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// Why I've chosen to adopt, not give birth.

Written by Amy Burns

We’re all activists here

// Women have always been in the business of quietly following the dangerous, table-turning ways of Jesus.

Written by Naomi Williams

Rest is for losers

// In a world that struggles to stop, is it better to be a loser than a winner?

Written by Andy Tilsley

Confession

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

Written by Sheila Matthews

Awkward

// It's National Fertility Awareness Week, and today we ask why infertility is so hard to talk about?

Written by Sheila Matthews

Girl about town’s Halloween nightmare

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

Written by Girl About Town

He knows you

// He knows every detail and nanosecond of your existence - every atom, molecule, skin cell, and ligament.

Written by Sheridan Voysey

A way forward with friends who’ve lost faith

// There's a story about Saint Therese of Liseux that puzzles and warms me.

Written by Joel Leakey

What if we’re not all meant to save the world after all?

// Sometimes the pursuit of a ‘meaningful’ career can become as narrow-minded and limiting as the pursuit of success.

Written by Christine Gilland

Fostering at 30

// Laura and her husband decided to become foster parents. They are only 30 years of age. Here's what they've learned so far.

Written by Laura

Holy singleness

// When God visits earth He comes as a single man. That alone blesses singleness with divine dignity.

Written by Sheridan Voysey

Everyday faith after festivals end

// As an organiser of a Christian festival, I am the first to say that our lives shouldn’t just be shaped by a one-time event.

Written by Sarah Yardley

Why the Bible has power if we’ll let it

// We can’t expect just to fit the Bible into our lives. Instead, I choose to fit my life, my story, into the far bigger story of the Bible.

Written by Dave Criddle

The traveller’s Bible

// The fourth post in our NIV50 series looks at how the Bible is true for every human on earth.

Written by Jo Trickey

When your booty and thong are inappropriate

// A reflection on the importance of language.

Written by Stephen Cave

Putting politics in its place

// Moving beyond issues and ideologies, what does the Bible have to say about Christians in society?

Written by James Lee

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

On submitting to leadership

// Submission is counter-cultural to Western ideals of self and achievement. But this is a crucial part of 'dying to self'.

Written by Nick Harris

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