Don’t call me beautiful on my wedding day

// Like almost every other bride, I’ve been seduced by the lie that I have to look perfect in my wedding...

Written by Ruth Mawhinney

Video: What’s hot?

// What's hot? What's attractive? What's beautiful? Clearly it's all in the eye of the beholder. We took to the streets...

Written by threads

On freedom and armpit hair

// The average woman shaves 7,718 times in her life for an average of 10.9 minutes a-go.

Written by Mim Skinner

The sidebar of shame

// You didn’t mean to go there. The site just lured you in. Soon you’re clicking away frantically trying to get...

Written by Ruth Garner

3 terrible attitudes to hotness that have no place in a smart person’s mind

// Yes, the emphasis our society puts on beauty is disproportionate, but let's not throw the babes out with the bathwater.

Written by Jonty Langley

Why the media’s male stereotyping isn’t that big a deal

// Role models aren’t only found within scripted scenes squeezed into 20 minutes of screen time.

Written by Jonathan Sherwin

Comedy identity: making peace with the church circuit

// I left New Wine feeling like the week had been the absolute highlight of my career. And if you’d told...

Written by Andy Kind

New Horizon – A better way: for relationships

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Written by threads

Real men don’t drink fruit tea

// Carl Beech kicks off his all-male guest editor week with a challenge to all of us to realise that we...

Written by Carl Beech

When and where to find threads at Greenbelt…

// We're excited to announce that we're curating 10 talks at Greenbelt Festival next week.

Written by threads

Standing out in a crowd full of attention-seekers

// We don’t have to try to be any bigger, cleverer or more in-yer-face than we are.

Written by Ed Mayhew

Our most popular posts *ever* – #threadsis1

// It's our birthday! And to celebrate turning one this weekend, we have revisited our most popular stories over the past...

Written by threads

Testimony of a failed agnostic

// Its astounding reality bursts out of the manger scene, triumphantly calling from the empty cross on the altar.

Written by Hannah Malcolm

Confessions of a former 29-year-old virgin

// How many of us are ashamed to articulate the words ‘I am waiting until marriage’?

Written by Kemi Bamgbose

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’.

Written by Anya Briggs

Prayer: My dirty little secret

// God seems to choose, every day, not to answer prayers.

Written by Jonty Langley

10 things single people wish married people wouldn’t say…

// Dear lovely-married-Christian-people, you may think you're being empathetic and encouraging when you dish out these crackers to your single friends....

Written by Kate Wharton

Reframing conversations

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Written by David Smyth

Church: welcome to the party

// Kate Bottley, aka the 'Viral Vicar', on church, dancing and inviting people to join the fun.

Written by Kate Bottley

A better way: to do politics

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Written by threads