Racism: more than just the n-word

// "While reciting a nursery rhyme doesn’t make you a racist, we all know that a word is never ‘just’ a...

Written by Tomi Ajayi

UK: the most sexist country in the world?

// What Rashida Manjoo didn't say...

Written by Hannah Mudge

Gwyneth, Chris and conscious uncoupling

// "No matter how it is euphemistically defined, the stark sadness of divorce cannot be masked by redefining it as ‘conscious...

Written by Annie Carter

Activism and narcissism and the ‘no make-up selfie’

// "If going out without make-up is a biggie for you and you’ve braved it this week, then truly and unsarcastically,...

Written by Mim Skinner

The whole truth and nothing but the truth

// I often imagine the courts of law as a biblical representation of judgement day in the next life.

Written by Lizzy Millar

5 thoughts on women in church leadership

// "All of you – please, please, please be nice when you talk about this. I don't care how wrong you...

Written by Hannah Malcolm

When girls go missing

// "Why were these two girls collateral for such a large sum of money? Why does an already tragic tale of...

Written by Felicity Cowling

What are you working for?

// "Throughout the 1990s the word ‘incentivise’ appeared 449 times in major newspapers. In just two years, 2010-11, it appeared 5,885...

Written by Mark Sampson

Simply because I am a girl

// It’s a time for men and women to speak up with and for the generation of silenced, oppressed, unloved, unseen,...

Written by Claire Rush

Finding out I’m faulty

// "I know that God knew I would be like this and would see me through it. But I feel like...

Written by Charis Duckworth

Lead the change: when campaigning is not enough

// There comes a time when yelling from the sidelines becomes irresponsible, when campaigning looks more like complacency.

Written by Danny Webster

UK floods: maybe it’s karma

// It's time we learned our lesson.

Written by Joe Ware

The Wolf of Wall Street

// "Some have criticised The Wolf of Wall Street for glamorising the lifestyle of these money-grubbing conmen, but such critics are...

Written by Peter Marsay

A belated happy birthday Facebook – from someone who never joined

// "I concluded early on that I wanted to cultivate friendships in the real world and the friends I had who...

Written by Annie Carter

Recreation, selfies and being known: happy birthday Facebook

// "And yet, Facebook is social. It may be designed to revolve around me but it really does engender community."

Written by Danny Webster

God and politics?

// "The age old maxim that faith and politics don't mix is perhaps the only way to keep your hands clean...

Written by Nicola Hulks

To do or not to do

// "I was no longer ‘achieving’ - not in the world’s eyes anyway. I had no answer to the question “what...

Written by Katie Fry

Why MPs deserve more money

// Are our elected representatives worth the pay increase?

Written by Richard Woodall

Have we lost the art of neighbourliness?

// It is our job as Christians to be those annoying neighbours who bake cookies like ‘desperate housewives’, coo over the...

Written by Becky Steed

Nelson Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”

// What’s more remarkable is that not only was hatred absent, but love was present.

Written by Karen Webber