We must #PrayForParis, but what about IS?

// What the Vicar of Baghdad can teach us in light of the recent atrocities in Paris

Written by Amaris Cole

Public leadership: It began with love

// CREATION · The first post of our week-long series by the Public Leadership team goes back to the start.

Written by Danny Webster

5 steps to making a bright idea come to life

// Yes, you've had a great idea - but where to now?

Written by Alex Cameron

Modern news, myopia and me, me, me

// Why our tendency to make the news about us needs to change.

Written by Tim Wyatt

Confession

// What happens when a friend's joy cuts you to the core?

Written by Sheila Matthews

Girl about town’s Halloween nightmare

// She's back with a bang! (Sorry)

Written by Girl About Town

Who do you think you are?

// Read the One People Commission's findings on how Millennials engage with their faith.

Written by threads

Family is a factory of hope

// Every 22 minutes a child in the UK is taken into care. That is desperately sad.

Written by Phil Green

Why aren’t millennials reading the Bible?

// To kick off our week-long series celebrating the NIV's 50th anniversary, guest curator, Becky Miles suggests three reasons for the low levels of engagement with scripture.

Written by Becky Miles

I’m not going to be a history-maker

// What exactly does it mean to do ‘amazing things for God’?

Written by David Binder

Confident apologetics  

// Christians need to be unafraid of science and unafraid to let it inform our faith.

Written by Gillian Straine

We are not a loan

// People power: how local churches are taking on payday lenders – and winning

Written by David Barclay

We have to talk about our future

// Acceptance and welcome aren’t real if they depend on one fitting into a culture-shaped box.

Written by Dave Magill

Why I was wrong about writing off Giles Fraser

// Disagreement shouldn't mean dismissal

Written by Tim Wyatt

5 ways to help a friend with mental illness

// It can be a little scary trying to pick the right thing to say, so here's some advice from Rachael Newham from Think Twice.

Written by Rachael Newham

Barely human

// At some point in the future, we’ll forget our common humanity and will return to what we know best - ourselves.

Written by Matt White

Having my roots done

// In the midst of newness, development or change, not everything we leave behind stays behind.

Written by Matt White

So you have a dream. Now what?

// As we celebrate the 52nd anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have A Dream speech, here are six thoughts...

Written by Gemma Brown

A night at the Village Vanguard

// How a night at New York's most famous jazz bar helped me understand the diversity and unity in the Church.

Written by Stu Bothwell

When God doesn’t deliver

// I want a faith that says even if He does not deliver us, God has not and will not desert...

Written by Luke Briggs