What the Media Say
Less than six months after it was launched at the end of 2000, Christian Connection was featured on the front page of the Daily Telegraph, which in turn caused an international surge of interest. Since then, it has featured regularly across the media.
BBC Radio 4 Series on Internet Dating
Radio 4 recently broadcast an investigation into some of the ethics of the dating industry, from questionable emails to sites promoting adultery.
Click here to listen to the broadcast on the BBC website (15m 50s)
The follow up programme features an interview with Jackie Elton of Christian Connection speaking about the need for transparency in the dating industry.
Click here to listen to the broadcast on the BBC website (20m 38s)
Updated January 2012
National newspapers in the UK
Having met on the website Christian Connection just over a year ago, the couple realised that Kirsty went to church where Bruce’s father is the pastor...“We’re going to live until we’re 106 together,” says Bruce Kissell, a care-support worker, and Kirsty Reilly, a fashion and print designer, “and we’ll be very cross if we don’t make it that far.”
The Times
Speed dating has evidently hit the spot with liberals in the church. One woman priest said: "It is difficult to meet eligible Christian men. I'm in a small parish where I am unlikely to find a partner, so I have signed up."
(on CC Speed Dating) The Sunday Times
Christian Connection founded late last year, this dating service is exclusively for the UK's 300,000 single Christians who can email each other via the agency's website.
The Independent on Sunday Reality Magazine - 12th May 2001
An internet agency for Christians has been bombarded with pleas for help. More than 100 priests and priests-in-training, some of them women, have joined Christian Connection in the past year. Unlike other dating services, Christian Connection asks members to write about their faith, their church and favourite Bible passages.
The Daily Telegraph
Getting to know someone in the Biblical sense has just got easier - all you need do is employ a quick flick of your mouse and exchange your favourite piece from the scriptures.
The Guardian
Thousands of single Christians are logging on to become part of a world wide flock where true love and romance could be just a web page away.
People could meet who are in the same church, but have never spoken to each other before.
The Sunday Telegraph
Julie and Richard Turner from Dunblane owe their happiness to Christian Connection: “I would definitely recommend other people to try it, I feel really blessed.”
The Sunday Post
Christian Connection has also featured in the Evening Standard, the Irish Independent, and the Belfast Evening Telegraph.
TV and Radio
Christian Connection has also featured in many local radio stations across the UK.
Church and Christian Media
Christian Connection has featured regularly in the Christian media including:
- Church Times
- Third Way
- Church of England Newspaper
- Baptist Times
- The Universe
- Idea
- Woman Alive
- The Tablet
- Ship of Fools
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