Your Views

Dear Editor,

The issue of temptation and sin is relevant to every Christian every day in this age. So it is really important we are clear on how they relate. Thank you for giving space to this issue.

Dear Editor,

As a Church of England (CofE) vicar ordained in 1995, I increasingly despair at the direction in which the Church I love appears to be travelling.

Dear Editor,

In his article, “Have we lost the art of discipleship?”, Roy Summers notes “our obsession with the academy” and the separation of teaching from the life of the teacher. The warning is needed, although some formal instruction is inevitable. Might this have happened, alongside questions and answers, in the lecture hall of Tyrannus (Acts 19v9)? And could the Sermon on the Mount have been a set text for new disciples? Then, for homework, how about setting students the task of finding “texts Jesus must have used” on the road to Emmaus?

Dear Editor,

With regard to the July article about Franklin Graham, and the September response by Charles Gardner, I suggest we should be extremely cautious about thinking we can know what God is doing on the world political stage at any time in the gospel era. We just don’t know, and might be very surprised were we to know.

Dear Editor,

How can we avoid an evangelical celebrity culture? (Faith & Life column, October en)

Dear Editor,

It was very interesting to read Karen Soole’s article referring to Keir Starmer’s apology for forced adoptions. Although adoption for both Karen and her adoptive parents was positive, I am saddened that there was so little mention of the person who made it all possible – her birth mother.

Dear Editor,

With reference to your Comment, en August 2026, about congregational singing. This resonated with me, but even more could be said. I won’t comment on the quality of the poetry or tune – or the degree of repetition in modern songs; that is an individual judgement.

Dear Editor,

The article: “Stop apologising for being a complementarian!” (en online, May 2026) got me thinking – I am pretty sure I have never heard anyone apologise for being a complementarian.

Dear Editor,

Rhys Laverty writes (en September 2026) that Christians should seek the repeal or replacement of the Equality Act 2010. I disagree, as the Act is not about “forcing equality of outcome” but rather is seeking a level playing field for more people to access services and participate in society. Christians have long campaigned for better conditions for children in factories, accommodation, care and education.

Dear Editor,

It will soon be ten years since 2 February 2017, when Channel 4 News exposed John Smyth’s abuse of boys and young men.

Dear Editor,

I am shocked and saddened by the tone of Tony Bennett’s article (July en) criticising Franklin Graham’s support of President Trump and questioning whether evangelicals should back his forthcoming rally in Manchester.

Dear Editor,

As someone who isn’t gay or bi but has had many friends who are, I want to express strong support for what Andy Robinson wrote in the last issue of en about temptation to homosexual practice (as well as for the good work he and Living Out do).

Dear Editor,

In 1967 (I am a very old man) I was teaching Physics in a multi-ethnic, English medium school in Miri, in Borneo. Some of the students came from remote, recently become Christian, longhouses, travelling down-river maybe for two weeks to get to the school — no roads in the jungle in those days. One day, two of the Christian Union lads asked me a question.

Dear Editor,

I have just read the article by Peter Adam in August’s en. I just want to share my appreciation and thank you for publishing it. Superbly written and well timed! I will be sharing it with my peers. Love en! Keep up the good work! Thank you for all that you do!

Dear Editor,

While we were grateful for the coverage that en gave in January, February and March this year to Life ’26 mission, I must express disappointment with your negative presentation of it last month. Your article, entitled “Nationwide mission brings mixed results”, followed the publication of our Insights & Impact Interim report.

Dear Editor,

It was good to see the article by Becca Nunes in June 2026 en, giving advice on a Christian approach to art.

Dear Editor,

Much as I recognise the debt the evangelical church owes to MLJ, I do get concerned when he becomes so revered he appears almost beyond criticism or contradiction. In the last of the series of articles about him (en, June 2026), Adam Ramsay quoted Bob Horn, who wrote that he (Bob Horn) “disputed all such minimisations [of MLJ]”; Horn referred to him as “The Gospel Lion”, who had “a far bigger mind than any who played him up or put him down...[he was] bigger than them all. That was his greatness...”

Dear Editor,

In the current (June) edition of en, the writer of the South Asian interchange article states: “Sunnis believe in ‘Ali’ and Shias in Muhammed”.