Modern news, myopia and me, me, me

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

Written by Tim Wyatt

Who do you think you are?

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

Written by threads

When your foster kids arrive by police car

// Would you allow your dreams to be big enough to give a home to the children nobody else dreams of?

Written by Pat Copeland

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

Shawshank adoption

// Why is it unusual for our churches to even mention our adoption into God’s family, let alone our mandate to care for the vulnerable?

Written by Krish Kandiah

Whose care do care-leavers leave?

// Children weren’t created to be cared for by institutions; they were designed for family.

Written by Joe McSharry

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

We are not a loan

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

Written by David Barclay

The importance of dreaming

// What can we do to see our dreams become reality?

Written by Sam Moore

We’ve got the whole world in our hands

// As I backpacked through Europe, I had an overwhelming sense that the world is indeed in God’s hands, but I also felt an urgent sense of responsibility.

Written by Elisa Pike

No greater love than donating blood

// Are you one of the four per cent?

Written by Oli Preston

So you’ve voted, now what?

// Political engagement isn't just for election time.

Written by Ruth Clements

How Dispatches burst my bubble

// I don't know what to do, but evil cannot win.

Written by Ruth Clements

Sunday shopping: the pursuit of happiness

// Longer working hours, more money and encouraging consumerism might not be the best way to build strong communities, stable families...

Written by Andy Tilsley

Escape from ISIS

// Dispatches, 'Escape from ISIS' airs tonight at 10pm on Channel 4.

Written by Gillian Straine

Malala and wishing your lot was smaller

// This week, one of the most influential teenagers of our time celebrated her 18th birthday. I wonder if Malala sometimes...

Written by Phoebe Thompson

Assist suicide, eradicate suffering?

// Why the Marris Bill frightens the life out of me.

Written by Haydon Spenceley

On the other side of the fence: Jesus at Pride

// Facebook turned rainbow-coloured this weekend...

Written by Claire Jones

The H word

// How fear of being labelled a hater is affecting expression of, and difference of opinion.

Written by Annie Carter

The Pope and the end of the world

// It’s been a big week in planetary-doom news...

Written by Emily Sturgess