Whitewashed virtue
Dr Sanjee Perera, a research fellow at the University of Birmingham, gave a keynote talk titled, ‘Where have all the black saints gone?’ at this October’s Christian Resources Exhibition (CRE)…
Gospel message comes to Pompey
J John kicks off another JustOne campaign POPULAR evangelist J John’s successful ‘JustOne’ outreach initiative has already united churches and drawn crowds to large arenas in London, Kent and Belfast.…
Estate agents forego roof over head to help homeless
WHAT DO three bank staff, four insurance brokers, three estate agents and three ministers of religion have in common? They all slept outside in five degrees to raise money for…
Judges hear of eternal judgement
DIGNITARIES in their Sunday best heard an unmistakeable Gospel message at a Judges Service. The annual event, usually a rather dry occasion, was given new life by West Sussex High…
Sun, sand and sharing Jesus
Life was a beach mission for Rachel Cary this summer ALTHOUGH I’D SIGNED UP FOR a week’s beach outreach this August, I was still slightly apprehensive about spending a week…
The only vicar left in Iraq
Meet the brave successor to Canon Andrew White ON 25 OCTOBER 2009, SUICIDE bombers killed 150 people on the streets outside St George’s Church in Baghdad, injuring 600 more. Faez…
Too much, too young: mum’s battle against LGBT lessons
A CHRISTIAN MOTHER HAS LAUNCHED her own grassroots campaign to warn parents about the government’s latest graphic sex and relationship lessons. Susan Mason, a freelance accountant from Surrey, launched the…
The faith factor
Born-again Christian Lauren Davis (pictured here in 2015) gained a shock victory at Wimbledon this year, beating defending champion Angelique Kerber in the second round. The 25-year-old American has been…
Beating knives from death to life
Christian author and activist Shane Claiborne (pictured with Rev Dr Sally Mann, spokesperson for Red Letter Christians UK) joined hundreds of East London youngsters and adults to find a better…
Exposing warriors in Warwickshire
Brave the wilds of the Warwickshire countryside and you’ll find Christians making fires and foraging for food as part of a spiritual warfare course. Bushcraft expert Mark Kirby, 43, regularly…
“God’s land army”
This is the prayer group backing Jen Gaskin, centre (hands clasped together) in her initiative to encourage prayer all round Britain’s coastline on 21 September. “Let’s not forget we are…
Jesus took me over a threshold
Joan Daniel, 94, stopped breathing for 17 minutes after pre-operative drugs caused a heart attack before a gynaecological procedure in 1980. The grandmother of seven from Romsey, Hampshire, told HEART,…
“Life from the dead” for a pastor and for our nation?
A well known pastor and prayer leader recently died in hospital, but revived following intense prayer from his daughter and church. Prayer leader Pastor Brenda Taylor reported, “He was in…
I died and met the God I’d run from all my life
Since 2009, when Crystal McVea was clinically dead for nine minutes, she has told her story to Christian and secular TV stations, and has written a book. The married mother…
‘Modern-day resurrection’
The story of John Smith, a 14-year-old boy who experienced a ‘modern day resurrection’ after being dragged lifeless from a frozen lake has been made into a 2019 Hollywood film,…