The Alpha Course phenomenon is popping up in Palm Beach County as an evangelism tool for churches and Christian ministries. I’ve been Christian my whole life, however, my church in Delray Beach ...

At an Alpha training conference in Detroit, a dozen people came forward to testify to the power of the Alpha program. One couple had been close to divorce when they encountered Alpha. The course ...

Phillip Meagher knew Peoria Heights Congregational needed help. When Meagher was hired in 1997, the 94-year-old United Church of Christ congregation in central Illinois was shrinking. Only four adults ...

Gerard Long is a Christian, but that doesn’t mean he likes religion. “Religion is man’s effort to create God in their own image,” said Long, the executive director of Bannockburn-based Alpha USA, the ...

BRECKENRIDGE – People interested in exploring Christianity or wanting to brush up on the basics can attend a series of 10, free ALPHA courses beginning Monday at St. John the Episcopal Church in ...

There are now some 30,000 Alpha courses running around the world, say organisers. Sessions are held in prisons, workplaces, schools, colleges and military establishments. Around 7,000 UK churches are ...

ALPHA was a short faith formation course at Holy Trinity Brompton, an Anglican parish in London, when Nicky Gumbel, then the church's curate, transformed it into a course designed to introduce those ...

For Jim Markle, Alpha was a lifesaver. For years, drugs had been ruining his life. He first experimented at age 8 and had been using ever since. Sometimes a bout of success would quench his substance ...