By Sam Hailes2025-01-29T08:38:00
!Audacious has grown from nothing to become one of the largest churches in the country. But is bigger always better? The church’s senior pastor and national leader of Assemblies of God in the UK tells all
Born in Manchester to Welsh parents, by the time Glyn Barrett was a student, he was living on the other side of the world. “Australia is an amazing place,” he says with a smile. “It has something called the sun.”
But despite the golden beaches, Glyn returned home in obedience to a prophetic word that said: “You’ll go back to England, you’ll plant a church and you’ll lead Assemblies of God in Great Britain.” Huge dreams for a 21-year-old and yet, in time, each has come to pass.
2025-08-28T12:54:00Z By Nick Page
The problem with Christianity in the UK is that we’re looking in the wrong direction, says Nick Page. It’s time to stop assuming our brothers and sisters across the pond have all the answers, and look to the example of Christians in the Majority World
2025-08-28T09:46:00Z By James Lawrence
Bible Society research has claimed there’s a new openness toward Christian faith. With many turning up at church services uninvited, James Lawrence explores how we can make the most of this new opportunity
2025-08-28T09:05:00Z By Anna-Maria Poku
Beth Allison Barr is reclaiming the role of the pastor’s wife. With honesty and hope, she invites the Church to think differently about women in leadership, says our reviewer
2025-09-01T12:42:00Z By Sam Hailes
Many Black Christian women are praying for Christian husbands who, statistically speaking, will never arrive. And the Church is partly to blame. That’s the controversial idea at the heart of Alan Charles’ new play Why Didn’t I Get Married? Sam Hailes spoke to him to find out more
2025-08-28T11:22:00Z By Muyiwa Olarewaju
He’s been scrutinised as intensely as he’s been celebrated but for Kirk Franklin, however painful, the criticism comes with the calling. The 20-time Grammy winner opens up about the toll of ministry, the traumas he’s still healing from and why his faith feels truer than ever
2025-08-22T14:31:00Z By Tony Wilson
Dr Gwen Adshead has spent more than three decades going into prisons and secure settings, including the infamous Broadmoor Hospital, working with people who have committed violent criminal offences. She talks to Tony Wilson about evil, justice and rehabilitation – and why revenge is not an emotion that humans can afford to indulge
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