelisation and Islam from Bp Nazir Ali. Anyway, for the Blair interview see:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/may/30/tonyblair.religion

Sprint newsletter from RUN

The latest newsltter from Reaching the Unchurched network, Sprint, has details of the June conference with Brian McLaren, together with articles about Men and Generation Y. RUN is a resource network with lots of member churches, some of whom tell their story of growth and effective evangelism. Anyway the link for the latest Sprint magazine is:

http://www.run.org.uk/sprint/sprintmaghome.aspx