Sam Hailes

3 weeks ago | premierchristianity.com | Sam Hailes

Joe Rigney has authored a much-discussed new book entitled The Sin of Empathy. He defends his thesis to Sam Hailes If I were to list the fifty biggest problems facing the Church today, I don’t think ‘too much empathy’ would make the cut. But Idaho-based pastor Joe Rigney disagrees. His provocative new book is entitled The Sin of Empathy (Canon Press) and claims empathy is “the greatest rhetorical tool of manipulation in the 21st century”.

4 weeks ago | premierchristianity.com | Sam Hailes

After a life-long battle with anxiety, worship leader Elle Limebear is showing fear the door. As she releases her boldest music to date, the daughter of Delirious? frontman Martin Smith opens up about prophetic words, how she accidentally rewrote her father’s classic worship song and what touring the world is really like Elle Limebear was destined to sing – and that isn’t journalistic hyperbole. In 1997, as then-Delirious?

4 weeks ago | premierchristianity.com | Sam Hailes

Inspired by the parable of the talents, Phil and Wendy Wall MBE distributed free cash at major Christian festivals. Twenty-five years on, they reflect on the many lives changed because of it With a twinkle in his eye, Phil Wall tells me about the life-changing words he said to his wife, Wendy, during a long-distance telephone call in April 1997. “I’ve fallen in love with another woman, can I bring her home, please?” The request wasn’t as offensive as it first appears.

1 month ago | premierchristianity.com | Sam Hailes

A Chosen People Ministries survey has claimed one third of British Christians endorse antisemitic tropes such as “The Jews talk too much about the Holocaust”. Sam Hailes looks at the research Source: REUTERS/Susannah Ireland The news has felt remarkably dark in recent days. Earlier this week a man admitted shooting dead his mother and two siblings in Luton. Last week 1,000 women shared their stories of being raped, abused and harassed while serving in the British military.

1 month ago | premierchristianity.com | Sam Hailes

Calum Mackenzie grew up in a Christian family, but walked away from faith while at university. During the next 22 years he tried everything the world could offer, but nothing seemed to satisfy him. Until one day, a desperate expletive-laden prayer changed everything My dad was a criminal and football hooligan who spent time in prison. He was a drunk and very verbally abusive. But when I was six years old, a Christian – who was also a former criminal – gave him John’s Gospel.