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  • January 25, 2015
    WEA and WCC discuss renewed global church collaboration

    Representatives of the World Evangelical Alliance and the World Council of Churches have met to explore possible areas of future cooperation.

  • March 26, 2013
    Evangelicalism reconsidered on 'Beyond Belief'

    Ekklesia's co-director Jonathan Bartley appeared on BBC Radio 4's 'Beyond Belief' programme on Monday 25 March 2013, discussing the history, nature and challenges of (and to) evangelicalism within Christianity.

  • August 27, 2012
    Multi-site churches replacing mega-churches in the USA

    The number of US congregations that host worship services at more than one physical location has grown to more than 5,000 in the last decade.

  • February 16, 2012
    French evangelical Christianity is on the rise

    According to census figures, some 600,000 French residents are members of evangelical churches, with 460,000 regularly practicing; a ten-fold increase on 1950.

  • August 2, 2011
    Memories of John Stott

    Though I ended up disagreeing with him fairly significantly on pacifism, the interpretation of the atonement, homosexuality and capital punishment, I remain grateful beyond words for the life, work and example of evangelical Anglican leader John R W Stott, who died aged 90 last week.

  • August 2, 2011
    Tributes pour in for British evangelical leader John Stott

    Tributes from from Christians of widely differing backgrounds across the world have been pouring in for British evangelical leader John Stott, who died last week.

  • March 7, 2011
    Hell's Bell author fires up evangelicals

    A Michigan based pastor-author is stirring up a heated debate about hell among his fellow American evangelicals, says Martin Marty. In a curious way it shows that evangelicalism's theology as well as its politics can still attract a response from wider, often baffled, publics.

  • May 5, 2010
    Religion and the general election

    The role of religion in the general election is far from straightforward. Politicians and the media need to recognise the diversity of religious engagement with politics on a much wider range of issues than they sometimes seem to notice.

  • February 2, 2010
    Jim Wallis on values and Wall Street

    In the past, US social and political commentators overlooked revivalism as a source of radical critique of society, says Martin Marty. Now we need to notice that it is the radical evangelicalism of Jim Wallis and Sojourners which is offering a moral and values-based challenge to 'capitalist economics as usual'.

  • September 17, 2009
    US conference will look at impact of evangelicalism in C21st

    Ten leading evangelical theologians of the 21st century will be plenary speakers at a major US conference addressing the role of evangelicals in the public square this Autumn.