After three years of research and preparation, The Christian Times, the unfolding of the vision started with the release of the first edition on 26th June 2009.

Through The Christian Times, the public receives a fresh way of viewing the world around them. We strongly believe that good news should feature on our news items and the cycle of negativity in our communities can be broken through unbiased reporting of the good that is happening among us.

Moreover, the strength of the Body of Christ is in its togetherness. The Christian Times is thus designed as a platform that will bring the different streams of Christian belief in the UK.  We aim to be one voice and an extra platform for unity, proclamation and mobilisation.

Now going for over 6 months,  The Christian Times’ team are still contacting industry, governmental and Christian leaders in preparation for a more wider distribution of this timely paper, and in unison with other christian news and communication agencies, will continue to bring a fresh voice to the nation at large.

What a melting pot! The UK is blessed to have such a diversity of Christian families and cultures. Yes, “strength in diversity”, panders the merchant of political correctness, but real strength comes in ‘united diversity’.

The unstoppable force of unity produces unseen power and fuels the creation of unseen ‘beings’; something new comes into existence when there is a coming together. The Christian Times serves as a platform of togetherness; full of independent and inter-denominational news, reports and events, cutting across cultures and races.

For example, the good work happening in an Assembly in Wales can be the motivation that an audience in Norwich needs and vice versa. Great work is being done in different circles, we are looking at bringing it all together on a unified platform.

Public Appeal

The success of this journey is rooted in our belief in the Body of Christ working together. We want to collaborate with the churches, agencies, organisations and passionate individuals who share this vision of togetherness.   The Christian Times looks forward to welcoming your cooperation. Together, we are making it happen!

The Christian Times is designed to meet the needs of both the Christian and non Christian reader.

The purpose of the newspaper is to report newsworthy events and activities within the local Christian community, nationwide and around the world, to increase the awareness of believers regarding the issues of today, to provide thought-provoking commentary to everyday events and mainstream news.

Contents include:

1. A comprehensive look at Christian News in the UK and around the world.
2. Reports on Christian Events.
3. Interviews with Business, Governmental and Christian Leaders.
4. A Christian perspective on different news in mainstream media.
5. Features by leading Christian journalists working in mainstream media.

We are providing the full angle on today’s news.

We’re getting the United Kingdom covered!

Using a vast network of churches, christian bookshops, libraries and newsagents, thousands of copies of The Christian Times are being made available to readers.

From January to March 2010, our goal is to get The Christian Times into more than 1000 UK outlets with special emphasis on churches. We recognise the role of the local church and want to work with church leaders all across the UK to get The Christian Times into the hands of the people.

Can you help get The Christian Times to a church near you? Please email admin@thechristiantimes.org  We aim to have the paper distributed free in churches with the church helping towards postage and packing [working out between 10-20 pounds depending on quantities required]. This enables us make The Christian Times freely available to christians in their local churches.

Designed to be an uplifting source of positive news and balanced reporting, The Christian Times is an important medium for both the Christian and non-Christian reader.

To get The Christian Times delivered to your outlets, please email us or use the contact form here

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Available from January – March 2010.

The Christian Times remains an efficient platform for ethical advertising in the UK. Our study shows a higher rate of readers’ trust for advertisers in The Christian Times.

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Our modern society is a paradox. On one hand, adrift and rudderless, seemingly lacking the sense of vision & adventure that was the hallmark of the 1960s and 70s, gripped by a sense of ennui that paralyses people with cynicism and world weariness.
On the other, we yearn for and many actually sign up to big ideas, as demonstrated by President Obama’s “change agenda” that motivated large tranches of the American population.  At the same time we are growing increasingly dependent upon others for our ideas.
Today’s young people are
increasingly happy to take other peoples’ opinions on board or unquestioningly trust organs like Wikipedia, eschewing the opportunity to discover facts for themselves, choosing rather the consumer pick and mix approach to information.
If you were to chart these trends what you would see is the
coalescing of people around big
coherent ideas.  The key is that these ideas are coherent, and this is the key that Western Christianity seems so patently to be lacking.  If you scan the world you can see the way in which organisations and religions are strategically using the media to put across ideas, perspectives and with increasingly aplomb world views.
Al Jazeera is a highly effective outlet for a specific strand of Islamic thinking, giving space and room to particular views and values and in the process allowing its viewers to subscribe to those ideas.  Viewers may come from different cultures, different lines of thinking, different backgrounds and yet they find common ground and cause around the views espoused by Al Jazeera.
Indeed there are documented examples of where Al Jazeera is so effective that you have the phenomenon of Christians actively aligning themselves with other faiths to criticise their Christian brothers and sisters, forgetting the travails of the Christian population in the countries they are aligning themselves with.
In contrast our mainstream media, newspaper, television and radio, here in the UK is incontrovertibly and unequivocally liberal, propounding a liberal worldly agenda that increasingly relegates people, such as Susan Boyle, to the status of a story, forgets that they are people and engages in a feeding frenzy around that story, regardless of who or what gets trampled on in the process.  There is no space for a right-wing voice, no room for an alternative view and no opportunity for the British public to reflect on a faith-based approach that presents internal and domestic news from a Biblical perspective.
In the interests of balanced reporting, an even-handed approach and for the opportunity for some to point out that the Emperor has no clothes, Great Britain desperately needs a daily news vehicle that will report, review, analyse and comment on the news.
Christians need a perspective that aligns with the central pillars of their faith as well as informs their decisions and opinions.
Some will not agree with everything presented, which is absolutely fine. The duty of news media is to report the news and leave the reader/viewer/listener to draw their own conclusions.  For those who are adequately informed such news media would simply serve as a litmus test.
However, for those looking for guidance, a provocative thought or simply an alternative view, such news media would stand distinct from any other news media as chalk is from cheese.
It must be admitted that we live in a time of transition.  If you believed the Pied Pipers of online media, the whole world is going on the web.  Well, it may make for a snappy sound bite for their PR purposes but the sad fact is that it simply isn’t true.  Yes newspaper circulations are falling but that is as much a factor of uninspired news reporting and celebrity focus as it is the move to the web.  The recent Daily Telegraph revelations over MP’s expenses had the effect of revitalising circulation, driving up sales figures in a sustained fashion.  It is clear that there is a distinct niche within the printed newspaper market for a clear, articulate voice that coherently and confidently puts across a Biblical perspective on the news.  The issue is not whether such a publication could commercially survive, rather it is whether or not a publication of this nature could maintain a clear, unhindered focus on reporting news with an unshakeable commitment to integrity, earning the respect and trust of its readers and witnessing to the redemptive potential of journalism.
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