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Produced to resource the mission community, Encounters Mission Ezine is a topical mission magazine / mission journal published online every two months.
The Government's Climate Change Bill will create a new framework for tackling climate change, which is to be welcomed. However the proposals have several weaknesses. If you agree that climate change is too urgent to take this risk, please consider writing to your MP urgently. See this briefing from the Baptist Union's Joint Public Issues Team.
BUGB's Wale Hudson-Roberts sheds some light on the scale of the challenge facing the church in helping young people find a redemptive alternative to a life of violence.
The Baptist Union of Great Britain, the
Methodist Church and the United Reformed
Church have welcomed the Government's
support for a complete ban on cluster bombs.
www.alternativeworship.org aims to provide you with a point of contact for alternative worship and emerging church sites worldwide.
Labyrinth is an interactive installation for spiritual journeys. It's for anyone who wants a break from surfing the surface of culture to contemplate the deeper things of life.
Join GodTube, the world's largest online Christian community. Watch an example here, then share, upload Christian videos and join the social network.
WordLive allows you to step into a multi-media Bible reading experience and deepen your relationship with God.
Inspire is one of the UK's biggest reach monthly magazines going FREE to churches.
Reel Issues gives you stimulating group materials to discuss the latest talked-about films in the light of the Bible.
SecretBelievers.org 
is an open doorway into the lives of actual Christians living in hiding because they have been disowned, attacked, and threatened by family and friends. These Secret Believers live in the Muslim world. They are real people with hurts, desires, and hopes just like you.
Integral mission, Jesus style: theological reflection from Justin Thacker of Evangelical Alliance.
i-church is an online Christian community under the pastoral care of the Bishop of Oxford. It is part of the Church of England.
Click here for recent edition of Ecocongregation newsletter.
The Christian Council on Ageing is a Christian voice calling for action on issues that matter to older people in church and society.
Breathe is a Christian Network for Simpler Living.
Just Church is a free programme for use by churches, Christian groups and ecumenical bodies. It's designed to help you embed a concern for poverty and social justice issues in the life of your community.
A Word in Time:daily Bible study linked to the Methodist Prayer Handbook.
Churches urge leadership against 'unequal' trade
Planned European Union economic agreements with developing nations could ‘undermine recent progress towards making poverty history’, senior denominational and development agency leaders believe. Saying they were ‘compelled’ to act by ‘a biblical understanding of justice’, the group used The Times letters page to urge the Government to lead a change in EU thinking on economic partnership agreements (EPAs). Launched five years ago, the EPAs have failed to be ‘development-friendly’, the group says. Instead, they are forcing ‘free-trade agreements between very unequal partners’, the letter says. The group, which includes the UK leaders of the Methodist, United Reformed and Baptist Union churches, urges the Government to find alternatives to forcing developing countries to open their markets prematurely.
The Money Revolution helps you apply Christian principles to handling your money. Whether we are comfortable, broke, or somewhere in between, we all have questions about money.
As the church continues to work towards Ecocongregation status, check out our green page. Then please send an email or letter telling the Secretary of State for the Environment what you want the new Climate Change law to include.
RESTORE is a project of Birmingham Churches Together seeking to welcome and support refugees and asylum seekers.
Don't go grim this Halloween: welcome to the campaign that is reclaiming Halloween from the supermarkets. There is a choice for parents, teachers and children.
Support Net gently approaches various issues through real-life stories and insights from people who’ve experienced these situations themselves.
DIY, Chocolate and the Resurrection - Statistics on the Knowledge and Celebration of Easter from EA.
The message of Blow the Whistle focuses on the fact that 2007 is midway towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. In the year 2000 the UK and other world leaders made a commitment to achieving these goals and through blowing the whistle at half-time, we are urging government to play its part, holding it to account and saying we care about the poor and want to see justice done for them.
Celebrating Marriage is a project of CARE for Education to equip schools to deliver marriage education for pupils and teachers, parents and their children.
Meaning and value for believer and unbeliever alike - quotes on Easter from inside and outside the faith.
Don't be Derek: come on down......to Tearfund’s Church climate change challenge.
The Commission on the Future of Volunteering is developing a long-term vision for volunteering in England as a legacy of the Year of the Volunteer 2005.
Did you make a new year's resolution to read your Bible more? Use this guide from oneyearbibleonline.com to enjoy it right through in a year.
A 'tiny drop in the ocean' (BBC News) About 4,000 trafficked women are working as prostitutes. A safe house for trafficked sex workers has opened its doors to victims set up by a Catholic nun.
Crucial questions for evangelicals: an interview with John Stott.
West Midlands School of Christian Ministry
10 month - part time bible course
Rediscovering Palestine is a group of charities and organisations working in a variety of ways towards peace with justice in Palestine and Israel.
Faithful Cities commission on urban life and faith.
New Life online news
Play the Climate Change Pentathlon to find out how to clean up your lifestyle.
The Climate of Poverty: facts, fears and hope, new Christian Aid report
Crucible will run three intensive training weekends each year to equip Christians to create church on the margins, at the Baptist International Mission Centre in Selly Oak.
Workshop is an exciting Christian learning experience designed to encourage and strengthen you on your spiritual journey in today’s fast-paced, constantly changing, ever demanding world, based at
Baptist Times weekly news
Ethics Daily American Baptist news and views
Surefish (Christian Aid)
Premier Radio music and talk
London Institute for Contemporary Christianity equipping the church to engage with the issues that matter
Christianity monthly magazine
Greenbelt Festival held every August Bank Holiday that some of us have been going to longer than we care to remember! Still cutting edge
Faithworks empowering every local church to develop their role at the hub of their community
Bearwood Baptist Church is affiliated to the Evangelical Alliance
The Christian Century monthly magazine
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