Alt-J: An Awesome Wave wins Mercury Music Prize

// Combining diverse musical styles to create what some have awkwardly named ‘folk-step’, it’s probably more accurate to class Alt-J as...

Written by Lynda Davies

A grey area

// While we were getting our collective knickers in a twist, others were casting theirs aside with abandon. Christian viewpoints once...

Written by Vicky Walker

Worship who?

// The amount of energy we put into sustaining a cyclical pattern of meetings, worship sets and ultimately a wider Christian...

Written by Dave Griffiths

Satan’s light party: 5 ghoulishly weak arguments against Halloween

// If you’re reading this, you’re (hopefully) still alive. That makes you one of a few survivors. May God have mercy...

Written by Jonty Langley

Moustaches, freedom and transatlantic translation

// Angeline Liles brings us her pick of the week...

Written by Angeline Liles

A Year of Biblical Womanhood

// In defence of Rachel Held Evans...

Written by Chine McDonald

Redefining ‘pro-life’, pencil collecting and turny buttons that lie

// Joe Ware brings us his pick of the week...

Written by Joe Ware

Why do we watch James Bond?

// Bond is not a teacher, nor are his films parables. We watch them because they are enormous fun.

Written by Alex Baker

Just kidding

// If you tell someone you have aspirations to be a stand-up comedian, they may laugh in your face. But that's...

Written by Andrew Horton

Live Review: Dry The River

// The Junction, Cambridge, 16th October 2012.

Written by Angeline Liles

Book covers, hypocrisy and folk on a boat

// Dan Preston brings us his pick of the week...

Written by Dan Preston

Harvest time

// We are told that there will be an ultimate harvest one day when Christ returns. We may be surprised at...

Written by Luke Aylen

Scoring Looper

// The Hollywood blockbuster’s percussion specialist talks guns, drainpipes and other instruments.

Written by Charis Gibson

A Theology of Florence & the Machine’s Ceremonials

// A suffocating sense of traditions, old religion and an exploration of the extra-material world is interwoven with the ever-present graveyards...

Written by Angeline Liles

Mumford & Sons: Babel

// If you’re looking for radical progression from the energetic foot-stompery and opulent lyricism of their previous work, I’d advise you...

Written by Angeline Liles

Luke Sital-Singh – Fail For You

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Written by Nathan Jones

Arnold Schwarzenegger, The Promise, and Marmite

// Joe Ware brings us his pick of the week...

Written by Joe Ware

No more page three

// I have a sex drive. I’m a red-blooded male, so what do you expect?

Written by Carl Beech

Voices of the future

// A smorgasbord of up-and-coming musicians from Bastille to King Charles.

Written by Angeline Liles

Pink wigs, theatrical hats and gold bikinis

// From The Hunger Games to Star Trek, sci-fi's love affair with outlandish fashion.

Written by Jenny Hulme