A British church leader has described in public what happened when his congregation stopped running almost everything it did. Writing in Premier Christianity, Derek Hughes recounts arriving as the leader
Has the worship song quietly become a kind of sacrament? That was the pointed question animating a two-day gathering of worship scholars at Belmont University in Nashville this summer,
Brian Doerksen, the Canadian worship leader and songwriter behind some of the most widely sung contemporary hymns in the global church, has died at the age of 60. His catalogue
The number of theology and religious studies departments in the United Kingdom has halved over the past two decades, with the University of Exeter the latest Russell Group institution to
Worship leader and songwriter Matt Redman has renewed his long-running call for closer collaboration between worship leaders and theologians, arguing that congregational songs too often prioritise musical appeal over
A May 2026 whitepaper by WWES founder Rev. Teemu J. Lehtonen argues that churches planted by WWES graduates across Africa share the free evangelical family's DNA — and maps the path toward formal connection.
In June 2025, the IFFEC Executive Committee issued a public statement addressing global conflicts — calling on political leaders, and calling free evangelical churches to be places of reconciliation.
An EFCA leader's April 2026 essay on pastoral vitality argues that the health of the whole movement flows from the health of its pastors — a conviction that shapes how free churches approach pastoral care and formation.
With Canada receiving over 471,000 new permanent residents in a single year and similar demographic shifts underway across Western Europe, WWES proposes a practical model: the "umbrella church.
WWES argues that Western churches have fundamentally misread the arrival of immigrant congregations. Rather than treating newcomer churches as guests requiring hospitality, he proposes "reverse missiology": recognising these
Moscow Theological Seminary was founded in 1993 on a Western residential model — and promptly struggled with empty dormitories and insufficient enrolment. In 2007 it reintegrated its Soviet-era correspondence programme
Eighty-five per cent of evangelical pastors worldwide have no formal theological education. In Africa, where Christianity has grown from 10 million to over 600 million believers in a century,