All posts by Anya Briggs

Anya is a thinker and blogger who loves creativity, people who think differently, theology, painting, laughing with friends, exploring other countries and British humour. With a recent move from London to Manchester, a husband who has been ‘dog collared’ and a baby too, she feels very much at the start of an exciting/scary adventure.

The happiness lie

// If happiness is the end-goal, most of us are failing.

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The Church has hurt a lot of people

// "Whether we like it or not, we need other Christians."

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When gender equality goes too far

// "With every big, historical movement comes the danger that we will swing too far to the other extreme, tipping the...

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Are we getting the Gospel wrong?

// "The gospel is this an amazing tapestry, woven together throughout the whole Bible and beyond."

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God: The Awkward Silence

// "Being a Christian is not about waiting for that next time we ‘get’ God and see his bigger plan. Yes,...

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Why I’ll never be a Pinterest mum

// "I wonder if a lot of our culture hasn’t become about reaching a bar that we can’t possibly reach. I...

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How we rob ourselves of happiness

// "The UK has been ranked 16th in the world’s happiness index (2013), but is among the highest in opportunity and...

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Introversion: the elephant in the room

// There’s an ‘elephant in the room’ that’s been intruding on Western social culture for a while now, and let’s not...

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Myth 8: ‘If I’m unable to work in a paid job, I’m not contributing to society’

// We have even begun to use business words to talk about the Church: ‘networking’, ‘strategy’, ‘vision’, ‘cell groups’.

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Busyness: the Ferrari of the Christian world

// What do Ferraris, Jimmy Choos and facelifts have in common?

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