The inside track – Joel Edwards, Strategic Advisor

We’d like to introduce Joel Edwards, our new Strategic Advisor. Joel is a former director of the Evangelical Alliance, an advisory member on faith at the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, and is currently studying for a PhD.

Thanks for taking the time to talk to us! So what brought you to CSW?

I’ve admired CSW’s work for years, but it was my doctoral studies that brought me here. CSW has an unusual combination of working for Christians who suffer for their faith, through advocacy at the highest levels, with prayer driving everything.

And what will you be doing?

I hope to help the UK Church on its journey as it finds out more about how to respond to the challenges of religious freedom.

Finally, where do you hope to see CSW go in the next three years?

I’d like to see CSW expand its prophetic role in educating the UK Church about religious freedom. Human rights is the lingua franca of the 21st century, so we can’t hope to help persecuted Christians without engaging in the world of human rights.

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