There was consternation and turmoil amongst the staff of Barnabas Aid UK when we heard about the charity’s pro-LGBTQ stance and the job adverts that did not even require the applicant to be a Christian. Some of us were in deep shock. We could not understand how such a change of ethos could occur. We…

This post is to make you aware of some changes at Barnabas Aid UK and Barnabas Aid International (formerly called Nexcus). Barnabas used to be a Biblically conservative organisation.  But things have changed under the leadership of Colin Bloom, who took charge in April 2024. It has now become an inclusive organisation, whose staff may…

Dear Barnabas supporter,  This note summarises the shocking problems which have occurred at the Barnabas Group of charities since Colin Bloom took over in April. It then asks you to write one simple letter which could make all the difference in solving the issues.  Colin Bloom’s ruinous failings The Daily Telegraph has already published four…

Will you help save the Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life?  Will you pray and act to preserve its vital ministry to train and equip Christian leaders from the Global South, especially those who are poor and marginalised? Great peril threatens the specialist library in Pewsey, UK, used by hundreds of OCRPL students around…

OCRPL, including its undergraduate wing The Shepherd’s Academy, is in grave danger.  Will you help save the Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life?  Will you pray and act to preserve its vital ministry to train and equip Christian leaders from the Global South, especially those who are poor and marginalised? In February this year came…